Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Summer Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter

• Career Opportunities
• Rural Human Services Program Participants
• 2025 Firefighting Season Begins
• VPSO Program
• Exploring Energy from the Ocean’s Waves
• Chugach Regional Writers – Sand by Nancy Yeaton
• Community Submission
• Chugachmiut Regional Health Center Grand Opening
• Health Services Division News
• Realty Department Services
• Employee Spotlights

About the Cover: Chugachmiut Board Members Nanci Robart, Fran Norman (Chair), and Arne Hatch joined us for the grand opening of the Chugachmiut Regional Health Center in Seward (Qutekcak). Thank you to everyone who joined us in Seward on April 21. Photo by Angela Gonzalez.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

View previous editions here.

Chugachmiut Nupuat Newsletter – Recent Editions

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Winter Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter

• Career Opportunities
• Chugach Regional Writers
• Christmas Card Design Contest Winners
• Community Spotlight – Nicole Norman
• FCC Licenses for Port Graham and Nanwalek
• Fire Crew Tree Cookies
• Fred Meyer Community Rewards
• Health Services Division News
• Jason Williams Appointment
• Mark Hiratsuka Receives ILI Award
• Nunaka Wins an Anthem Award
• Realty Hosted Trust Manager’s Meeting
• Scholarship and Vocational Support

About the Cover: Quyanaa to everyone who joined us for the Chenega Health Fair in October! This fall, we enjoyed connecting with community members at health fairs in Nanwalek and Chenega. Photo by Angela Gonzalez.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org. To submit ideas, articles, stories, poetry, and pictures for use in the Nupuat, please email media@Chugachmiut.org. Call for submissions.

View previous editions here.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

Here are some recently published editions:

2025

• Summer 2025
• Spring 2025

2024

• Winter 2024
• Fall 2024
• Summer 2024
• Spring 2024

2023

• Winter 2023
• Fall 2023
• Summer 2023
• Spring 2023

2022

• Summer 2022
• Spring 2022
• Winter 2022

2021

• Fall 2021
• Summer 2021
• Spring 2021
• Winter 2021

2020

• Fall 2020
• Summer 2020
• Spring 2020

2019

• Winter 2019
• Fall 2019
• Summer 2019
• Spring 2019

2018

• Winter 2018
• Fall 2018
• Summer 2018
• Spring 2018

To submit ideas, articles, stories, poetry, and pictures for use in the Nupuat, please email media@Chugachmiut.org along with a short bio of yourself. Call for submissions.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Fall Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Fall Edition

• Career Opportunities
• Youth Summer Camps
• Traditional Qayaq Dedication Ceremony
• Chugachmiut Heritage Archive Opportunity
• Chugachmiut Birth to 5 Head Start Program
• Chugachmiut Scholarship Opportunity
• Housing Improvement Program
• Poem – “No Name Mountains” by Gail Evanoff
• Health Services Division News
• Employee Spotlights – Brent S. Harmon and Sheila Lowe
• Christmas Card Design Contest

About the Cover: Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation hosted summer camps with Accessing Choices in Education (ACE), a program that allows us to provide educational opportunities for students in our communities that are Alaska Native to meet their educational goals. The Chugachmiut Youth Summit was held in July in Anchorage where 12 youth experienced and practiced Sugpiaq language, traditional culture through Elders, recognized experts, through games, crafts, media, models, art, sea life, and plants. Here they are visiting the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Front row (left to right): Damian George, Rhoda Moonin, Ephimia Moonin-Wilson, Emma Tanape, and Imya Hernandez. 2nd row (left to right): Benjamin Kvasnikoff, Kenji Simmons, Julianne Michener, and Trinity Vlasoff. 3rd row (left to right): Mackinley Greene, Kayonte Simmons, Ashton Meganack, Trinity Vlasoff, Juanita Wood, Bella Velez, and Nancy Yeaton. Back row (far right): Iverson Moonin.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

View previous editions here.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Summer Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Summer Edition

• Career Opportunities
• Step Challenge
• Health Fairs
• Recovery Camp
• Fire and Forestry Programs Update
• Education
• Realty – Probate Process
• Chugachmiut Regional Health Center Groundbreaking
• Qutekcak Native Tribe Celebration
• Tatitlek Cultural Exchange
• Qutekcak Native Tribe Technology Upgrades
• Boating Safety
• Nunaka Game App Released
• Finance Team Spotlight
• Employee Spotlight – John H. Yakanak, Jr.

About the Cover: Chugachmiut board members Larry Evanoff, Vice Chair, Fran Norman, Chair, and Arne Hatch, Director break ground for the Chugachmiut Regional Health Center on June 3 in Qutekcak (Seward). Chugachmiut has operated the North Star Health Clinic since 1987 in Seward but, by January 2025, the 19,475 square-foot Chugachmiut Regional Health Clinic will be constructed and operating. The Center will serve as Chugachmiut’s regional medical hub providing medical, dental, and behavioral health services for Alaskans in medically underserved areas within our region. Photo by Mackenzie Banbury.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.

Chugachmiut’s Nupuat Newsletter Spring Edition is available!

Topics in the Nupuat Newsletter – Spring Edition

• Career Opportunities
• Chugachmiut Heritage Archives
• Spotlight on Dolly Wiles of Qutekcak Native Tribe
• Nanwalek NYO Team
• Accessing Choices in Education (ACE) Program Support
• Nanwalek Head Start Internet Upgrade
• Service Booklets
• Realty Department
• Scholarship Opportunity & NET Program
• Grants Team
• Heritage Preservation Program – Nanwalek Sugpiak Regalia Project
• Health Services Division News
• Graduate Highlights
• Denali Wildland Fire Module Crew

About the Cover: Chugachmiut Elders and community members visited the Ethnological Museum of Berlin in Germany. The Elders and community members included William Smith of Valdez, Pamela Smith of Cordova, Eric Clock of Seward, Brandon Moonin of Tatitlek, Deborah McMullen of Port Graham, Vincent Evans of Nanwalek, and John Johnson and Tatianna Turner from Chugach Alaska Corporation. They were engaging with artifacts that were taken from the Chugachmiut communities in the late 19th century and documenting important cultural knowledge and stories.

Nupuat is a quarterly publication of Chugachmiut, the tribal not-for-profit organization serving the Alaska Native peoples of the Chugach Region. If you need to update your mailing address, please email us at media@chugachmiut.org.