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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If text messages cost money again more people would call each other

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The photo doesn’t do it justice- Really amazing coastal view with gigantic waves crashing on the arch Hōlei Sea Arch

Middle age(!) woman standing at a lava rocky dark shoreline with Pacific Ocean in background, Hōlei Sea Arch in far background, sun setting in distance

Closer image of Hōlei Sea Arch from 2025, the waves don’t show but from the far background you can see how big the waves are that crash

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw this before it fell- stunning. When I told my kids this morning my son said, “Shoot. It looked like an elephant.”

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had a great working group meeting today on zoom with the CU Boulder “Translators of the American West” symposium crew- thank you to all my colleagues for the constructive feedback! In the coming months, I’ll revise my essay focusing on oral histories with Alaska Native elders

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One year ago this past weekend, @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I launched Black & White & Read All Over, our public scholarly website. One year ago today, Biscuits came home with us. Obviously one of those things is most important, so I'll start this week's blog thread with the site's page for her. +

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Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been working on the cinnamon rolls- turns out the smaller ones seem dinky but it’s good to have varied sizes since some people like larger cinnamon rolls and others want a small one or seconds with a small one.

Cinnamon rolls before baking, a dozen cut of various sizes lined on a greased pan, a hand towel half covering the rolls to rise

Four warm cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting, plated with forks, ready to eat! On top of a counter

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What does it mean when robots act human? What about when robots perceive & learn the world, dole out advice, express what could be interpreted as more than a brain- but also heart? Why do some human characters in this book seem more robot? This book is about technology &humanities: Klara and the Sun

Book cover of “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro, a red cover with a yellow cartoon hand with a sun in the palm.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How it started, how it’s going First time making cinnamon rolls and I’m learning a lot

Cut cinnamon rolls (12) before going in the oven, hand in lower left corner of the baking pan

Homemade cinnamon roll on a small plate with blue flower trim, cream cheese frosting slathered all over the top

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had a really wonderful time visiting Washington State University Pullman for the Pettyjohn Memorial History Lecture! Quyaana! 🗃️ Coordinated by Dr Ryan Booth, intro by Dr Lawrence Hatter. Link to YouTube here: youtu.be/zQAujBICiBE?...

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Alaska Native Resilience: Voices From World War II By Dr. Holly Miowak Guise (IÑUPIAQ)

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Alaska Native Resilience: Voices From World War II By Dr. Holly Miowak Guise (IÑUPIAQ)

YouTube video by WSU Department of History

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WSU Pullman archives has several collections about the WWII Heart Mountain Relocation Center. This yearbook shows Japanese American high school students- when I saw this I thought of the supportive adults & students wanting to maintain this tradition of a yearbook- even during times of hardship 🗃️

Yearbook from 1945 from Heart Mountain Relocation Center, the cover is blue with an airplane outline and the word “Tempo” at the bottom. A hand holds the book open. Archive box in the background on a desk surface.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Washington State University Pullman archives visit with Dr Ryan Booth- amazing tour by Will and Lotus. We viewed some 1890s Alaska photographs. This photo of 3 Inuit men is from: Lomen Brothers Collection 🗃️

Black and white photograph of three Inuit men wearing parkas one posed behind the other. Folder in the background says “Eskimos” from folder 2

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking forward to visiting Washington State University Department of History and WSU Libraries on Monday September 14! See you there if you’re in the area 🗃️ Excited to share Alaska Native history! libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/08...

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September 14 Pettyjohn Lecture Describes Alaska Native History during World War II – WSU Libraries

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also adding here that I have not worked this hard as a writer in a while- (!) in the past two weeks, I sent two paper drafts, one for a symposium group to workshop, the other for a festschrift. Then, a symposium from 2+ years ago is asking for final edits on a different paper by next week.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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September 14 Pettyjohn Lecture Describes Alaska Native History during World War II – WSU Libraries

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It seems the biggest part of editing it cutting.

