Podcasts about inupiat

“The space we knew as our subsistence camp near Nome, Alaska, has been altered by climate change and was washed away by Typhoon Merbok. This work connects past, present, and future Inupiat and records our stories from fish camp, recording what climate change hasn't erased – our ties to each other and the memories of place.” more...

Le peuple Inupiat d'Utqiagvik endure deux mois d'obscurité pendant l'hiver. Pour cette raison, le taux de suicide est trois fois plus élevé que la moyenne nationale. Rachel, une ancienne de l'église, et sa congrégation ont réagi en organisant Blue Christmas, une veillée aux chandelles pour apporter un soutien pendant cette période difficile.

Hey folks, we are back with another new episode of the Ecosystem Member podcast. Our guest for this episode has a new book coming out October 22 published by Patagonia titled “Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis.” The author is Jon Waterman, who in 1983 started working as a ranger in the Arctic and visited the region dozens of times over a 39 year period. After a 2021 trip with his son that Waterman wrote about for The New York Times, he decided to take a final extended 500 mile expedition by foot and packraft to the region to document the environmental and cultural changes of the climate crisis. In addition to his latest book, Waterman has written several books and for publications such as Outside and Men's Journaland has received frequent grants from National Geographic. His writing has earned him several awards including a Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, three Best Adventure Book nods from the Banff Book Festival, a National Park Services Special Achievement Award and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. This episode focuses in on ‘Into the Thaw' and what Jon witnessed over the course of his nearly four decades worth of travel in the Arctic. We talk about how he came to be interested in the Arctic, the changes he saw in the Arctic due to climate change from his first trip in 1983 to his final trip in 2022, and his relationship with the Inupiat people. There aren't too many writers and adventurers out there like Jon these days, so it was a real treat to get to speak with him about ‘Into the Thaw'. Make sure to grab your copy on October 22 or you can pre-order it through the link in our show notes, which leads to a little virtual bookshop we set up of some of our favorite reads on Bookshop.org. If you prefer to go straight there, the URL is bookshop.org/shop/ecosystemmember. Without further delay, here is the latest episode of the Ecosystem Member podcast with Jon Waterman, author of the new book “Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis.” Links Preorder “Into the Thaw”  Jon Waterman's Website Jon Waterman's Instagram Jon Waterman's piece in The New York Times from his 2021 Arctic Trip with His Son

On this week's episode of The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast, we sit down with Patuk Glenn, the Executive Director of the Arctic Slope Community Foundation (ASCF) and a digital media influencer. Patuk has dedicated her life to promoting and preserving the Inupiat way of life, working in various roles that have made a significant impact on her community in the Arctic Slope region of Alaska. Patuk has served as Museum Curator for the Inupiat Heritage Center, worked as a Project Manager for the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation in Community Economic Development, and now leads ASCF, an organization committed to strengthening the culture of giving and improving the quality of life among the people of the Arctic Slope. For Patuk, her greatest achievements are the relationships she has developed with community members, and she continues to work tirelessly to support the region's positive growth and development. When the world changed during the 2020 pandemic, Patuk turned to TikTok to create cultural, educational, and entertaining videos about life in the Arctic. One of her viral videos about her family's ice cellar—a traditional storage method for subsistence foods like bowhead whale, caribou, and seal—captured national attention and helped her build a following of over 120,000. Patuk now uses her platform to share the beauty and challenges of life in the Arctic and to uplift Inupiaq culture. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Patuk's inspiring life story; Her experience growing up in the Arctic Slope - the northernmost region of Alaska; How she got involved in the work she's doing to improve the quality of life for the people of the Arctic Slope region and how she started working for ASCF; The story of how she started using TikTok and Instagram to create cultural, educational, and entertaining videos about life in the Arctic; Stories of the people she is helping through her digital media presence and her work with ASCF; And so much more! For more information on Patuk and her incredible work, please visit: www.1GirlRevolution.com/Patuk  Listen and Subscribe: Don't miss this inspiring episode - and so many others! Listen to The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast on #ApplePodcasts, #Spotify, #YouTube, and subscribe to stay up-to-date with our latest episodes. Join the movement to empower girls and change the world, one story at a time!

Jonathan is an ER doctor based in Philadelphia, trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics. His journey as a foodie began during medical school while dissecting cadavers, which sparked his fascination with learning how muscles correspond to various cuts of beef. He now runs the dinner series Anatomy Eats (@anatomyeats on all social media platforms), where he collaborates with chefs around the country to serve offal dishes. During these events, he discusses the anatomy and physiology of the parts being eaten, sometimes even dissecting organs as people dine. In his first book, "The Unseen Body," Jonathan addresses the 1971 US law banning the sale of animal lungs as human food. In 2023, he submitted an official petition to the USDA arguing for the overturn of this law, and he is currently awaiting their response. Jonathan is writing a new book based on Anatomy Eats, which will explore the intersection of anatomy and cuisine worldwide. The book aims to debunk many misconceptions about food that can be easily disproved with basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Some topics he plans to cover include whether eating testicles increases testosterone or masculinity, the real reason some cuts of meat are tougher than others, how foie gras relates to fatty liver disease, and the safety of consuming animal colons (which he confirmed through a visit to the Chitlin Fest in Salley, SC). Rather than focusing on the nutritional benefits of eating these body parts, Jonathan emphasizes the fascination of understanding that human bodies are composed of the same parts and tissues consumed from animals. He believes that comprehending this overlap enhances the intrigue of eating offal. While he considers every part of an animal healthy (unless it's actually toxic, like a polar bear's liver), his primary interest lies in exploring the anatomical and physiological aspects of these foods. Instagram: @anatomyeats @jonreismanMD Twitter: @anatomyeats @jonreismanMD YouTube: @anatomyeats  @jonreismanMD   Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer. 00:50 Introduction. 06:54 Anatomy eats dinners, dissecting hearts during meals. 09:42 Eating any part of the body can be healthy. 12:03 Icelandic cuisine: dried fish, whale blubber, ram testicles. 14:34 USDA made lungs illegal due to safety concerns. 17:15 Cultural food beliefs and palate adaptability. 21:08 Examined whale heart, fermented walrus dishes fascinating. 26:14 Reevaluation of fat in Western medicine and nutrition. 27:12 Inupiat elders recommended traditional fat-rich diet. 32:54 Traditional vs. modern diet and physical activity. 33:42 Nanook of the North film, hunting seal. 36:39 Fascination with Asian cuisine and exotic ingredients. 42:48 Animal blood can be used in cuisine. 44:57 Modern raw milk is less dangerous. 49:13 Culinary road trips through Mexico and China. 50:25 Where to find Jonathan. See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet for a free 30 day trial: https://carnivore.diet/join/ Carnivore Shirts: https://merch.carnivore.diet Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://carnivore.diet/subscribe/ . ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

