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Gordon Pullar,
Ph.D.
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Director
Department of Alaska Native and Rural Development
College of Rural and Community Development
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2221 E. Northern Lights Blvd, #213
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 279-2706
(907) 279-2716 (fax)
Email: g.pullar@uaf.edu
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
The Union Institute, 1997
Organizational Anthropology and International
Studies
Dissertation title: Indigenous Culture
and Organizational Culture: A Case Study of an Alaska Native Organization
M.P.A.
University of Washington, 1983
Tribal Administration; Natural Resource
and Energy Policy
B.A.
Western Washington University, 1973
Sociology/Anthropology
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AREAS OF INTEREST
AND SUBSTANTIVE KNOWLEDGE:
Cultural anthropology, indigenous culture, organizational culture, tribal
administration, Federal Indian Policy, rural development, community development,
organizational development, international indigenous politics, grant proposal
development, enthnohistory of Sugpiat culture area.
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PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND:
1996- present Director, Department of Alaska Native
and Rural Development, College of Rural and Community Development, University
of Alaska Fairbanks
1994- present Instructor and Assistant Professor, Rural
Development Program, CRA. UAF
1992-1996 Director, Alaska Native Human Resource Development
Program, CRA, UAF
1990-1992 Director, Office of Planning, Program Development,
and Evaluation and Human Resource Development Officer, Chugachmiut, Inc.
(The North Pacific Rim, Inc.)
1989-1990 Director, Museum and Cultural Center Project,
Kodiak Area Native Association
1989 Adjunct Faculty, University of Alaska Anchorage,
Kodiak College
1983-1989 President/Chief Executive Officer, Kodiak
Area Native Association
1983-1985 Owner/Publisher, Kadiak Times, Kodiak, Alaska
1981 Associate Editor, Nations Communications, Inc.
(Nations Magazine), Seattle
1979-1981 Business Analyst/Marketing Specialist and
Assistant Editor, The Indian Voice, Small Tribes Organization of Western
Washington, Sumner, Washington
1963-1979 Machine Operator, Shift Supervisor, Georgia
Pacific Corporation – Tissue Products Division, Bellingham, Washington
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SELECTED COMMUNITY
SERVICE:
2004 – present Native American Advisory Group, National
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
2001 – 2004 Board of Directors, International Arctic
Social Sciences Association
2000 – present Leisnoi Village Tribal Council (Woody
Island Tribal Council), President
1999 – present Alaska Native Advisory Board, Indian
Law Resource Center (NGO)
1996 – 2002 Dig Afognak Advisory Board, Afognak Native
Corporation
1996 – present International Editorial Board, Fourth
World Journal, Center for World Indigenous Studies
1995 – 2003 International Editorial Board, Ethnicity
and Health Journal. National Institute for Ethnic Studies in Health and Social
Policy, London, UK.
1995 Advisory Network Member. “Environmental Knowledge,
Cultural Strategies and Development in Greenland and the Circumpolar North.”
A research project of the Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology,
Aarhus University and the Department of Eskimology, Univ. of Copenhagen.
1994 – present Steering Committee, Chairman. Arctic
Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.
1994 – 2002 Board of Directors, Koniag Education Foundation,
President (’97-’02), Vice President (’95-’97)
1992 – 1995 Board of Directors, American Society for
Public Administration, Alaska Chapter
1992 – 1996 Board of Directors, Keepers of the Treasures
– Alaska
1991 – 1997 Board of Directors, President (’93-’94).
National Keepers of the Treasures: Cultural Council of American Indians,
Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Representative to United Nations Working
Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva, Switzerland (1992) and Member of
repatriation delegation to the Republic of Ireland (1995).
1990 - 1995 Advisory Committee. “Indigenous Peoples’
Self-Determination, Identity and Development,” a research project of the
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and the Department of Eskimology,
University of Copenhagen.
1983 – 1990 Board of Directors. Alaska Federation of
Natives, Chairman, Human Resources Board (‘86 – ‘88). Member of various committees
including, Legislative (“1991 Amendments”) Committee and Tribal Government
Committee
1989 – 1991 Board of Directors, Chairman. Alaska Native
Foundation.
1989 – 1991 Governor’s Committee on Employment of People
with Disabilities (Gubernatorial appointment).
1989 – 1990 Organizing Committee. Sixth International
Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1987 – 1989 Kodiak Business and Industry Council. Kodiak
Chamber of Commerce
1987 Cultural Concerns Commission. National Congress
of American Indians, Washington, D.C.
1986 – 1988 Board of Directors. Kodiak Public Broadcasting
Corporation (Radio station KMXT)
1984 – 1985 Board of Directors, Alaska Regional Energy
Association.
1981 – 1983 Board of Directors, Native American Business
Alliance
1980 – 1981 Governor’s Minority and Women’s Business
Development Advisory Council. State of Washington
1979 – 1981 Board of Directors, Northwest Indian News
Association
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2005 “Indigenous Self-Government and Political
Institutions in Alaska.” In: An Indigenous Parliament? Realities and Perspectives
in Russia and the Circumpolar North. International Work Group for Indigenous
Affairs (Copenhagen) and Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the
North (Moscow).
