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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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Okay I’ll share one more pic from before I put the top on!
Blueberry blackberry pie dish with no top, dolloped with about two tablespoons of cold unsalted butter
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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How it started v how it’s going

Blueberry blackberry pie- the right balance of sweet

#bakingsky #pie #dessertsky
Blueberry blackberry pie with cookie cutter pie top crust made of homemade pie crust shaped like flowers stars and autumn leaf bands. Hand on side of the red pie dish Baked blueberry blackberry pie in a red scalloped pie dish with cookie cutter pie topping shaped like stars, autumn leaf bands, and tiny flowers. Pie cooling on stovetop
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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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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!

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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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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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My favorites are the cupcake-shaped sugar cookies
Cupcake shaped sugar cookies with orange lookalike wrapper- and white frosting with Halloween black orange and white sprinkles
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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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I have a version of this photo in my book #AlaskaNativeResilience-
My Grandma Betty is the young mother (far right) holding my Aunt Rose or Uncle Arlie in the late 1940s. She’s standing next to her mother Martha, her grandmother Miowak (my namesake), & her great grandmother Kakarak. 5 generations
Vintage photo from the 1940s showing five generations of Inupiat women from Unalakleet in my family. Each is wearing a parka with different ornamentation
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 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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I had an awesome time at the awards ceremony and walking up for every award with Larin McLaughlin, an incredibly supportive, encouraging, and phenomenal editor @uwapress.uw.edu

Quyaana- Thank you Larin for being with me every stage of publication!
Larin and Holly, both smiling, dressed up in green button-up and a blue embroidered dress, arm in arm. Conference tables and attendees in the background
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Had a blast at WHA and catching up with amazing emcee Sarah Whitt!! Representing Native women historians!
Two Native women scholars and historians, both smiling. Sarah Whitt wearing lovely turquoise jewelry a black dress, Holly Miowak Guise wearing blue embroidered dress and ivory. Conferences background with chairs and people from WHA conference
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Accepted 3(!!) book awards for #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II published by @uwapress.uw.edu at the Western History Association conference in Albuquerque!! Quyaana for reading, enjoying, learning from, and supporting this book with voices from Alaska Native elders
Author Holly Miowak Guise, an Inupiaq Alaska Native woman, light brown hair, smiling, wearing a blue flower embroidered dress and ivory necklace and bracelets holding three awards from the WHA conference. Background conference at the ABQ convention center
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Wish I was at Alaska Federation of Natives this week too! My friend Jayme sent me this familiar face screenshot (that’s me!)

I was planning to bring my kids to AFN & I rerouted my flight to ABQ for the Western History Association conference to accept the book awards for #AlaskaNativeResilience
Screen photo at AFN in Anchorage with coverage by Native America Calling, includes a photo of the author, Holly Guise with elder and WWII Inupiaq veteran Holger Jorgy Jorgensen.
October 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Can’t believe I’m sharing this- my book #AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II by @uwapress.uw.edu has received the Athearn Book Prize given annually for a published book on the twentieth-century American West! Quyaana!

#Alaska wartime history #AlaskaNatives
#Alaskasky #historiansky
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Screenshot from the Western history association Instagram page showing book awards including the author Holly Miowak Guise, a Native woman with brown hair and an Inuit ivory necklace, with the caption Robert C Athearn Award for Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Excited to share that my book #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II has received the John C. Ewers Book Award for the best published book on the North American Indian Ethnohistory

Quyaana!! Thrilled to have Alaska Native history in conversation with Native American history! 🗃️
Screenshot of the Western History Association Instagram page with the list of award winners including the John C. Ewers Book Award given annually for the best published book on the North American (including Mexico) Indian Ethnohistory with a photo of the author- Holly Guise- brown hair white shirt while smiling. Images of other authors included and conference info on Albuquerque October 2025.
October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Mummy brownies for the gymnastics meet bake sale! 2 baker’s dozen dropped off plus one more baker’s dozen for home 😋
Mummy brownies- chocolate brownie with vanilla buttercream frosting, two candy googly eyes, paper plates on table in the background
October 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Sharing some exciting news

#AlaskaNativeResilience: Voices from World War II (my book!) published by @uwapress.uw.edu received the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on military history of the frontier and western North America!

#AKhistory, #Nativehistory, & #militarization
Screenshot of the Western History Association Instagram page with award winners including the author Holly Miowak Guise for the Robert M Utely Prize. Photo of the author included and announcement on the conference in Albuquerque this coming week, mid October 2025
October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Yes- homemade lemon bars. A perfect afterschool snack, tart + sweet
Hand holding four square and rectangle lemon bars dusted with powdered sugar. Dinosaur bowl and grass in the background
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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But I don’t want to clean up I just want to eat the cookies
Zoom out showing all the cookie dishes from decorating the food coloring and sprinkles, lots of little Mickey Mouse Halloween plates and butter knives, next to a tray of frosted cookies
September 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Before and After

Autumn sugar cookies baked on a Saturday
Sugar cookies cooling on a rack on the counter- shaped like pumpkins, flowers, and stars. Frosted sugar cookies shaped like pumpkins, stars, flowers. A few color variations with blue, orange, yellow, white, and green sprinkles. All sitting on a bamboo porcelain tray on a wooden table
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Reading Haruki Murakami’s: Kafka on the Shore

An engaging read, imaginative, and artfully skips between the past and present
Book cover of Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore- a teenage boy with glasses reflecting waves or mountains. Hand holding the book, grass in the background
August 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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If you’re in or near Flagstaff, Arizona and see this cat please let us know. He’s my dad’s cat and he’s missing since Saturday. His name is Rocket

Link here with more info:
petcolove.org/lost/pet/los...
Leopard patterned Bengal cat with yellow to dark brown coloring, green eyes, white whiskers, responds to his name Rocket.
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Downgraded to strong currents warning
Tsunami advisory no longer present
Our little family is okay
Safety alert downgrading tsunami to strong currents
July 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A call to repatriate Tlingit funerary items at the Yale Peabody by Alaska Native students. Together, Verner Wilson &I wrote a protest letter to the Yale Peabody Museum in 2014 when we learned of Tlingit funerary items on display. Attached is the screenshot of our letter. RIP Verner Wilson, my friend
Protest letter written by Alaska Native graduate students to the Yale Peabody Museum for displaying stolen Tlingit funerary items. Dated 2014. Requests repatriation to the Tlingit.
July 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Please circulate- if you’re in or near Flagstaff, AZ let us know if you find this Bengal cat, named Rocket, he belongs to my dad. We know the microchip number too

petcolove.org/lost/pet/los...
Photo of a bengal cat slightly yellow and brown, spots on body, lines on face, green eyes, sitting with arms and legs tucked in. White whiskers alert, ears alert, and eyes alert.
July 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM