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RAC All participants August 2010
Thursday morning photo shoot. They came from Russia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States.
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Opening session, Thursday. Part of the conference audience at Harrigan Centennial Hall.
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Opening session, Thursday. Vladimir Tikhonov of the Taltsi Museum of Irkutsk receives a Kiks.adi hat and robe symbolizing the lasting peace with (from left) Kiks.adi clan headman Ray Wilson and house leaders Andy Ebona and Fred Hope.
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Opening session, Thursday. The plenary session featuring Ray Wilson and his talk on the peace, not the battle.
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Opening session, Thursday. Kiks.adi clan member and National Park ranger Tom Gamble shows off battle armor made by Tlingit artist Tommy Joseph, who with park ranger Dusty Kidd, talks about the Battle of 1804.
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Opening session, Thursday. Gamble and the battle armor.
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Opening session, Thursday. Renowned scholar James R. Gibson explains the significance of the overlooked Russian settlement at Redoubt Lake, 19 miles south of Sitka.
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Networking. Scholars gather at the exhibit of Siberian students’ impressions of Russian America.
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Thursday afternoon, Session B, Exploration and Mapping. One of the most popular sessions addressed the great mystery: where did Chirikov’s men land? What became of them? Allan Engstrom translates as Vladimir Kolychev postulates.
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Thursday afternoon, Session B, Exploration and Mapping. Dr. Victor Zvyagin describes the fascinating forensic science that led to new information about Vitus Bering – his health, his moods, his death.
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Thursday opening dinner. Dr. Sergei Kan, Dartmouth College, foreground, and to his immediate right, Dr. Richard Dauenhauer and Andy Ebona.
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Thursday opening dinner. More of the crowd as dinner begins.
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Thursday opening dinner. One of four excellent interpreters, Jenya Anichenko of the Anchorage Museum, assists as Sen. Bert Stedman and Rep. Peggy Wilson welcome conferees to Alaska.
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Thursday opening dinner. Sitka Historical Society and Museum intern Sam Heindel introduces one of six conference exhibits, the Aaland Islands Emigrant Institute history of Finnish Migration.
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Thursday opening dinner. Women of the Irkutsk Fort Ross Club model historic Native costumes from Siberia.
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Thursday opening dinner. The dinner crowd watches the Irkutsk Fort Ross Club demonstration.
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Thursday opening dinner. A Native youth dance troupe performs a traditional Tlingit dance and song.
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Thursday opening dinner. Sitka’s famed Naa Kahidi Dancers perform.
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Thursday opening dinner. The Naa Kahidi Dancers and the New Archangel Dancers perform White Sails, the story of the first sighting of Russians by Tlingit, at Lituya Bay.
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Thursday opening dinner. To the music of the Russian folk music group, SitNiks (left), the New Archangel Dancers perform traditional Russian dance.
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St. Michael’s Cathedral Saturday parish lunch for the conferees. Conference organizing committee member Ty Dilliplane of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy shares a confidence with Father Sergious Gerken of St. Michael’s Cathedral.
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St. Michael’s Cathedral Saturday parish lunch for the conferees. Allan Engstrom translates as Dr. Victor Zvyagin explains the forensics work that produced a bust of Vitus Bering, which he presented to Alaska Lt. Governor Craig Campbell. Alaska State Museum’s Glenn Cook looks on.
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St. Michael’s Cathedral Saturday parish lunch for the conferees. Dr. Viktor P. Shakherov of Irkutsk looks on as Father Gerken thanks conferees for sampling the traditional Russian food served by the St. Michael’s Sisterhood, as Bob Medinger of the Sitka Historical Society and interpreter Svetlana Potton observe.
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St. Michael’s Cathedral Saturday parish lunch for the conferees. Father Sergious Gerken chats with Allan Engstrom as Dr. Victor Zvyagin observes.
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St. Michael’s Cathedral Saturday parish lunch for the conferees. Sitka National Historical Park superintendent Randy Y. Larson thanks Lt. Governor Craig Campbell for attending the conference as ranger Dusty Kidd looks on.
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Saturday evening closing picnic at Halibut Point State Recreational Site. A volunteer crew paddles a Tlingit canoe across Sitka waters to Halibut Point State Recreational Site, a state park that played host to the conference closing event.
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Saturday evening closing picnic at Halibut Point State Recreational Site. The crew (from left), Shawaan Gamble, Teri Rofkar, Chelsea Ulrich and XXXXX bring the canoe ashore as Dr. Alexander Petrov leads picnickers down the beach to inspect.
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Saturday evening closing picnic at Halibut Point State Recreational Site. Za zdorovie!! Conferees toast the closing of a successful conference.
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Saturday evening closing picnic at Halibut Point State Recreational Site. A diverse set of conferees include Dr. Dave McMahan, Alaska state archeologist (right); Dr. Alexander Petrov (blue windbreaker), Russian Academy of Sciences; Ray Wilson, headman of the Kiks.adi clan (blue fleece top); and Mary Gentry, National Park Service (to Wilson’s right).
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Battle Cruise. Conferees listen as (from left) Nora Dauenhauer, Richard Daunehauer, “Big John” Nielsen and Ray Wilson begin the story of the Battle of Sitka.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Battle Cruise. An appreciative audience listens as Battle Cruise leaders try to separate fact from fiction of the Battle of 1804.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Battle Cruise. Battle Cruise leaders included Russians, Tlingit, and American experts. Here, Vladimir Tikhonov with Larissa Glatskova and Ray Wilson, as Dr. Sergei Kan (partially obscured) await their turns at the microphone.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Battle Cruise. Dr. Gordon Pullar of University of Alaska –Fairbanks weighs in on the largely-overlooked Alutiiq who fought in the battle, as Dr. Sergei Kan (right) and Dr. Richard Dauenhauer (left) listen.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Battle Cruise. Ranger Tom Gamble bids farewell to one of the Russian experts on the battle, Dr. Andrei Grinev of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Redoubt Exploration. From St. Petersburg (Dr. Sergey Korsun, left) to Fort Ross, California (Robin Joy, right), conferees explore the remains of the Lake Redoubt Russian settlement, 19 miles southwest of Sitka.
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Optional Sunday waterborne tour: Redoubt Exploration. The second of the two Redoubt groups, lead by (back row, from left, with hats) archeologists Jay Kinsman, U.S. Forest Service; Ty Dilliplane, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; and Dave McMahan, Alaska State archeologist.

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