Must Read: A Review of COMING HOME
“5 years ago, I went to the Polish Synagogue, now a library, where my grandfather had likely worshipped before departing to the US. The connection to the place was circumstantial at best. Yet as I stood there, a hundred years removed from the actual events of family history,I began to cry.
Native Alaskans have had the collective accouterments of their history taken by successive colonizers, so when an Alutiiq man was overwhelmed when he saw the masks in a French museum, I got it.
Master storytellers always bring out the universal humanity of a moment and so, I think you’ll get it too. This is an hour well spent.”
Jonathan Groubert , Radio Netherlands
Editorial Board, PRX
Coming Home:The Return of the Alutiiq Masks – A one hour documentary that takes us to Kodiak, Alaska, where Alutiiq peoples work to save their language, cultural traditions and heritage by unlocking the secrets of the masks collected by French explorer Alphonse Pinart in 1872. From two-time Peabody Award winner, Dmae Roberts. A one-hour NPR-news-friendly radio documentary edition of Earthsongs. Produced by the Koahnic Broadcast Corporation & Distributed by Native Voice One.
LENGTH: 54 minute
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CD, Content Depot, PRX
