Holly Guise ❄️
@hollyguise.bsky.social
Iñupiaq Alaska Native historian. Tries to write. Oral historian- check out ww2alaska.com. Author of: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/ ask your library to order a copy!
So delightful- also the baby walrus needing to be next to someone to fall asleep really sounds like how my kids were alaskapublic.org/2026-10-12/o...
On Alaska's northwest coast, orphaned walrus calf's rescue began with startling discovery
Violet Anniskett was helping research walrus near her hometown of Point Lay when she found the calf sandwiched between two carcasses.
alaskapublic.org
Amazing keynote this morning at the Alaska Historical Society Conference 2026 in Homer with Sam Mihara, who generously shared stories about his childhood incarcerated at the Japanese American concentration camp in Wyoming. Amazing Q&A I look forward to reading his book- that he signed. 🗃️
Amazing keynote this morning at the Alaska Historical Society Conference 2026 in Homer with Sam Mihara, who generously shared stories about his childhood incarcerated at the Japanese American concentration camp in Wyoming. Amazing Q&A I look forward to reading his book- that he signed. 🗃️
My mom and I made it to Homer! In time for Alaska Historical Society conference tomorrow- can’t wait!
If text messages cost money again more people would call each other
The photo doesn’t do it justice- Really amazing coastal view with gigantic waves crashing on the arch Hōlei Sea Arch
I saw this before it fell- stunning. When I told my kids this morning my son said, “Shoot. It looked like an elephant.”
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w agoHawaii's famous Hōlei Sea Arch has collapsed into the Pacific Ocean after standing for roughly 550 years.
Had a great working group meeting today on zoom with the CU Boulder “Translators of the American West” symposium crew- thank you to all my colleagues for the constructive feedback! In the coming months, I’ll revise my essay focusing on oral histories with Alaska Native elders
One year ago this past weekend, @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I launched Black & White & Read All Over, our public scholarly website. One year ago today, Biscuits came home with us. Obviously one of those things is most important, so I'll start this week's blog thread with the site's page for her. +
Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over
blackwhiteandread.com
I’ve been working on the cinnamon rolls- turns out the smaller ones seem dinky but it’s good to have varied sizes since some people like larger cinnamon rolls and others want a small one or seconds with a small one.
What does it mean when robots act human? What about when robots perceive & learn the world, dole out advice, express what could be interpreted as more than a brain- but also heart? Why do some human characters in this book seem more robot? This book is about technology &humanities: Klara and the Sun
How it started, how it’s going First time making cinnamon rolls and I’m learning a lot
I had a really wonderful time visiting Washington State University Pullman for the Pettyjohn Memorial History Lecture! Quyaana! 🗃️ Coordinated by Dr Ryan Booth, intro by Dr Lawrence Hatter. Link to YouTube here: youtu.be/zQAujBICiBE?...
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices From World War II By Dr. Holly Miowak Guise (IÑUPIAQ)
YouTube video by WSU Department of History
youtu.be
I had a really wonderful time visiting Washington State University Pullman for the Pettyjohn Memorial History Lecture! Quyaana! 🗃️ Coordinated by Dr Ryan Booth, intro by Dr Lawrence Hatter. Link to YouTube here: youtu.be/zQAujBICiBE?...
Alaska Native Resilience: Voices From World War II By Dr. Holly Miowak Guise (IÑUPIAQ)
YouTube video by WSU Department of History
youtu.be
WSU Pullman archives has several collections about the WWII Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This yearbook shows Japanese American high school students- when I saw this I thought of the supportive adults & students wanting to maintain this tradition of a yearbook- even during times of hardship 🗃️
WSU Pullman archives has several collections about the WWII Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This yearbook shows Japanese American high school students- when I saw this I thought of the supportive adults & students wanting to maintain this tradition of a yearbook- even during times of hardship 🗃️
Washington State University Pullman archives visit with Dr Ryan Booth- amazing tour by Will and Lotus. We viewed some 1890s Alaska photographs. This photo of 3 Inuit men is from: Lomen Brothers Collection 🗃️
I’m looking forward to visiting Washington State University Department of History and WSU Libraries on Monday September 14! See you there if you’re in the area 🗃️ Excited to share Alaska Native history! libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/08...
September 14 Pettyjohn Lecture Describes Alaska Native History during World War II – WSU Libraries
libraries.wsu.edu
Also adding here that I have not worked this hard as a writer in a while- (!) in the past two weeks, I sent two paper drafts, one for a symposium group to workshop, the other for a festschrift. Then, a symposium from 2+ years ago is asking for final edits on a different paper by next week.
I’m looking forward to visiting Washington State University Department of History and WSU Libraries on Monday September 14! See you there if you’re in the area 🗃️ Excited to share Alaska Native history! libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/08...
September 14 Pettyjohn Lecture Describes Alaska Native History during World War II – WSU Libraries
libraries.wsu.edu
It seems the biggest part of editing it cutting.
Holly Guise ❄️@hollyguise.bsky.social · last mo.Editing is so odd- l’m reviewing a draft of a paper accepted for an anthology from 2 plus years ago- and with totally fresh eyes I see what arguments work and what doesn’t. I also see where I can tighten my writing. It’s amazing how time and space give enough distance to really work a paper.
Diversity is not an ideology. It is an American reality. Removing the study of race, gender, culture, and identity from the core does not protect students from politics—it makes a political choice to leave them unprepared for the world.
Editing is so odd- l’m reviewing a draft of a paper accepted for an anthology from 2 plus years ago- and with totally fresh eyes I see what arguments work and what doesn’t. I also see where I can tighten my writing. It’s amazing how time and space give enough distance to really work a paper.
Me- enjoying the new Halloween Where’s Waldo book before the kids
My research in the Alaska Native newspaper “The Tundra Times” took me down this rabbit hole- where an Alaska Native case study from the 1960s/1970s is here- from southeast Alaska This is tangential to my research, but my curiosity to this reference made me see what this author said.
#Skystorians I just finished Jeongmin Kim’s fantastic book “Black Market Intimacies” on the relationship between civilian/military/gender/sex & the wartime economy & daily encounters of black market exchanges where aid goods, military rations, & sex entangled during the Korean War. Amazing photos 🗃️
Dr Jeongmin Kim uncovers rare archival finds on the ways that gender and sex very much informed a black market wartime economy in Korea linking Asia (Korea and Japan) and North America (the US) including multiple forms of migration from civilians, post-war marriages, & deployment during occupation.
#Skystorians I just finished Jeongmin Kim’s fantastic book “Black Market Intimacies” on the relationship between civilian/military/gender/sex & the wartime economy & daily encounters of black market exchanges where aid goods, military rations, & sex entangled during the Korean War. Amazing photos 🗃️
