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Holly Guise ❄️
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Iñupiaq Alaska Native historian. Tries to write. Oral historian- check out ww2alaska.com. Author of: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/ ask your library to order a copy!
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · Jun 26
Full audience tonight at Title Wave Books- thank you Anchorage!

A special elder came who I interviewed for the book- who was born at the Minidoka Camp during WWII, my mapmaker for the book came, my mom with my kids, & some friends from high school
hollyguise.bsky.social Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · Jun 26
We’re about to start! Book talk of Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II at Title Wave Books in Anchorage!
Author standing by the book stand for Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II. Oranges and cookies for guests
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I learned a ton from @hollyguise.bsky.social ‘s excellent Alaska Native Resilience. Highly recommend. 🗃️
hollyguise.bsky.social Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 20h
Quyaana @amyjay401.bsky.social for the thoughtful review!🗃️

“Rather, it is the importance of her argument that brings us to the work’s third lesson for educators – Native peoples have never been passive victims of American colonization.”

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View of Review - Holly Miowak Guise. Alaska Native Resilience- Voices from World War II.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Quyaana @amyjay401.bsky.social for the thoughtful review!🗃️

“Rather, it is the importance of her argument that brings us to the work’s third lesson for educators – Native peoples have never been passive victims of American colonization.”

openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghist...
View of Review - Holly Miowak Guise. Alaska Native Resilience- Voices from World War II.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🗃️ The most recent issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods is now live!

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Rd about food & the Byzantine Empire, public history, the Crusades & RTTP, & "A History of Your Day" activity (@thetattooedprof.bsky.social).

Also: read teaching reviews on...
Vol. 50 No. 1 | Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
hollyguise.bsky.social
Prepping for my book talk at UH Manoa History Department today at 1:30pm HST!
Millennial Native woman scholar with peace sign and sunglasses with the UH Manoa background of a building and palm trees
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Thank you Moriah and @nyswi.bsky.social for this conversation!

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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Hi all! Nice time to support Native writers during Native American Heritage Month with 40% off my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II when you order through UW Press website and use the code WINTER25

Quyaana!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Hi #Skystorians!

I have a book talk at the University of Hawaii Manoa this Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30pm- hope to see you there!

Happy Native American Heritage Month!

🗃️
Flyer for a book talk oral history methods and making Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30 Sakamaki A201 University of Hawaii Manoa. Includes a photo of the author, a millennial Alaska Native woman smiling wearing a white sleeveless button up, and the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience which has a vintage 1940s photo of the Alaska Territorial Guard marching
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Hi #Skystorians!

I have a book talk at the University of Hawaii Manoa this Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30pm- hope to see you there!

Happy Native American Heritage Month!

🗃️
Flyer for a book talk oral history methods and making Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30 Sakamaki A201 University of Hawaii Manoa. Includes a photo of the author, a millennial Alaska Native woman smiling wearing a white sleeveless button up, and the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience which has a vintage 1940s photo of the Alaska Territorial Guard marching
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Looking forward to my book talk next week at the University of Hawaii Manoa! 1:30pm Nov 19 Sakamaki A201

Oral history methods, Alaska Native history, & community research 🗃️

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
hollyguise.bsky.social Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 15d
Who is Alaskan and visiting Oahu? Me!

Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
Flyer for a book talk oral history methods and making Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30 Sakamaki A201 University of Hawaii Manoa. Includes a photo of the author, a millennial Alaska Native woman smiling wearing a white sleeveless button up, and the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience which has a vintage 1940s photo of the Alaska Territorial Guard marching
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I’m feeling very nostalgic for the penny right now and I’m hoping it’s not really the end of this coin

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
US Mint says it has stamped its last penny, a historic end for a humble coin
The Treasury Department said the last pennies were stamped with a special omega mark and will not go into circulation.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California

Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!

uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
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November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This is a really fantastic resource to see what historians are up to including podcasts & publications 🗃️
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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Who is Alaskan and visiting Oahu? Me!

Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
Flyer for a book talk oral history methods and making Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30 Sakamaki A201 University of Hawaii Manoa. Includes a photo of the author, a millennial Alaska Native woman smiling wearing a white sleeveless button up, and the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience which has a vintage 1940s photo of the Alaska Territorial Guard marching
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
hollyguise.bsky.social
Who is Alaskan and visiting Oahu? Me!