2001 Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the
Alutiiq People. Co-edited with Aron Crowell and Amy Steffian. University
of Alaska Press.
2001 “Foreward.” In: Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan
Island: The Life of an Alutiiq Healer by Joanne Mulcahy. University of Georgia
Press.
1997 “Native Americans and Archaeologists: Commentary
and Personal Perspectives.” (with T.J. Ferguson and Joe Watkins). In: Native
Americans
and Archaeologists: Stepping Stones to Common Ground. (N. Swidler, K.E.
Dongoske, R. Anyon, and A. Downer, eds.). Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek,
California.
1996 “Indigenous Identity on Kodiak Island.” In: Native
Cultures in Alaska. Alaska Geographic, Anchorage.
1996 “Aleut.” In: The Encyclopedia of the American Indian,
(Frederick Hoxie, ed.) Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
1996 “Cultural Revitalization as a Demonstration of
Self-Determination among the Indigenous People of Alaska.” In: Unity and
Diversity in Arctic Sciences, (Monica Tennberg, ed.), International Arctic
Social Sciences Association, Rovaniemi, Finland.
1995 “Alutiiq,” In: Crossroads Alaska: Native Cultures
of Alaska and Siberia, (Valerie Chaussonet, ed.) (with Richard Knecht).
Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution.
1994 “The Qikertarmiut and the Scientist: Fifty Years
of Clashing Worldviews.” In: Reckoning With the Dead: The Larsen Bay Repatriation
and the Smithsonian Institution, (T. Bray and T. Killion, eds.) Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington and London. Reprinted (1995) University
of British Columbia Law Review. Special Issue: 119-135.
1994 “Alutiiq.” In: The Encyclopedia of Native Americans
of the Twentieth Century, (M. B. Davis, ed.) Garland Publishing, Inc.,
New York and London.
1992 “Ethnic Identity, Cultural Pride, and Generations
of Baggage: A Personal Experience.” In: Arctic Anthropology 29(2): 182-91,
University of Wisconsin Press.
1992 “Introduction.” Anthropological Papers of the University
of Alaska: Contributions to the Anthropology of Southcentral and Southwestern
Alaska. (R. Jordan, F. de Laguna, A. Steffian, eds.) 24(1-2):1, University
of Alaska Fairbanks.
1990 “The Kodiak Island Archaeological Project,” In:
Preservation on the Reservation: Native American Lands and Archaeology. (A.
Klesert and A. Downer, eds.). pp. 269-274. Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology,
Number 26.
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AFFILIATIONS:
Koniag, Inc., Regional Native Corporation, enrolled shareholder
Leisnoi, Inc., ANCSA village corporation, enrolled shareholder
Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak, enrolled member
Leisnoi Village, enrolled tribal member
American Anthropological Association
Alaska Anthropological Association
American Society for Public Administration
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STATEMENT:
In the summer of 1994 I attended the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous
Populations in Geneva. It was the fourth year I had attended and each time
I came away feeling like I learned just a little more about how we as Alaska
Natives fit in the world. But this time I met someone who had a profound
impact on me. I met a man who was a member of the Twa tribe who had barely
escaped Rwanda with his life just a couple months earlier when genocide
resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. The news accounts
focused on the Hutus and the Tutsis and little if anything was said about
the Pygmy Twa people who were also massacred by the Hutu extremists. This
man hid in the bushes while others around him were found and hacked to death
with machetes. He had been on his way home from work when the massacre
began and never did make it home. At the time he was in Geneva he didn’t
know if his family members had survived or died. He was worried and became
agitated as he relayed his horrible experience. Who could help him? I think
that many who heard him had a sense of helplessness. I thought that others
in the U.S. should be aware of the tragedies that had befallen the Twa. I
thought that especially Native peoples should know what was happening to
their indigenous brothers and sisters in some other parts of the world.
I believe we often become so preoccupied with what is going on around us
that we fail to recognize that we make up a part of a global society. As
we learn of this we can better understand some of the events of history such
as the colonization of Alaska and the trauma inflicted on Native peoples.
The results of this trauma are still with us today in a variety of forms.
Over the past decade I have tried to find opportunities for Alaska Natives,
especially students, to gain exposure to indigenous peoples from other
parts of the world. It will be to our advantage in the long run.
I consider my job as the Director of the Department of Alaska Native and
Rural Development the best job I could ever hope for. I gain great satisfaction
in helping students identify opportunities and pursue their goals and dreams.
I feel a sense of accomplishment in being involved from the beginning with
the RD Applied Field-Based Program where students can earn their BA degrees
from their home communities. I am particularly proud to have had the opportunity
to play a significant role in the design, development and implementation
of the RD MA program. The RD program as a whole has students who bring incredible
knowledge to the program. I believe that students probably learn more from
each other in RD classes than they do from instructors. And, I continually
hear how much instructors learn from the students.
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Department of Alaska Native & Rural Development.
