Marie Meade Translator & Author

Ann Fienup-Riordan has lived and worked in Alaska since 1973. She has written and edited more than twenty books on Yup'ik history and oral traditions. Her most recent book with the University of Alaska Press is Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell: Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska. Marie Meade is a fluent Yup'ik speaker and an expert translator. She teaches Yup'ik at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Alice Rearden is a fluent Yup'ik speaker, and the primary translator and oral historian for the Alaska Council for Exceptional Children.