This project centers the voices of Alaska Native elders and veterans by bridging institutional, federal and university archives, tribal archives, and oral histories.

I am an Iñupiaq historian from Anchorage and Unalakleet. I authored Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (University of Washington Press, 2024).

For feedback, inquiries about this project, or potential interviews, please contact me, Holly Miowak Guise, at worldwar2alaska @ gmail.com.

The following community organizations aided this project by providing space for interviews: The Alaska Humanities Forum, Alaska Veterans Museum, Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association Heritage Library, Alutiiq Museum, Anchorage Pioneer Home, Anchorage Senior Activities Center, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Elder Program, Fairbanks Native Association Elder Program, First Alaskans Institute, Nome Eskimo Community, Sealaska Heritage Institute, SEED Lab at the Anchorage Museum, Tuzzy Consortium Library at Iḷisaġvik College, XYZ Senior Center in Nome.

This project has been graciously supported by the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library, the APS Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellowship, the Cook Inlet Historical Society, Stanford University’s Center for the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Community Service Research Internship, the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Western History Association’s Walter Rundell Award, the Yale Oral History Travel Fellowship, and various fellowships from Yale University.

Special thanks to: Dwayne Pack, Media Director at the University of California, Irvine for assistance with video editing resources; and Sharon Block, PhD for her continued mentorship including in the field of digital humanities; Anna Hoover the videographer for Joe Senungetuk’s interview, 'Wáats'asdiyei Joe Yates the videographer for Marie Matsuno’s interview, and Taylor Strelevitz at the Alaska Humanities Forum.

All photos and videos by Holly Guise unless credited otherwise.