The People of Whaling

Project Contributors
U.S. Senator Ted Stevens

Elders Advisory Committee
Martha Aiken
Jane Brower
Noah and Mollie Itta
Kenneth Toovak, Sr.

North Slope Borough Planning Department
Rex Okakok, NSB Planning Dept. Director
Tupaaq Crist, Deputy Director of NSB Planning Department

Inupiat Heritage Center, Barrow, Alaska
Edna MacLean, President, Ilisagvik College
Beverly Hugo, IHC Facility Director/ECHO Grant Project Manager
Martha Hopson, Education Coordinator
Diana Martin, Collections Management Technician
Maude Hopson, Acting Museum Curator

Former Inupiat Heritage Center Staff
Ronald Brower, Former IHC Director
Vera Williams, Former IHC Facility Director/ECHO Grant Project Manager
Francine Hopson, Former Museum Curator
Jenny Brower, Former IHC Collections Manager

Inupiat History Language and Culture Commission, North Slope Borough
Fannie Akpik, IHLC Commissioner

Former Inupiat History Language and Culture Commission Staff
Frances Mongoyak, Former IHLC Manager
Elsie Itta, Former IHLC Liaison Officer
Arlene Glenn, Former IHLC Liaison Officer
Chris Savok, Former IHLC Collections Manager
Doreen Simmonds, Former Oral Historian

North Slope Borough School District
Jana Harcharek, Manager, Bilingual and Multicultural Instruction

University of Alaska Museum of the North
Aldona Jonaitis, Director
Terry Dickey, Project Director/Coordinator of Education
Karen Brewster, Project Manager
Wanda Chin, Coordinator of Exhibitions and Design
Molly Lee, Curator of Ethnology
Dan Odess, Curator of Archeology
Angela Linn, Ethnology Collections Manager

Site Design and Production
Kirsten Stiehm, Multimedia Specialist
Jessica Wilcox, Multimedia Assistant

Museum Support
Dawn Biddison; Steve Bouta; Peggy Hetman; Mette Moeller; Suzanne McWhorter; Russell Snyder; Amy Taylor; Roger Topp; Jim Whitney.

Consulting Designer
Bob Banghart, Consulting Designer, Banghart and Associates


Project Consultants

Donors to the IHC Collection
Leonard Akootchook; Max and Cora Akpik; Carol Brice; Eugene Brower; Harry Brower, Jr; Ronald Brower; Sr.; David Greist; Clifford Okpeaha; John Cramer; John Heath; Martha Hopson; Adam Leavitt, Sr.; Diana Martin; Nashaknik Family; Sadie Neakok; David Hopson; Daisy Oktollik; Vera O'Neill; Roxy Oyagak, Jr.; Nora Ann Snowball; City of Barrow; Village of Nuiqsut, Beverly Hugo, Maude Hopson, Noah Itta.

Artists / Makers / Workshop Instructors
Rebecca Adams; Jane Brower; Ronald Brower, Sr.; Marie Adams Carroll; Willie Goodwin; Mabel Hopson; Martha Hopson; Molly Itta; Fred Koenig; Bertha Leavitt; Edna Leavitt; Eunice Leavitt; Mary Lou Leavitt; Hattie Long; Diana Martin; Evelyn Nashaknik; Simeon Patkotak, Sr.; Helen Sevick; Samuel Simmonds; Hilda Weber; Cora Ungarook, Van Edwardsen, Flora Ekowana.

Lenders to the IHC Collection
Arctic Slope Regional Coporation (ASRC), Wells Fargo Bank, Barrow Branch, George Adams, North Slope Borough Mayor's Office, Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation (UIC)

Technical Advisors
Monica Shah, Collections Conservator, Anchorage
Luciana Whitaker-Aikins, Photographer, Barrow
Bill Hess, Photographer, Palmer
Scott Carlee, Conservator, Alaska State Museum, Juneau
Aron Crowell, Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, Anchorage
Hajo Eicken, UAF Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks
William Fitzhugh, Director, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Frantz, Elder Informant, Fairbanks
Craig George, North Slope Borough, Dept. of Wildlife Management, Barrow
Richard Glenn, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Lands Department, Barrow
John Homiak, Director, National Anthropological Archives, Washington, DC
Fred “Simik” Kanayurak, Barrow Volunteer Search and Rescue
Michelle Kignak, UAF Student, Fairbanks
Carol Kious, Elder Informant, Fairbanks
Ann McMullen, Curator, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Dr. Lew Shapiro, UAF Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks,
William Schneider, Curator of Oral History, UAF Rasmuson Library, Fairbanks
Jane Snyder, Elder Informant, Fairbanks
Grant Spearman, Curator, Simon Paneak Museum, Anaktuvuk Pass
Brad Weyiouanna, UAF Student, Fairbanks