AFN President’s Awards Honorees for 2022 launched

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – Yearly, AFN honors those that have made excellent contributions to their households and the Native group with awards.

The Well being award goes to an Alaska Native who reveals sturdy dedication, competence, and delicate care within the well being area, and whose accomplishments approve well being look after Alaska Natives.

Elizabeth Aarons acquired the Well being award.

Aarons is a registered nurse at Alaska Native Medical Middle (ANMC) the place she works within the Important Care unit, COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes, and the Oncology and Infusion Middle.

Aarons is Iñupiaq from Unalakleet and says her curiosity in drugs comes from a protracted line of Indigenous healers in her household.

The Girl of Braveness award originated from Hannah Paul Solomon, who was an American group chief and artist.

Paul Solomon died in 2011 and was launched to the Alaska Girls’s Corridor of Fame in 2012.

June (Simeonoff) Pardue was named the Girl of Braveness.

Pardue, this 12 months’s awardee, is an Alutiiq and Iñupiaq artist, educator, and tradition bearer who teaches on the College of Alaska-Kenai Peninsula School, College of Alaska-Anchorage, and Alaska Pacific College.

She is a cultural developer and teacher for the Matanuska Susitna Borough College District and serves as an Elder Tradition Bearer, teacher, and storyteller for the Knik Tribal Council in Palmer.

Pardue can be an completed Alutiiq grass weaver, fish pores and skin tanner, fish leather-based and sea mammal pores and skin jeweler, and beader.

The Katie John Hunter-Fisher award goes to an Alaska Native who demonstrates the spirit of profitable subsistence looking, trapping, and sharing.

The Katie John Hunter-Fisher award goes to Roy Ashenfelter of White Mountain.

Ashenfelter is Iñupiaq and grew up subsistence looking and fishing.

He serves as an advocate for the fish, caribou, and lands in his work and the boards he serves on.

At the moment working at Kawerak Inc, he travels throughout the area and assisted these with Native allotments.

The Roger Yang Youth Management award is in honor of the late Roger Lang, former AFN president.

Lang inspired younger individuals to problem themselves in management roles.

Golga Oscar was awarded the Roger Lang Youth Management.

Oscar is a Yup’ik artist, born and raised in Kasigluk.

Oscar has led varied initiatives, reminiscent of pores and skin stitching, basket weaving, and quillwork, beadwork, walrus ivory carving, exploring Yup’ik Native jewellery.

As a fluent Yup’ik speaker, Oscar is devoted to maintaining his tradition and traditions related by instructing the subsequent technology about their language and artwork.

The Small Enterprise award is awarded to somebody who has proven success in enterprise and dedication to the group.

Michael Fredericks, a small enterprise proprietor of SALT,  was awarded Small Enterprise.

SALT is an Alaska Native women-owned inside design and strategic engagement agency in Anchorage.

Fredericks is of Yup’ik descent and was born and raised in Anchorage.

Gin’tith (Richard Frank) Army Service award goes to an Alaska Native who has proven a robust will to serve within the U.S Armed Forces in protection of america of America.

Nathaniel (Saaduuts) Mitchell acquired the award of Army Service.

Mitchell is a Haida and Tlingit veteran, who served 24 years within the Navy.

Mitchell is Yahkw ‘Láanaas (Raven/Shark) clan and joined the Navy in 1997.

Glenn Godfrey Legislation Enforcement award was named for the late Glenn Godfrey, Colonel, and Director of Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Commissioner of Public Security.

The Glenn Godfrey Legislation Enforcement award went to Lieutenant Brian Wassman.

Iñupiaq with household in Nome and the Bering Straits Area, Wassman turned a state trooper after graduating from the College of Alaska Fairbanks, fulfilling a lifelong purpose of his.

After serving the Alaska State Troopers for 29 years, he lately retired and has labored in a number of rural communities.

This 12 months, Wassman completed his profession because the Deputy Commander of the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage, the place he was passionate in regards to the security of victims of home violence.

The Eileen Panigeo MacLean Schooling award is called after the late state Legislator, and elementary and bilingual instructor, Eileen Panigeo.

This award acknowledges an Alaska Native who’s dedicated to creating competence and sensitivity within the instructional area, and whose accomplishments have improved instructional alternatives for Alaska Natives.

Mike Webber acquired the Eileen Panigeo MacLean Schooling award.

Webber is an Alutiiq and Tlingit/Eyak Northwest Coast grasp carver from Cordova.

A fisherman from six years previous, Webber endured a life-changing accident on his family-run seine boat that led him to find carving.

He has now been carving for the final 20 years, incomes the standing of grasp carver and world-renowned Alaska Native artist.

His paintings may be present in museums from Alaska to Washington D.C, and as far south because the Grand Cayman Islands.