Judge Sharon Gleason is the Chief Judge of the United State District Court for the District of Alaska. She was appointed by Barack Obama in 2012 after serving 11 years as a judge on the Alaska Superior Court. She is the first woman to serve as a federal judge for Alaska. On March 29, 2024, she released a 29-page decision against the fishing of the Kuskokwim River by urban fishermen, reserving subsistence fishing only to rural Alaskans. Read more here.Her fame as a federal judge stems from important environment rulings including her 2015 ruling that fined Greenpeace $2500 per hour that they blocked Shell Oil icebreaker from leaving Portland to head to the arctic for drilling operations. In 2019 she found that President Trump unlawfully sought to open the Chukchi Sea for offshore drilling; that same year she also blocked road construction between King Cove and Cold Bay. And in November 2023 she upheld the Biden administration's approval of the Willow project rejecting Inupiat and environmental claims against it.This interview came about after I gave a special order on the House floor in honor of the country of Estonia's Independence Day. The most famous Estonian-Alaskan is Judge Sharon Gleason. She is the granddaughter of Timotheus Grünthal – he was an Estonian politician serving in the Estonian parliament; Judge Gleason's Grandmother was Vera Poska-Grünthal was a leading Estonian Feminist and a founder of the International Federation of Women's Lawyers. Vera's father, Judge Gleason's great-grandfather, was Jaan Poska who was the first ethnic Estonian admitted to the bar in Tallinn, the capitol of Estonia. Poska served as mayor of Tallinn from 1913-1917 and then became the governor of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia in 1917. The Republic of Estonia was formally declared on 24 of February 1918 and Judge Gleason's Great Grandfather was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. He negotiated the Treaty of Tartu with Russia in 1920, and he was a drafter of the Estonian Constitution. So our guest today is a direct descendent of a founding father of Estonia.This interview was recorded on Zoom and there was a sound issue with Judge Gleason's microphone. I apologize for the buzzing sound.

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis has named Dominican Father Steven Maekawa, a former active duty military chaplain, as the next bishop of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Vatican announced the appointment on July 11. Maekawa will take on the role of leading a diocese that spans more than 400,000 square miles, the largest diocese in the United States geographically. The 55-year-old Dominican friar has been based in Alaska since 2016, serving as the pastor of Holy Family Old Cathedral in Anchorage. Maekawa was awarded a special medal in active duty for his work as a military chaplain in the U.S. Navy Reserve, serving a tour of duty with ground troops in Afghanistan in 2004. In Fairbanks, Maekawa will succeed Bishop Chad Zielinski, whom Pope Francis appointed as the bishop of New Ulm, Minnesota, last year. The Diocese of Fairbanks has 46 Catholic parishes, only nine of which can be reached by car. The new bishop will need to use a bush plane to reach some remote Catholic parishes, including in native Yup'ik, Cup'ik, and Inupiat communities. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254770/pope-francis-names-dominican-priest-and-former-military-chaplain-as-alaska-s-next-bishop A law to shield churches from discriminatory state regulation is officially in effect in Virginia, offering state residents what the bill's sponsor called a “spectacular win” for religious freedom in the state. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254769/new-virginia-law-offers-churches-additional-protections-against-being-shut-down A little boy who managed to get past the crowd control barrier at World Youth Day (WYD) in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 to give an emotional embrace to Pope Francis is now a seminarian preparing for the priesthood. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254774/boy-who-got-past-security-barrier-to-embrace-pope-francis-at-wyd-2013-is-now-a-seminarian Today, the Church celebrates Saint John Gualbert. Born wealthy in the tenth century and growing up in a life of frivolity, John experienced a powerful conversion when he had a vision of Christ on the Cross, leading him to forgive his brother's murderer. On a plot of land east of Florence called Vallombrosa, together with men who were equally committed to a more austere and stricter following of the Rule of St. Benedict, he founded a humble monastery devoted to contemplation and prayer and care of the poor and sick. The Vallombrosan Benedictines still exist today, mainly in the region of Tuscany and Lombardy, and number a handful of monasteries. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-john-gualbert-299

NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo's streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they've had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference's second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh's first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A's 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery's deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can't be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA's expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men's national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter's conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington's dog team pulled him down Nome's main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington's grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world's most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) drives around Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) falls to the ice after knocking the puck away from Nashville Predators center Mark Jankowski (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Caleb Jones (82) moves the puck away from Boston Bruins left wing A.J. Greer (10) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo’s streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they’ve had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh’s first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A’s 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery’s deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can’t be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA’s expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men’s national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter’s conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington’s dog team pulled him down Nome’s main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington’s grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world’s most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo's streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they've had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference's second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh's first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A's 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery's deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can't be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA's expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men's national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter's conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington's dog team pulled him down Nome's main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington's grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world's most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) drives around Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) falls to the ice after knocking the puck away from Nashville Predators center Mark Jankowski (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Caleb Jones (82) moves the puck away from Boston Bruins left wing A.J. Greer (10) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo's streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they've had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference's second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh's first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A's 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery's deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can't be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA's expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men's national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter's conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington's dog team pulled him down Nome's main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington's grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world's most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) drives around Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) falls to the ice after knocking the puck away from Nashville Predators center Mark Jankowski (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Caleb Jones (82) moves the puck away from Boston Bruins left wing A.J. Greer (10) during the first period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo’s streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they’ve had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh’s first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A’s 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery’s deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can’t be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA’s expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men’s national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter’s conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington’s dog team pulled him down Nome’s main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington’s grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world’s most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo’s streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they’ve had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh’s first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A’s 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery’s deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can’t be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA’s expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men’s national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter’s conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington’s dog team pulled him down Nome’s main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington’s grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world’s most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Last Night NIT – Round 1 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 Michigan 90, Toledo 80 – Bufkin, Baker lead Michigan past Toledo 90-80 in NIT Kobe Bufkin scored 23 points, Joey Baker added 21 and Michigan beat Toledo 90-80 in the first round of the NIT. Bufkin sank 8 of 13 shots with three 3-pointers for the Wolverines (18-15), who will advance to play Vanderbilt in a second-round match-up Saturday at noon. Bufkin added eight rebounds and five assists. Baker hit 8 of 11 shots, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. Hunter Dickinson pitched in with 19 points and nine rebounds. Dug McDaniel finished with 16 points and eight assists. Setric Millner Jr. led the Rockets (27-8) with 19 points. NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH 16 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 75, 16 Southeast Missouri State 71                      South Region 11 Pittsburgh 60, 11 Mississippi State 59                                                     Midwest Region Tonight NCAA First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, OH Fairleigh Dickinson vs. Texas Southern, 6:40 p.m.                                        East Region Nevada vs. Arizona State, 9:10 p.m.                                                          West Region NCAAMBKB – March Madness and Michigan State synonymous under Tom Izzo Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is the first coach to earn 25 straight bids to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The seventh-seeded Spartans will face No. 10 Southern California on Friday in Columbus, Ohio, in the East Region. Izzo's streak breaks the record he shared with former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Basketball Hall of Fame coach was praised by the school’s university president for bringing the community together in the days following last month’s shootings on campus that killed three students and hospitalized five students. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Washington Wizards 117, Detroit Pistons 97 Wizards 117, Pistons 97 – Wizards snap 3-game skid with 117-97 rout of Pistons Bradley Beal scored 36 points, and the Washington Wizards snapped their three-game losing streak with a 117-97 victory over the Detroit Pistons. Playing without Kyle Kuzma, the Wizards still raced out to a 22-point advantage in the first quarter, and although they've had issues holding those types of leads this season, the last-place Pistons represented little threat. Killian Hayes led Detroit with 20 points. Washington moved percentage points ahead of Chicago for the final play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. Tonight Sacramento Kings at Chicago Bulls, 8:00 p.m. NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Nashville Predators 2, Detroit Red Wings 1 Chicago Blackhawks 6, Boston Bruins 3 Predators 2, Red Wings 1 – Predators beat Red Wings 2-1 for 3rd straight victory Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and an assist, Juuse Saros made 28 saves and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night. Tommy Novak also scored to help Nashville win its third straight. The Predators were coming off a 4-1-1 trip. Nashville trails Winnipeg by four points in the rush for the Western Conference's second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played three fewer games. Alex Chiasson scored and Ville Husso made 14 saves for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost two of three. Blackhawks 6, Bruins 3 – Red-hot Raddysh nets hat trick, Blackhawks top Bruins 6-3 Taylor Raddysh scored three goals and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-3, handing the NHL-leading Bruins a second straight regulation loss for the first time this season. Raddysh's first career hat trick gave him 20 goals this season and six in his last four games. Chicago ended a three-game slide. Boris Katchouk scored a tiebreaking goal at 6:59 of the third period and added two assists for his first three-point game. Joey Anderson had a goal and an assist, and MacKenzie Entwistle also scored for Chicago, which entered tied for last place in the Western Conference. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Detroit Tigers 6, Boston Red Sox 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Oakland A's 4 Colorado Rockies 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Today Chicago White Sox at San Francisco Giants, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds 9:05 p.m. Tigers are off NFL – AP source: Lions add David Montogmery, Emmanuel Moseley The Detroit Lions and running back David Montgomery have agreed on an $18 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Montgomery's deal includes $11 million in guaranteed money. The Lions also agreed with cornerback Emmanuel Moseley on a $6 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with that deal told the AP. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because the deals can't be announced until Wednesday. Montgomery ran for 801 yards and five touchdowns last season in his fourth year with the Chicago Bears. He averaged 902 yards per season and 3.9 yards per carry with 26 career TDs. NFL – Bears agree to deal with Titans DE DeMarcus Walker The Chicago Bears have added help on the defensive line, agreeing to a deal with former Tennessee Titans defensive end DeMarcus Walker. Walker tweeted that he has an agreement in place with Chicago. The Bears agreed to a two-year contract extension with fullback Khari Blasingame through the 2025 season and a one-year extension with long snapper Patrick Scales. Offensive lineman Dieter Eiselen — an exclusive rights free agent — signed a one-year contract. Walker is coming off his best year, with a career-high seven sacks in his lone season with the Titans. He played for Denver from 2017 to 2020 and Houston in 2021. The Bears sorely needed help on the defensive line after finishing with a league-worst 20 sacks, their lowest total since the 2003 team had 18. FIFA – FIFA expands 2026 World Cup again to create 104-game program The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for a second time. FIFA has created a bigger opening stage with four-team groups in a 104-game schedule. The tournament will now last nearly six weeks in June-July in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The decision adds 24 more games for the 16 host cities. That should further fuel FIFA's expected record revenue of at least $11 billion through 2026. The 1998 World Cup in France was the first with 32 teams. USA Soccer – US Soccer: Berhalter eligible to coach after investigation The U.S. Soccer Federation says Gregg Berhalter remains a candidate to stay on as men's national team coach after a report by a law firm concluded he did not improperly withhold information about a 1992 domestic violence allegation involving the woman who later became his wife. The report also concluded that Berhalter's conduct “likely constituted the misdemeanor crime of assault on a female” but that it was an isolated event. He can’t be prosecuted because of the two-year statute of limitations for misdemeanors. The law firm Alston and Bird was retained after the Reyna family reported the 30-year-old incident to the USSF. Iditarod – Grandson of Iditarod co-founder wins Alaska sled dog race Ryan Redington has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which his grandfather helped co-found. Redington's dog team pulled him down Nome's main street shortly after noon on Tuesday, sliding him under the iconic burled arch finish line. The 40-year-old Redington will pocket about $50,000 for the win. Redington's grandfather, Joe Redington Sr., helped start the Iditarod, which had its first race in 1973. Ryan Redington, who is Inupiat, becomes the sixth Alaska Native musher to win the world's most famous sled dog race. This is first Iditarod victory, but he won the Junior Iditarod in both 1999 and 2000. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – State Quarterfinals Division 3 at Bangor Hart 45, Buchanan 41 Division 4 at Bellevue Adrian Lenawee Christian 49, Kalamazoo Hackett 36 Tonight Boys Basketball – Regionals Finals Division 1 at DeWitt East Lansing vs. Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Division 3 at Coloma Brandywine vs. Centreville, 7:00 p.m. Division 4 at Bellevue Kalamazoo Phoenix vs. Colon, 7:00 p.m.Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal (3) drives around Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (71) falls to the ice after knocking the puck away from Nashville Predators center Mark Jankowski (17) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 14, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Caleb Jones (82) moves the puck away from Boston Bruins left wing A.J. 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This week Cheryl tells the story of Ada Blackjack. When Ada Blackjack set sail in 1921 for a remote speck of land north of Siberia, which was known to be a nesting ground for polar bears. The petite Inupiat woman was an unlikely Arctic heroine. She was meant to be a seamstress and cook for an expedition comprised of four men and a female cat named Vic, Blackjack was assured that during her one-year contract sewing survival gear on Wrangel Island, she would be well fed and cared for without needing to participate in the grueling day-to-day work of Arctic survival. But by the time a rescue ship crested the horizon nearly two years later, Blackjack, who would come to be known as “The Female Robinson Crusoe,” was the only member of the party still alive—that is, apart from Vic. The shy tailor with the crippling fear of polar bears had taught herself to shoot and trap to stave off the constant threat of starvation, and when she strode out to meet her rescuers in a resplendent reindeer parka she had stitched herself, her gaunt face held a triumphant smile. Rob follows with more unfortunate tales of bad decisions, and in one case some instant karma. Listen to this weeks episode to hear more!

