Happy New Year!

On this New Year’s Day, after all the questioning and prayer about what to make the first post, everything kept circling back to one final truth: the reason I am alive and my relationship to Ellam Yua — and so begins this simple story. One of the classrooms at Atmautluak. LKSD, Joann A. Alexie Memorial School Ellam Yua In Yup’ik Culture In my Yup’ik culture, we called our creator Ellam Yua, the…