I Know Mine

The team that runs iknowmine.org is hiring!

We just had the Community Research Assistant position posted on the ANTHC website. No college degree required, just looking for dedicated, energetic individual who’s passionate about sexual health!

Some additional information not stated on the job posting is the position is located our program, which is the HIV/STI (sexually transmitted infections) program. In addition to working on iknowmine.org, our website, the position would include supporting the program’s two research projects, and other programmatic support.

Feel free to submit a personalized cover letter to the program manager about your interest in the position. Her name is Connie Jessen and her email is cmjessen@anthc.org. To be considered for the position, all candidates must submit an application through the ANTHC website.

To apply, go to https://anthc.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm and enter the job ID into the search box: 20130346

05/1/13

Dr. Beth Saltonstall presenting on HIV/STI care for #Alaska Natives in Alaska. Go Beth!

04/20/13

fyeahindigenousfashion:

Love My Life tee, Alan Weir (Haida) for Native Northwest

Native Northwest is a proud sponsor of “Love My Life T-shirts”. This shirt promotes prevention of aboriginal teen suicide . Dr. Peter Eppinga from Haida Gwaii is featured here wearing the shirt. Peter has set up mindcheck.ca and drpettereppinga.com to promote awareness of this critical issue.

(via fyeahnativeamericanart)

12/19/12

#sunrise #nome #alaska #moneyshot #nofilter #bering sea

11/17/12

In air flying to Kiana, #AK it’s beautiful here. #nature #aerial #photo #alaska (Taken with Instagram at Kiana, AK)

10/9/12

We try to highlight our different Indigenous cultures here in Alaska and other locations in the circumpolar region. Here’s a really cool examples of our own art.

Taija

songstersmiscellany:

Inuit Throat Singing by Janet and Sarah.

Two talented women trying their skill together for the first time. Among Inuit women throat singing is a type of vocal game. Lasting this long without making a mistake/laughing is quite a challenge!

07/6/12

nativevoice:

Elsie, my hero by lauritadianita on Flickr.

Elsie, my hero - The beautiful and incredible and awe-inspiring Elsie Boudeau, one of the trainers in the Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative project. (This project is why we went to Barrow, to train local folks in how to improve the local response to violence and support victims). If you don’t know who Elsie is, you ought to. She is a hero of ending child sexual abuse, ending domestic violence and sexual violence, helping people heal and find justice, and doing it in a culturally-affirming way. She is a Yup’ik Alaska Native social worker-survivor-sister.

Check out: www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-silence/ to learn about her work and an important, sad piece of Alaska’s history.
© Laura Norton-Cruz

Here at iknowmine.org we love the work that Elsie does and hear about her all the time when we travel to the villages. I love seeing our leaders highlighted here on tumblr and on pbs.

07/6/12

AK Native Traditional Values poster covering all regions. #alaskanative #alaska #native (Taken with Instagram at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium)

05/18/12

Native Girls Are Being Exploited and Destroyed at an Alarming Rate

indiancountry:

Mary G. was born from the boats. Her children were born from the boats too, all fathered through her liaisons with male customers. She has never known anything else. Like generations of Native girls and women before her, Mary and her family are inextricably tied to prostitution in the great port city of Duluth, Minnesota. Long before the term sex trafficking entered the public lexicon and began appearing in headlines, Native women like Mary and her mother Ruthie were lured into prostitution. Largely driven by poverty and homelessness as well as an underlying racism that sanctioned the sexual degradation of Native women, generations of them have sold themselves to survive.

Is this a story of ours Alaska? Could this be the story of our Alaska Native women? What about AN Women and oil workers? Military? Tourists? How is it the same or different?

05/16/12

Vote on our logo! This logo is for our new sexual health and peer pressure education program for Alaska Native and American Indian youth. We need YOUR input!

Vote HERE (http://bit.ly/LOOcbR)

05/15/12

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