In the late 1950s the US Atomic Energy Commission initiated Operation Plowshare, which was a research project designed to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Edward Teller, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, championed the first big project of Operation Plowshare which was to blast a deep sea harbor near Cape Thompson, Alaska, by detonating a series of nuclear bombs simultaneously. This proposal was known as Project Chariot. What the proponents of this plan insisted was that it was safe and would bring economic prosperity to Alaska. Edward Teller and his staff toured the state promoting the plan and stating over and over that these nuclear explosions would not cause any lasting harm to Northwest Alaska, specifically not to the people of Point Hope who lived just 30 miles  from the planned harbor. If Project Chariot were to have been carried out it could have resulted in radiation exposure equivalent  to up to 675 Chernobyl disasters. In his 1994  Book The Firecracker Boys Fairbanks author Dan O'Neill documents in riveting detail how the Atomic Energy Commission misled the Alaskan public, and how a group of concerned scientists and most importantly the Inupiat people of Point Hope themselves successfully fought back the US Government from conducting an atomic experiment that would have resulted in lasting nuclear devastation to our great state.

Hang out on the far north coast with Richard and some hungry polar bears and learn about the meticulous study of these fascinating animals by Inupiat people, who have passed along and added to this vast body of knowledge over many, many generations.

This episode features one of Alaska's 2022 Congressional Candidate Tara Katuk Sweeney (R) and focuses on her campaign for Alaska's At-Large Congressional District which was vacated with the passing of Congressman Don Young. We get to know Tara a little more, what seat she is running for and how Alaska got here.Be sure to tune into future episodes of C&Q episode featuring Congressional candidate Mary Pelota (D) and an informational C&Q episode featuring Michelle Spark, Director of Strategic Initiatives who gives us a deep dive into Get Out the Native Vote. Happy voting, Quaqtis.Rock The Vote - 1996https://vimeo.com/100458497

A crash course in whale science from Inupiat hunters; The teens charged in the murder of David Grunwald have been sentenced; Child care in Alaska is in crisis

Austyn and Repy recount the extreme survival situation endured by reluctant Inupiat explorer Ada Blackjack on Alaska's Wrangell Island as well as the harrowing stories of survival during Colorado's Big Thompson Canyon Flood of 1976. 0:00 - 25:30: Banter 26:00 - 1:19:30: Ada Blackjack 1:20:00 - 1:38:00: The Big Thompson Canyon Flood of 1976 For donations please visit Paypal.me/HellandHighHorror Our theme music is a derivative work featuring samples from Top Pop by Jumbo Seller Music and clips of dialog from Peeping Tom (1960), The Shining (1980), and Psycho (1960). Our cover artwork was created by Pineberrry. The hosts of Hell and High Horror are Austyn Castelli and Repy Hattersley Become a Patron on Patreon and gain access to our monthly news episode and more!: https://www.patreon.com/Hellandhighhorror
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Spring may have sprung, but we head to the frozen north for this episode! Join us as we adventure through a co-op game unlike any other - the educational, inspiring, and culturally-diverse, Never Alone, by Upper One Games.In this episode we cover:The irony of deliberately sitting on a game review, only to be delayed in publishing by a sinus infectionBailey's getting a big head over her YouTube skillsIntroducing, World Games - culturally rich games for a global audience A win for diversity in gamingGame Details:Name: Never AloneWe played it on: PCAlso available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Series X|S, Nintendo SwitchDeveloper: Upper One Games - the first indigenous-owned game company in the USYear: 2014Connect with us!To stay up to date with the show, talk to us about what we have been playing, or even suggest a new game, we encourage you to follow the show and connect with us on Discord, Twitter, and Instagram.Ours, Played Date NightTo pair with Never Alone, we recommend Bailey's recommendationExplore other Inupiat/Inuit stories from cultural organizations - we'll include some links in the show notesNative Languages of the Americas: Inuit Legends, Myths, and StoriesEskimo Folk-TalesRob's recommendationSticking with the educational theme - find a documentary to watch! Something about climate change or the fishing industry if you want to align it with some of the issues facing the Inupiat people.

