Photo archive for June 9, 2008
A Native dancer covers his face with an eagle feather fan during the Celebration 2008 parade, in Juneau on June 7, 2008. Celebration 2008 marked the 26th year of the three-day dance-and-culture festival.
A group of foreign tourists look at a panoramic view of the Inca's citadel of Machu Picchu, in Cuzco, Peru, on March 26, 2008. Paolo Greer, a retired Alaska oil pipeline foreman, who has been digging through files in the United States and Peru for 30 years, said he has found maps and documents from the U.S. Library of Congress and several Peruvian archives showing that a German businessman had purchased land across from Machu Picchu in 1867, more than four decades before Hiram Bingham's rediscovery, and even set up a company to plunder the site.
Tiny Barril, dressed in traditional Tlingit regalia, watches the procession of the 2008 Celebration parade in Juneau on June 7, 2008. Celebration 2008 marks the 26th year of the three-day dance-and-culture festival. Event planners expected 5,000 people from Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian heritage to attend, including 52 dance groups and approximately 2,300 dancers from Alaska, Canada and the contiguous United States.
Matthew Stevens sits with portraits of Athabascan leaders in the office of Denakkanaaga on Friday, June 6, 2008. Stevens is the administrative accounting coordinator at Denakkanaaga, “Our Elders Speak,” that serves and supports the elders of the Doyon/Tanana Chiefs region.
Lynn Mayo carries a head of Butter lettuce she picked for her family Friday, June 6, 2008, in one of their Spinach Creek Farm greenhouses. With the cost of produce rising, many more consumers are turing to locally produced food. Spinach Creek, the longest operating Community Supported Agriculture program, can not expand their family run operation to support more members.
(Left to Right) Neal Brown, Dan Wietchy, Nanne Myers and Robert Kreiser assist in the high altitude balloon’s lift off on May 10, 2008.
