Baxter Bond Keynote Speaker at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native Research and Resiliency Event
ACEP’s Baxter Bond and ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s Walkie Charles, associate professor of linguistics, were the keynote speakers in the 2nd Annual event.
The event, held in Nome, brought together people from across ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ to focus on ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native community strengths, build capacity to do research by and for ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Native people, and to identify what youth, communities and institutions are doing to strengthen culture and well-being.
Bond, a staff member at ACEP and an adjunct instructor teaching introductory Yup'ik grammar, is the president of the and the drummer and song leader for the Iñu-Yupiaq Dance Group.
Baxter Bond was a keynote speaker at the ANCHRR event last week in Nome. Photo by JR Ancheta.