Doreen Cunningham, author of Soundings, followed the grey whales to the Arctic and she brings what she learnt on her journey into conversation with Lucy Scholes. Listen to Doreen explain how the very grammar of the Inupiat language gives the speaker a more respectful relationship with animals, how the trauma of poverty lingers and how her heroine is a grey whale named Earheart. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode of The Reference Desk, Katie is bewitched by the Arctic survival story of Ada Blackjack. Ada was a young, single mother living in Nome, Alaska when she was approached about joining an expedition to uninhabited Wrangel Island. The Inupiat woman was told she would live among other Inuit families as they assisted a crew of four explorers who were colonizing the remote island under the command of famous Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Instead, Blackjack found herself the only woman alongside a small crew of very inexperienced young men. What followed was two years of incredible survival in one of the most inhospitable landscapes on the globe. By the time the rescue ship reached Wrangel Island, Ada Blackjack was the lone survivor of the expedition. What we are reading: -The Good, the Bad, and the Dumped by Jenny Colgan-Book Lovers by Emily Henry -When You Get the Chance by Emma LordRecommendations:-Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Nivens-Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the 'Female Robinson Crusoe' by Peggy Caravantes-A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy-How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy-How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior-The Arctic Fury by Greer MacallisterSupport the show

In this week's episode of The Reference Desk, Katie is bewitched by the Arctic survival story of Ada Blackjack. Ada was a young, single mother living in Nome, Alaska when she was approached about joining an expedition to uninhabited Wrangel Island. The Inupiat woman was told she would live among other Inuit families as they assisted a crew of four explorers who were colonizing the remote island under the command of famous Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Instead, Blackjack found herself the only woman alongside a small crew of very inexperienced young men. What followed was two years of incredible survival in one of the most inhospitable landscapes on the globe. By the time the rescue ship reached Wrangel Island, Ada Blackjack was the lone survivor of the expedition. What we are reading: -The Good, the Bad, and the Dumped by Jenny Colgan-Book Lovers by Emily Henry -When You Get the Chance by Emma LordRecommendations:-Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Nivens-Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the 'Female Robinson Crusoe' by Peggy Caravantes-A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy-How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy-How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior-The Arctic Fury by Greer MacallisterSupport the show

In this episode, Cody talks with three fellow Alaskan podcasters about what it's like creating podcasts about Alaskans. Alice Qannik Glenn hosts “Coffee & Quaq,” a show that celebrates and explores contemporary Native life in urban Alaska. In it, Alice sits down with Alaska Native thinkers, doers and changemakers to discuss issues that affect Alaska Native people, their culture and their environments. She also hosts and produces “Resolve,” a show about missing and murdered Indigenous women in Alaska, and also “Alaska Natives on the Frontline,” which highlights the adaptability and resilience of the Inupiat people in the face of climate change. Daniel Buitrago co-hosts the “Alaska Wild Project,” a show that gives an inside look at Alaska outdoor lifestyles. Ralph Sara is the host of the “Anonymous Eskimo Recovery Podcast,” a show that features conversations with guests who are working through alcohol and drug addiction, many of which are Indigenous People.

In this episode of Chatter Marks, Cody talks with three fellow podcasters about what it's like creating podcasts about Alaskans. Alice Qannik Glenn hosts “Coffee & Quaq,” a show that celebrates and explores contemporary Native life in urban Alaska. In it, Alice sits down with Alaska Native thinkers, doers and changemakers to discuss issues that affect Alaska Native people, their culture and their environments. She also hosts and produces “Resolve,” a show about missing and murdered Indigenous women in Alaska, and also “Alaska Natives on the Frontline,” which highlights the adaptability and resilience of the Inupiat people in the face of climate change. Daniel Buitrago co-hosts the “Alaska Wild Project,” a show that gives an inside look at Alaska outdoor lifestyles. Ralph Sara is the host of the “Anonymous Eskimo Recovery Podcast,” a show that features conversations with guests who are working through alcohol and drug addiction, many of which are Indigenous People. Chatter Marks is a podcast of the Anchorage Museum, and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Google Podcasts. Just search "Chatter Marks."

With the help of an Alaska Native grandmother suffering from dementia, Chukchi police chief Nathan Active hunts down the killer who hid a woman's expertly dismembered body in the ice cellar of an abandoned Inupiat fish camp. The investigation pulls Active into a dark tangle of love and jealousy, even as he struggles with the PTSD that has haunted him since being wounded in a shootout in an earlier case.The case starts when Tommie Leokuk's husband brings her to Active's office to show him what she found in her latest midnight ramble around the Arctic hamlet of Chukchi. From the pouch of her traditional atiqluk, she pulls a human jawbone with a single molar still in place.Tommie's dementia means she can't explain where she found it. As her husband explains, “She lost her brain few years ago.”At first, Chief Active doesn't know whether she's found a murder victim or an old grave opened by erosion or scavengers.He soon discovers it's very much a murder case, one of the most tangled he's seen. The victim had two lovers, one male, one female. Both become suspects as the investigation proceeds.At the same time, Active grapples with PTSD from being shot in a prior case. When he starts to wonder how his gun would taste, he realizes it's time to see Chukchi's tribal healer, Nelda Qivits, who believes anything can be cured by a cup of bitter sourdock tea in her little cabin on a back street of Chukchi.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the help of an Alaska Native grandmother suffering from dementia, Chukchi police chief Nathan Active hunts down the killer who hid a woman's expertly dismembered body in the ice cellar of an abandoned Inupiat fish camp. The investigation pulls Active into a dark tangle of love and jealousy, even as he struggles with the PTSD that has haunted him since being wounded in a shootout in an earlier case.The case starts when Tommie Leokuk's husband brings her to Active's office to show him what she found in her latest midnight ramble around the Arctic hamlet of Chukchi. From the pouch of her traditional atiqluk, she pulls a human jawbone with a single molar still in place.Tommie's dementia means she can't explain where she found it. As her husband explains, “She lost her brain few years ago.”Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

TEASER: Welcome to Village City - A lifestyle campaign connecting rural and urban youth across the state of Alaska brought to you by Native Time in partnership with the Alaska Humanities Forum. Native Time is now and Village City is right here. This episode features Jenilee Donovan a basketball star, hunter, and the youngest person to strike a whale in Utqiagvik last Fall. This is her story. Full episode available Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021.The music for this teaser was created by Aqqalu also known as Uyarakq, whose music is available on all platforms.

