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Trickster Times: In-person AFN and Elders & Youth? We love to see it!

AFN and Elders & Youth are already so much fun this year! Here's our first Trickster Times video with a partial re-cap of all the goodness we witnessed at Elders & Youth. We only say partial, because there is just so much happening this week! Big shout out to First Alaskans Institute for creating this critical convening for our communities to come together. And tune in for a peak at some of the awesome vendors at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention.

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A bright new mural builds Indigenous Joy on Lower Tanana Dene lands

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day — we are celebrating the joy of community art creation and representation.

The art wall at the Native Movement Fairbanks office features Minto elder Vernell Titus and the knowledge she shared this summer with young people at the Nenana culture camp. The mural text reads, "What the hands do, the heart learns."

Gratitude to everyone who helped create and celebrate — an expression of Indigenous joy today and every day — Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Gratitude for the collaboration between Native Movement, NDNCollective, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition, and so many community members!

Join us!

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EVENT: Fairbanks Community Mural Project Celebration

Please join us Tuesday Sept. 13th, 12:00PM in Fairbanks at 60 Hall St. to celebrate the creation of our first community mural project as we recognize the artists, and featured community members including local elder Vernell Titus, local Native youth, and Native Movement staff leader, Naawieyaa Tagaban (Lingit). There will be food, hot drinks, and a community blessing led by our community organizers.

The photographs used in this mural were taken by Native Movement staff photographer Jeff Chen. The mural installation was a collaboration between Native Movement, Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition, and NDN Collective. The featured phrase – “What the hands do, the heart learns” – is a principle of the organization Movement Generation.

The mural focuses on large photographs taken during the recent Nenana Youth Culture Camp in July and was in collaboration of many hands in our community. There will be a performance by a local drumming group with song and prayer to bless the collective effort that went into the creation of this prominent art piece at the intersection of Wendell Ave and Hall St. across from the Morris Thompson Cultural Center.

This is the first phase of a collaborative community project and we want you to be involved! Submit to our interest form here.

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Nughelnik: Remembering Forward : Conference May 20-22

The Alaska Just Transition Collective is excited to announce the second Just Transition Summit on May 20th-22nd, 2022 on Dena'ina Land in Anchorage, Alaska.

Nughelnik: Remembering Forward defines and explores collective healing through the lens of a Just Transition. We look forward to sharing space, celebrating togetherness, and grounding ourselves in our vision for a just path forward once again.

Nughelnik is a Dena'ina phrase that means "It is remembered within us". Thank you to Joel Issak & Helen Dick for this translation.

Follow along at justtransitionak.org for more updates, announcements, and application details

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