Hello- I have a book talk for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II at the Univesity of Hawaii Manoa Nov 19 1:30pm arranged by fantastic scholar Noah Dolim! Please come- let’s see some Alaska representation there too if you’re on Oahu 🗃️
Flyer for a book talk oral history methods and making Alaska Native Resilience Voices from World War II Wednesday Nov 19 at 1:30 Sakamaki A201 University of Hawaii Manoa. Includes a photo of the author, a millennial Alaska Native woman smiling wearing a white sleeveless button up, and the cover of the book Alaska Native Resilience which has a vintage 1940s photo of the Alaska Territorial Guard marching
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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For Native American Heritage Month, Indigenous authors, scholars, and historians recommend five books that center Native voices and experiences. Find the reading list on our blog:
Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
uwpressblog.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
hollyguise.bsky.social
Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California

Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!

uwpressblog.com/2025/11/04/f...
Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month
Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …
uwpressblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
hollyguise.bsky.social
Halloween sugar cookies- impulse buy of the funny face cake decorations
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
Sugar cookies, homemade, iced like white ghosts with eyes and sprinkles and orange pumpkins with monster faces, hand in background holding drying rack
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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👉”In this new account, he describes his flight from Bethel to Anchorage in a military transport plane, reuniting with his friends, family, and dog, & the early stages of settling into an environment that feels deeply foreign even if it’s within the same state”

Typhoon

www.kyuk.org/arts-culture...
'A whole new concrete jungle': A typhoon evacuee lands in urban Alaska
Jeron Joseph, an evacuee from Kwigillingok, shares an account of adjusting to displacement in Anchorage.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I see familiar faces here!

Also- #AlaskaNativeResilience is 40% off using the code and link through @uwapress.uw.edu here through Oct 31!
uwapress.uw.edu University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Oct 20
That's a wrap for #WHA2025! Big thanks to the Western History Association and everyone who came by our booth. A reminder for all WHA members: our 40% off conference discount code, WWHA25, is valid through October 31!

Browse and save on books in #WesternHistory: uwapress.uw.edu/western-hist...
Author Caitlin Keliiaa showing off her book, Refusing Settler Domesticity, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Coll Thrush showing off his book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Adrian De Leon showing off his forthcoming book, Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Holly Miowak Guise smiling while displaying three framed award certificates for her book, Alaska Native Resilience, at the Western History Association Conference.
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
hollyguise.bsky.social
I see familiar faces here!

Also- #AlaskaNativeResilience is 40% off using the code and link through @uwapress.uw.edu here through Oct 31!
uwapress.uw.edu University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · Oct 20
That's a wrap for #WHA2025! Big thanks to the Western History Association and everyone who came by our booth. A reminder for all WHA members: our 40% off conference discount code, WWHA25, is valid through October 31!

Browse and save on books in #WesternHistory: uwapress.uw.edu/western-hist...
Author Caitlin Keliiaa showing off her book, Refusing Settler Domesticity, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Coll Thrush showing off his book, Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Adrian De Leon showing off his forthcoming book, Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland, at the University of Washington Press booth. Additional books in western history are on display behind. Author Holly Miowak Guise smiling while displaying three framed award certificates for her book, Alaska Native Resilience, at the Western History Association Conference.
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
hollyguise.bsky.social
“An informal Facebook poll in March about NANA's ICE contracts drew responses from around 100 shareholders, the majority of whom disapproved of the work.”

Many Alaska Natives oppose ICE contracts conflicting with what the Alaska Native Corporations are doing

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Lucrative ICE detention centers bring money — and anger — to an Alaska Native community — Alaska Public Media
NANA Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump’s deportation machinery makes a mockery of that.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I’m gonna share some joyous news- my Grandma Betty, from Unalakleet, turned 99 years old. My mom & aunts had a party for her in Anchorage
Elder grandma holding an empty Coca Cola bottle, wearing a cute pink sweater with hearts, sitting at a wooden table in front of three different types of cake and yellow roses and purple orchids.
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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“Some time after sunrise, maybe 10 a.m., the water receded…we could see the impression in the tundra where the boardwalk used to be — it had floated about eight feet over.”

A really important read about the typhoon, Indigenous displacement from climate, & survival 🗃️

www.kyuk.org/arts-culture...
An ‘orchestra from Hell’: A firsthand account of the Halong flood
Jeron Joseph, a survivor from Kwigillingok, tells his story.
www.kyuk.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Let's not forgive Kristi Noem for cancelling the 2025 FEMA Tribal Nations Training Week.
I had the privilege of attending last year and it was a fantastic experience!
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM