laureli ivanoff

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  • If my house was on fire, I’d grab my favorite ulu

    If my house was on fire, I’d grab my favorite ulu

    My journalist friend, Julia O’Malley, hooked me up with an editor for Eater Magazine to write a piece about the ulu. She reminds me of the importance of community and the recurring lesson that we cannot do anything alone. Thank you, Julia. It was interesting writing about an every day Inupiaq/Yup’ik item in a literal […]

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    January 12, 2023
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  • Compassion is transformative

    Compassion is transformative

    This spring I spoke with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo for a story for New Mexico’s El Palacio Magazine. For five years it was my job to interview people. All kinds of people. Hunters, mayors, U.S. Senators, Alaska Governors, CEOs and birders. I was rarely nervous, and definitely never as nervous as I was in […]

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    June 12, 2022
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  • Gram, Beach Greens, Fermenting & Home

    Gram, Beach Greens, Fermenting & Home

    Our busy harvesting season begins with our ugruk hunts in May. After ugruk we have the oil to store greens and roots like tukaiyuk, masru and sura. (I actually don’t pick sura because I don’t have the patience to pick and clean the tiny greens, LOL.) In June we pick beach greens to ferment. To […]

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    June 2, 2022
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  • I’m writing again!

    I’m writing again!

    It’s been a while. I know. Thanks to High Country News, I’ll be sharing glimpses into our life in western Alaska. My favorite thing. This past summer I took a qulliq carving class with one of the greatest teachers of our time, Kunaq. This column explores welcoming the seal oil lamp back into our homes. […]

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    January 28, 2022
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  • Hurt and healing, maybe even hope

    Hurt and healing, maybe even hope

    For a few days I’ve simply been emotionally numb. Numb to the fact that thousands of Indigenous children’s bodies are buried. Children murdered, abused. Children sick with TB, died without family. Without love. Without care. Children buried. In unmarked graves. Children. While these children died at the hands of the Canadian government and the Catholic […]

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    June 26, 2021
    Blog pieces (my thoughts on things)
  • Group project

    Group project

    Let’s do a project together. Last night I read that you don’t get exhausted doing what you love. It got me thinking. I never got exhausted when working at KNOM Radio providing information to the region, and I have never worked longer hours. I loved it. With everything going on (how we natives say COVID-19 […]

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    April 17, 2020
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  • Family Time Means Moose Hunting

    Family Time Means Moose Hunting

    This past year I full-on caught the moose hunting bug. Some call the fever Moose Brain. The infection started a few years ago when intending to drive way up North River to my Uncle Burkher’s camp. On the way we saw a cow and a bull moose in the middle of the river. My brother, […]

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    December 31, 2022
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  • Today we mourn

    Today we mourn

    Today we know why our marrow has always hurt.Today we know why we were born with pain in our bones. Today we know why. We have been hated. We have been beaten. We have been tortured. We have been killed. We have been shamed. Humiliated. Told WE are evil. Told so much we hate ourselves. […]

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    May 31, 2021
    Blog pieces (my thoughts on things)
  • Liar, liar, pants on fire

    After reading this story KUAC reported a few days ago, I found myself writing a response. I think if I didn’t I would have internally combusted. Writing, in many ways, is a release. A way of getting the energy buzzing in my body placed, yes, just on the page, but at least somewhere. Each and […]

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    May 28, 2021
    Blog pieces (my thoughts on things)
  • So. I love the Anchorage Museum.

    So. I love the Anchorage Museum.

    I love the Anchorage Museum. We love it. It turns out the last date before Timm experienced parenthood was at the Anchorage Museum. That night Timm and I shared a dinner outside at Spenard Roadhouse and then drove downtown to walk around the museum. On free night. 🙂 We loved it. We enjoyed learning more […]

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    May 24, 2021
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  • F**k depression

    I don’t have a lot to say, but it’s enough. While driving home for lunch at noon, I heard the news on KDLG. I trusted I didn’t hear it correctly. A denial response? Or maybe I wasn’t ready to process the information. I got back to work and searched her name and KUNM radio and […]

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    November 13, 2020
    Blog pieces (my thoughts on things)
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