TEASER: Welcome to Village City - A lifestyle campaign connecting rural and urban youth across the state of Alaska brought to you by Native Time in partnership with the Alaska Humanities Forum. Native Time is now and Village City is right here. This episode features Katlyn Smith who is Miss Teen Arctic Circle 2021 with big dreams hailing from Kotzebue and Nome, Alaska. This is her story. Full episode available Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021.The music for this teaser was created by Ukila also known as Byron Nicholai, whose music is available on all platforms.

It's hard to peg Dennis Allen as exclusively a filmmaker, or a musician, or a writer. Rather, Dennis weaves between all three with ease and comfort. From a long line of traditional Inuit story-tellers, Dennis took this ancient folk art of storytelling and shape-shifted it into award winning films, poignant songs, and dramatic writing. Winner of the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award; The Sally Manning Award for Non-Fiction Writing, and an Honorable Mention from the American Songwriter's Competition, Dennis is a talented artist and gifted storyteller. DENNIS ALLEN'S WEBSITE

There are few places on earth where humans aren’t at the top of the food chain, but the Arctic sea ice is one of them. Photographer Kiliii Yuyan saw this firsthand while documenting the Inupiat people’s spring whale hunt. A hungry polar bear began stalking the party, forcing the hunters to defend themselves. The dramatic experience was a harsh lesson in the realities of survival in a truly wild place, but Yuyan was even more impacted by what he witnessed in the aftermath. As the Inupiat continued to move among more bears during the hunt, they treated their fellow predators with respect, awe, and admiration. This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the all-new 2021 Ford Bronco Sport, a 4x4 SUV with seven available G.O.A.T. modes that enable it to go over any type of terrain. Learn more at ford.com/bronco

Alaska Natives on the Frontline is a special series of Coffee & Quaq highlighting the adaptability and resilience of the Inupiat in the face of climate change, done in partnership with journalist Jenna Kunze. We travelled up to Utqiagvik early last year in 2020, at the peak of winter when the sun had just returned back to the Arctic after polar night and interviewed residents about the various aspects of how Inupiat life has changed, but also how it has remained the same.This episode features a special behind-the-story interview with us, the creators of AK Natives on the Front Line! We took to some to time to have a conversation with Abigail Gipson from Pulitzer Center about our approach to the journalistic work done in Utqiagvik.

Ada Blackjack was an Inupiat born woman, originally named Ada Delutuk, but was actually raised by Methodist missionaries in Nome, Alaska. At 16, she married an abusive man named Jack Blackjack and had three children with him. Only one of those children survived past infancy. Her son Bennet, who had tuberculosis. After Jack left Ada and her son destitute, she had to find a way to care for their son, alone. An opportunity arose for a Native seamstress that spoke English. It paid well and would cover the medical costs she needed to have Bennet treated. It would require her absence for 1-2 years. Leaving Bennet in an orphanage temporarily she joined the voyage. Ada at 23 was the only woman in a team of 4 male explorers. She was hired to cook, clean and sew for them. The mission was to claim Wrangel Island. Only, when they got there, things didn't go to plan and Ada started a 2 year fight for her survival. She, in fact, became the only survivor.Listen to this weeks episode, to hear about the incredible journey and life of Ada Blackjack.Don't forget to leave us a review!You can also visit our website at www.notmenottodaypodcast.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/notmenottodaypodcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notmenottodaypodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotMeNotTodayPC

New York–based jewelry and object designer Monique Péan sees fossils and extraterrestrial materials as portals to another time, space, and place. Pyritized dinosaur bones, woolly mammoth tooth roots, meteorites, and lunaites are among her work’s mediums. She sources these from remote locations—including the Arctic Circle, where she located fossils with Native Alaskan Inupiat and Yupik tribes, and on Easter Island, where that site’s aboriginal Polynesian inhabitants helped her hand-carve cosmic obsidian, found on local terrain—and then transforms them into striking, sculptural works of art. Recently, Péan began working on a larger scale, expanding her practice to sculpture and furniture. One of her first pieces in this vein, a bronze vessel incorporating part of a rare meteorite, is included in “Objects: USA 2020,” a forthcoming exhibition at New York’s R & Company gallery (now opening on February 16, 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic), curated by Glenn Adamson, Abby Bangser, Evan Snyderman, and James Zemaitis. Péan wants viewers to experience the wonder she feels when holding a piece of the universe in her hands: a transportive, calming energy that signals the vastness of deep time—and illuminates her role in harnessing it. Péan traces her draw toward these specimens to her younger sister, Vanessa, who died in a car accident at age 16. The loss prompted her, then in her mid-20s (she is now 39), to approach life with urgency and intention. She quit her job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs and, a year later, in 2006, launched her eponymous jewelry line. Each piece is, in a way, a memorial to her only sibling. They’re also a means for the designer to explore the origins of life, and to express not only herself but also gratitude toward the planet: Péan donates a portion of the proceeds from every accessory sold to Charity: Water, a nonprofit that provides clean drinking water to communities in need, and avoids using materials that require mining, opting for antique diamonds and recycled gold or platinum instead. The ancient materials she uses are found lying on the Earth’s surface, collected by simply picking them up off of the ground, and in Péan’s hands, they’re turned into wearable reminders of natural phenomena.On this episode, Péan details how she came to understand time through geology, talking with Spencer about her fascination with fossils, rocks, and meteorites; her profound experiences working with indigenous peoples to locate age-old materials; how her Haitian-Jewish background has shaped her worldview; and the ways in which her jewelry pays tribute to her late sister.

This episode features Iñupiaq Studies professor Jerica Niayuq Aamodt and Iñupiaq studies coordinator Katie Qaggun Roseberry from Iḷisaġvik College. Iḷisaġvik translates to a place to learn. Operated by the North Slope Borough, it is the only tribal college in Alaska and is the northernmost accredited community college in the United States. Alaska Natives on the Frontline is a special series of Coffee & Quaq highlighting the adaptability and resilience of the Iñupiat in the face of climate change, done in partnership with journalist Jenna Kunze. We travelled up to Utqiaġvik earlier this year at the peak of winter when the sun had just returned back to the Arctic and interviewed residents about the various aspects of how Iñupiat life has changed, but also how it has remained the same.

