VIDEOS ABOUT BERINGIA

SIULIPTA PAITAAT

Our Ancestor's Heritage

Inupiaq Eskimo Cultural Heritage on the Bering Land Bridge, northern Seward Peninsula Alaska

Narrative:Inupiat elder Gideon Kahlook Barr, Sr. and his sister Elizabeth (Bessie) Barr Cross take you on a remarkable journey across their homeland, in what is now the remote and beautiful Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.

They share folktales and traditions from a wealth of carefully remembered ancestral knowledge, as well as details of their own lives illustrating 20th century changes and challenges to Inupiaq culture. They work with archeologists to discover a past beyond the reach of their ancestors' oral traditions.

This educational video gives an intimate portrait of Inupiaq culture and the timeless Bering Land Bridge on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska.

Running time 29:30 minutes

Produced by Taylor Productions, Inc.
for the Shared Beringian Heritage Program
of the National Park Service, Alaska Support Office

JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

Landscape History of the Bering Land Bridge

Narrative: Discover the rich past and understand the intriguing landscape of the Bering Land Bridge with David M. Hopkins, Professor Emeritus of Quaternary Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Professor Hopkins, who pioneered research in the Bering Land Bridge nearly 50 years ago, takes you on a journey through ice ages, spectacular volcanic eruptions, and climate change spanning thousands of years of earth history.

Through the studies of geology, archeology, and paleoecology you will learn why understanding the landscape and the processes shaping it are important not only to the Inupiat who live there today, but to everyone. This educational video, which explains the processes affecting the arctic landscape within the context of climate change, will be of particular interest to secondary and college students studying earth processes.

Running time 29:30 minutes

Produced by Taylor Productions, Inc.
for the Shared Beringian Heritage Program
of the National Park Service, Alaska Support Office