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"Gumboot Determination: the little old ladies from the villages"
By Peter Metcalfe
Committees get no respect, least of all a committee composed of grandmotherly Alaska Native women from villages who appear to be preoccupied with their knitting. But it was a committee like this — 16 members, all women but one, and most from small Native communities — that in 1975 founded the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC, pronounced "search"). Their mission was to improve health care for Alaska Natives living in the region. READ MORE 
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Stroll through a collection of compelling contemporary Alaskan work brought together through the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. The Fund supports living, practicing Alaskan artists through museum purchases, enhances the permanent art collections of Alaskan museums, and encourages Alaskan museums to develop formal collections policies.

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