“When our families conduct their rituals, we always give offerings to sun. It is the source of light in our lives.”

Jan 8

Jegor Nutendli (yay-gor new-tend-lee)

knowledge holder

IMAGE SOURCE: Tero Mustonen. “Snowchange Oral History: Work Among the Kolyma River Indigenous Societies in Siberia, Russia.” Blog post. Snowchange. 2006. | QUOTE SOURCE: Tero Mustonen. “Snowchange Oral History: Work Among the Kolyma River Indigenous… — IMAGE SOURCE: Tero Mustonen. “Snowchange Oral History: Work Among the Kolyma River Indigenous Societies in Siberia, Russia.” Blog post. Snowchange. 2006. | QUOTE SOURCE: Tero Mustonen. “Snowchange Oral History: Work Among the Kolyma River Indigenous Societies in Siberia, Russia.” Blog post. Snowchange. 2006.

QUOTE CONTEXT: "We worship the sun. And the return of sun after the long polar night, after the long winter darkness. We feed the fire and the sun. We have the waters, sky, sun, and the land.”

QUOTE QUESTION: What do you offer when you are in ritual?

IMAGE CONTEXT: Jegor Nutendli from the Nutendli Chukchi nomadic community, Lower Kolyma, Sakha-Yakutia, NE Siberia, Russia, greets the morning sun.

IMAGE QUESTION: Where do you stand to greet the sunrise?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and the photo are from a blog post by a cooperative organization devoted to the advancement of traditions and culture of Arctic peoples.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using digital media to tell others about your people?

“When our families conduct their rituals, we always give offerings to sun. It is the source of light in our lives.”

Jegor Nutendli (yay-gor new-tend-lee)

“Our Elders did not pray, they just talked with nature. I can do the same.”

“Nature has soul. Body rests when you are in nature. It is wonderful to walk on your own land.”