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Pribilof Islands films, circa 1930s

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time for acknowledging the experiences and celebrating the continuing contributions of Alaska Native and other Indigenous peoples. The tiny Pribilof Islands of St. Paul and St. George, located in the Bering Sea off the southwest coast of mainland Alaska, have a rich yet troubling history. During the 1780s, Russian fur traders forcibly relocated native Aleut (Unangax̂) peoples, mainly from Atka and Unalaska, to the Pribilof Islands to hunt fur seals. When control of the islands transferred from Russia to the United States during the 1867 Alaska Purchase, these Unangax̂ peoples were made wards of the government by the United States, a situation that continued even past the era of WWII. As wards, most aspects of their daily lives were tightly controlled by government authorities. Nonetheless, the spirit and culture of the Unangax̂ people endured.* These clips come from films shot on the Pribilof Islands during the late 1930s and early 1940s by L.C. McMillin. McMillin is generally regarded as having been sympathetic to the plight of the Unangax̂, despite being employed by the U.S. government to manage the islands and its peoples and to oversee seal harvests. His films reveal the rugged beauty of the islands and the resilience and tenacity of the Unangax̂ people who lived there.** Scenes of community activities include men portaging a boat and digging out a snow-drifted road, a celebration with foot races and bobbing for apples, men moving rocks for road construction, a wedding ceremony, men and women carrying drinking water, a baseball game, a Russian Orthodox church processional, boys rock-climbing to hunt for eggs, and fur seals on a rocky beach. To learn more about Unangax̂ culture today, please visit the website of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island - https://tanamawaa.com/ The L.C. McMillin Collection of 16mm films, totaling over three-and-a-half hours of footage, was preserved through a grant in 2020 from the National Film Preservation Foundation (B&W/Color/Silent/16mm film). This film sequence contains excerpts from AAF-14548 -- AAF-14562 from the L.C. McMillin Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska & Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Source: "Unangax̂: Coastal People of Far Southwestern Alaska" (https://www.apiai.org/departments/cul...) by Douglas W. Veltre, who may be contacted at dwveltre "at" alaska.edu. For additional references and other sources of information, please contact Film Archivist Angela Schmidt of the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks: ajschmidt *at alaska.edu * McMillin’s first and middle names were Lee Carroll or possibly Lee Clarence. Collection was initially named the Clarence McMillin Collection, but the name was later amended to the L.C. McMillin Collection. For additional references and other sources of information, please contact Film Archivist Angela Schmidt of the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks: ajschmidt *at alaska.edu