This week, we delve into the creation myths of the Native American tribes of Alaska. The stories covered today are the tales of the Inupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Kodiaks of Kodiak Island, the Tlingit of Alexander Islands, and the Tsimshian of southern Alaska. I hope you enjoy the stories. If you do, please leave a rating and feedback. Share and subscribe! Your patronage would help us immensely! Reference: Bierhorst, John. The Mythology of North America , 28–29. New York: William Morrow, 1985. Revised, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Get in touch with us: Twitter: @storiesthtmdeus Instagram: @storiesthtmdeus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/storiesthatmdeus e-mail: info.storiesthatmadeus@gmail.com The music used for the episodes are either free to use, or under creative commons license. Below are their links and attributions: Namaste by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Anguish by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400047 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ So Dramatic by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Intuit256 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100193 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Dreams Become Real by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1500027 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Dragon and Toast by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100251 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Act Two - Tenebrous Brothers Carnival by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100641 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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This episode explores how the unique water and sewer infrastructure operates in an Arctic environment like Utqiagvik, Alaska and how permafrost thaw and coastal erosion are affecting these systems. Alaska Natives on the Frontline is a special series of Coffee & Quaq highlighting the adaptability and resilience of the Inupiat in the face of climate change a project funded by the Putlizer Center Connected Coastlines program, done in partnership with journalist Jenna Kunze. Throughout this series we explore how aspects of life have been affected by climate change in Utqiagvik, things like subsistence whaling practices, research, anthropological work, and more.

I cover a great article that tells the story of how Inupiat communities are adapting to Climate Change in the Arctic by using various technologies that provide safer hunts and help build the proper infrastructure to the communities. Above all, the article shows how the Inupiat people want to be respected and treated like others when companies and governments use their land to extract resources such as oil.  Link to Article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.7/indigenous-affairs-climate-change-what-choice-do-we-have Do you like hearing stories about communities that are working to protect their land and ocean? Share your thoughts in the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Speak Up For Blue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakupforblue/ Speak Up For Blue Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakUpforBlue Check out the Shows on the Speak Up For Blue Network: Marine Conservation Happy Hour Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k4ZB3x Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2kkEElk Madame CuriosityApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2xUlSax Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2V38QQ1 ConCiencia Azul: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k6XPio Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k4ZMMf Dugongs & Seadragons: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lB9Blv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lV6THt Environmental Studies & Sciences Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lx86oh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lG8LUh Marine Mammal Science: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k5pTCI Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k1YyRL Projects For Wildlife Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Oc17gy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/37rinWz Ocean Science RadioApple Podcast: https://apple.co/3chJMfA Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3bnkP18 The Guide To Mindful Conservation: Dancing In Pink Hiking Boots:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31P4UY6 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3f7hDJw

Parents can be pretty amazing sometimes - these two stories feature parents who went above and beyond for their kids and their community. Ada Blackjack was an Inupiat woman who was the only survivor of an extreme Arctic expedition, and she did it all for her son. The McCoy Family of Michigan had escaped enslavement in the South, but as their daughter Anna would find out, that wasn't the end of their story. This episode features the esteemed voice talents of Greg and Abigail Maupin.

I gave a docent tour at the Frist Art Museum this past Sunday of our current exhibition: Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. It is a beautiful exhibition curated by the Minneapolis Institute of Art which will travel to the Smithsonian in Washington, DC and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK after it closes here in Nashville next weekend. One piece stood out this past Sunday: Idiot Strings: The Things We Carry by Sonya Kelliher-Combs an Athabascan and Inupiat artist from Alaska. It is a series of goat and sheep hide pouches attached to strings, forming floating pockets. They cast shadows on the ground, creating an ethereal effect. The piece is, in part, the artist’s response to the suicides of three of her relatives. The strings invoke “the idea of tethering,” she said, “to not forget about these people.” I talked with my tour group about the empty pouches and how they represent the burdens that we carry with us that we need to empty out from our lives. We have all been harmed in some way whether it is discrimination, relationship difficulties, or being slighted. It may be physical, emotional or spiritual harm, but we have all experienced the difficulties that life brings us. But which are the ones that we should no longer emotionally carry, not forgetting that they ever happened, but instead recognizing that they make up our past, but they don’t need to harm our future?My tour group also talked about how our movement and our breath influences the swaying of the empty pouches. Representing how intertwined we are with each other and how we can either provide comfort and nourishment, or tear down others with our words and actions.And the idiot strings? They are a reference to the string where a small child’s mittens are attached so they don’t get lost. In Alaska, it is important to not lose your mittens! But the emotional scars that we have, they don’t need to be a burden forever.Here’s a 1:19 minute video of the installation at another museum in Norway of Idiot Strings: https://youtu.be/WqkL2faAHmI I plan to carry this image with me through my next week.What burdens are you carrying? Or what can you do to relieve the burdens in others?Blessings, my friend,Agatha

Parts 1 & 2 combined into a full story. The Reading Bug's magic book bag is ready to whisk us away to the North Pole - at the very top of the globe - to see the amazing sights and animals there. But when a new friend arrives, the adventure takes an unexpected turn! Travel with Lauren and the Reading Bug on this spectacular journey! Explore the books in the Reading Bug's magic book bag at www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/arctic

Part 2 of 2. Back in the North Pole, join Lauren, the Reading Bug and Tapeesa on a dog-sled adventure through Alaska, seeing amazing sights and endangered animals along the way! Explore the books in the Reading Bug's magic book bag at www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/arctic

Part 1 of 2. The Reading Bug's magic book bag is ready to whisk us away to the North Pole - at the very top of the globe - to see the amazing sights and animals there. But when a new friend arrives, the adventure takes an unexpected turn! Travel with Lauren and the Reading Bug on this spectacular journey! Explore the books in the Reading Bug's magic book bag at www.thereadingbug.com/adventures/arctic

