Baxter Bond Keynote Speaker at ÐÓ°Épro Native Research and Resiliency Event
ACEP’s Baxter Bond and UAF’s Walkie Charles, associate professor of linguistics, were the keynote speakers in the 2nd Annual event.
The event, held in Nome, brought together people from across ÐÓ°Épro to focus on ÐÓ°Épro Native community strengths, build capacity to do research by and for ÐÓ°Épro Native people, and to identify what youth, communities and institutions are doing to strengthen culture and well-being.
Bond, a staff member at ACEP and an adjunct instructor teaching introductory Yup'ik grammar, is the president of the and the drummer and song leader for the Iñu-Yupiaq Dance Group.
Baxter Bond was a keynote speaker at the ANCHRR event last week in Nome. Photo by JR Ancheta.