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Article: Better future is Aleut woman's goal.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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Nina Kiiyakina will do whatever it takes -- reach back into her Aboriginal past or reach out towards the future -- for the sake of her people.
The Aleut woman from the Commander Islands off the coast of Russia is on a mission -- to revitalize the island's failing economy and breathe life back into a beleaguered people.
Only four years ago, Kiiyakina began to teach herself traditional Aleut basketweaving. As director of the Aleutsk Regional Study Museum in Nikolskoye on Bering Island in the Commander Islands, Kiiyakina has a strong commitment to her culture.
But in the last couple of years, that focus has shifted. Now the Aleut ...