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W. W. Norton, 2019) breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans―the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia―before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Bathsheba Demuth  is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. As an environmental historian, she specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She has lived in Arctic communities from Eurasia to Canada. Demuth has a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Steven Seegel (NBN interviewer) is Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Arctic: Heaven and Hell All In One Nature Governs The Arctic Steven Kazlowski of Left Eye Productions, Inc., is a trained marine biologist, naturalist and professional wildlife photographer: The Arctic to me, well, it's Heaven and Hell all in one. It's either the best place you could ever want to be or you could feel cold and maybe a little scared.  With the situation you are in you could feel either one or the other it seems like. When it's nice and everything is going right there's probably not many places like it on the Earth where it is still free and open.  Nature governs it. People like Jack still go out on the land or live on the land and do unique things.  People like him live up here and exist with it. Jack Lives! Inupiat, Jack Kayotuk lives in the Arctic: It was really cold and dark and windy and I started heading back to the camp which was about 60 miles away.  My snow machine was giving me problems but I thought it was nothing so I just kept going. I made it about another 30 miles and the engine blew out. There I was with just my two own feet to walk 30 miles to camp and I had no gear.  And the drinking water had frozen up already. Polar Bear Guides Jack and Steve are polar bear guides and they educate tourists on how the bears live and the need to protect them.  Jack recalls a female bear with a broken leg but returned year after year healthier than the last.  Steve tells his story of when the polar bear tapped him on the shoulder. Listen to the adventures with the Akook Arctic Adventure polar bear guides. Left Eye Productions photography (http://lefteyepro.com) Akook Arctic Adventures (http://www.akookarcticadventures.com)  

Eli Elezra has put together quite the list of poker accomplishments. The former businessman was one of the stars of the poker boom, enduring seven-figure swings by playing in some the biggest cash games in the world. He has also had quite a bit of success in live tournaments with more than $3.6 million in earnings. The 58-year-old won his World Poker Tour title back in 2004 at the Mirage Poker Showdown for $1,024,574. He also has three World Series of Poker bracelets, having taken down a 2007 stud eight-or-better event, a 2013 triple draw event, and a 2015 stud event. But poker was the furthest thing from Elezra's mind growing up in Jerusalem, and later serving in the Israel Defense Force during the Lebanon War. After being wounded in battle, Elezra moved to Alaska, where he worked in a salmon cannery, as a taxi driver, and even hunted bears and whales. He later moved to Las Vegas when he spotted a business opportunity to run a photo processing store on the Strip. It's these stories of high-stakes poker and the near-death experiences of his youth that are featured in his autobiography, Pulling The Trigger. Highlights from this interview include growing up 10 minutes from Jesus, losing the school's money at street poker, spending three weeks in jail, becoming an Israeli Green Beret, enduring starvation week, losing men and being wounded in the war, working 18-hour days in an Alaskan cannery, hunting whales and bears with the Inupiat tribe, moving to Vegas to run photo huts, getting cheated at the Stardust, why the game moved from Mirage to Bellagio, jumping to $4,000-$8,000 stakes, being in the "poker hospital", crushing three-handed games against Chip and Doyle, why they couldn't play props on High Stakes Poker, a $1 million bracelet side-bet score, Scotty Nguyen pieced out, a stinky pickle job, a $1.8 million winning session, ordering one of everything on the menu, and high-stakes games against the KFC colonel.

In celebration of winter we explore films of The Arctic, specifically those which portray the native peoples of that region, from Nanook of the North, through the unfortunately short career of Alaskan actor Ray Mala, to the films of Iñuk director Zacharias Kunuk.    Chapter 1: Allakariallak (7:39) Chapter 2: Agnasquiac (23:26) Chapter 3: Atanarjuat (45:45) Chapter 4: Ethan (1:18:08)

An interview with Dr. Shearer of Coalswarm to discuss the effects of climate change on the village of Kivalina, located in a remote area of Alaska. Dr. Shearer is the author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (2011, Haymarket Press). Dr. Shearer discusses how climate change is forcibly displacing this community that has agreed to a community relocation over 20 years ago. However, no federal resources are available to facilitate this relocation. Dr. Shearer also addresses a lawsuit filed by the village of Kivalina against 24 fossil fuel companies, which was recently dismissed.

Gaza's power struggle: the city where mains electricity is available for two hours a day. Kate Adie introduces this and other reports from Italy, Alaska, Nigeria and the Black Sea. The UN has said that conditions in Gaza are becoming increasingly "unliveable". Education and healthcare are declining, and energy is becoming increasingly scarce. Yolande Knell visits some old acquaintances to find out how Gazans are managing. Tim Whewell takes a ferry across the Black Sea joining the Ukrainians, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek truckers seeking routes that avoid Russia. In Sicily, Manuela Saragosa meets a wine maker trying to resist the rural mafia which wants his land. Claire Marshall gets a glimpse of the fast-disappearing Inupiat way of life in Alaska, and eats a glistening chunk of whale meat. And Alastair Leithead joins the celebrations marking 50 years since the creation of Lagos State in Nigeria.

Jennifer Schell presents her book, A Bold and Hardy Race of Men: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen. At this event, she discusses how mythic Alaska and Arctic whaling has been portrayed in American literature. She also examines the life of Charles D. Brower (The Northern-most American) and his relationship with and admiration for Inupiat people. (47.26 min.) Jennifer Schell is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her books was published by U. Massachusetts Press in 2013.

Many Inupiak in Alaska depend on subsistence hunting to feed their families.  Taqulik Hepa believes that the benefits of hunting for subsitence go far beyond simply providing food. She says that subsistence hunting teaches valuable social lessons as well. Hepa is the Director for the Deparment of Wildlife Management for the North Slope Borough. She spoke to The Living North at the 2012 North Slope Conference in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Recorded in the days before the exploratory drilling begins off the Alaskan coast, May Abdalla travels to Point Hope, not far from where the drilling will begin, to meet the Inupiat people and to learn of their fears and hopes of an oil-rich future.

May Abdalla travels to the settlement of Point Hope, a remote Alaskan village, to meet the Inupiat people and to learn of their fears and hopes of an oil-rich future.

Willie Hensley is known in Alaska as being a founder for the Northwest Alaska Native Association, NANA Corporation, Alaska Federation of Natives, and having been a member of the Alaska State Legislature for ten years. His beautifully written memoir, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, incorporates the richness of Inupiat culture and traditions. those that permeate time and place. This book is more than one person's story but the story of Alaska and how people have coped with drastic changes. Introducing Willie Hensley is Paul Ongtooguk.