About Nalliq

Nalliq is a repository of stories and poetry about Indigenous issues.

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.

-Anaïs Nin
Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own particpants.

-Edward T. Hall, Anthropologist

Referenced Work

An Open Letter to Our State and Media: Alaska Natives are not 16% of Alaska’s population

A common figure found in a search inquiring the percentage of Alaska Native people: 15.7%. Here’s why that’s wrong.

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I Always, You Never: A Celebration of 'Village English'

Our ways of speaking are beautiful. They sound like us. They come from somewhere.

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On Paper: Validity, Writing and an Oral Tradition

“What’s your Iñupiaq name?”
“Qiġñaaq.”
“ Is it on your birth certificate?”
“No.”
“Oh. So it’s not your real name.”
He doesn’t think, if it’s not in writing, that it’s real.

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We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.