Oscar Kawagley

Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley , best known as Oscar Kawagley, was a Yupik anthropologist, teacher and actor from Alaska. He was an associate professor of education at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks until his death in 2011. The Anchorage Daily News described him as one of most influential teachers and thinkers.

He was born in Bethel, Alaska. He was raised by his grandmother in traditional tribal ways, and as a child he spoke only Yupik. He was reportedly the first Yupik native to graduate from high school in Bethel. He received a bachelors degree in education from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, in 1958. He received a PhD in social and educational studies from at the University of British Columbia. Over the course of a prolific career, he explored how the Yupik concepts he learned as a boy on the tundra could work in concert with western education and he became a pioneer in the field of indigenous knowledge, not just in Alaska but in the academic world at large.

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