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Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Diversity is not an ideology. It is an American reality. Removing the study of race, gender, culture, and identity from the core does not protect students from politics—it makes a political choice to leave them unprepared for the world.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Editing is so odd- l’m reviewing a draft of a paper accepted for an anthology from 2 plus years ago- and with totally fresh eyes I see what arguments work and what doesn’t. I also see where I can tighten my writing. It’s amazing how time and space give enough distance to really work a paper.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Me- enjoying the new Halloween Where’s Waldo book before the kids

Where’s Waldo “ghostly treasure” page filled with hundreds of pirates, a Waldo hiding in the backdrop, a wizard walking among the pirates, and general cartoon whimsy

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My research in the Alaska Native newspaper “The Tundra Times” took me down this rabbit hole- where an Alaska Native case study from the 1960s/1970s is here- from southeast Alaska This is tangential to my research, but my curiosity to this reference made me see what this author said.

Book cover of Children who Remember Previous Lives a Question of Reimcarnation by Ian Stevenson, MD. Shows a child’s half face and eye in many colors from purple to green to blue. Hand holding the book up on a couch.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#Skystorians I just finished Jeongmin Kim’s fantastic book “Black Market Intimacies” on the relationship between civilian/military/gender/sex & the wartime economy & daily encounters of black market exchanges where aid goods, military rations, & sex entangled during the Korean War. Amazing photos 🗃️

Book cover of “Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War” by Jeongmin Kim. Hand holding the book, southwest rug in background

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dr Jeongmin Kim uncovers rare archival finds on the ways that gender and sex very much informed a black market wartime economy in Korea linking Asia (Korea and Japan) and North America (the US) including multiple forms of migration from civilians, post-war marriages, & deployment during occupation.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remembering how my son sang “Baleen” to the tune of Jolene 🎶

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The logo of the trex holding the book shows a symbol of making the book extinct

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When my mind works too hard from thinking and writing I am somehow starving for an early lunch #amwriting #amediting

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Coming to Netflix 2029: Nicolas Cage stars in a film adaptation of the story of how Nicolas Cage’s historical spy film Fortitude was stolen

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When traveling and the luggage is too heavy it’s best to put grocery-type items in the grocery bag that’s now an extra carry on- rather than dirty laundry I suppose

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This post has a life today- so sharing that one of the things I found in the American Indian Studies Papers in a folder on financial aid was a letter from the 1970s written by an elder- I had interviewed in Alaska- about aid for Alaska Native students at SDSU. Very cool find! Made me smile big. 🗃️

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not a pen in sight- using the pack of crayons from the restart to write in my planner before I forget

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Picked up @hollyguise.bsky.social 's book today at Birchbark with my Indie Bookstore Day discount. 💘

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One of the best pieces of advice I received from a faculty mentor in grad school was not to tie my entire identity into being a scholar, that each individual has several identities. It honestly made it easier for me to make major life decisions based on my gut and never an ascribed identity.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jello chocolate pudding dirt cups with crushed Girl Scout thin mint cookies topped with raspberries

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There’s something in the cushions—

Tiny hand reaching over a large couch cushion where someone is hiding ready to prank someone walking by

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Dad: do you want to watch Messi later today? Kids: Yessi

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Summer read aloud with the kids- Nancy Drew’s “The Mystery at Lilac Inn” it’s a creepy one! The kids are learning new vocabulary words too- almost every page has new words 📚 🐛

Book cover of Nancy Drew book number four with a luminescent woman behind a lilac brush encountering a brunette woman. A hand is holding the book and kids feet are in the background

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I'd start with @hollyguise.bsky.social Alaska Native Resilience or Julie Reed's Land, Language, Women

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On the long American tradition of buying sovereignty, Greenland, colonialism, an AI penguin, and the grimy history of the president’s grandfather in the far north www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Strategic Amnesia | Bathsheba Demuth

Denying that history could have been otherwise or making conquest subject to some unwritten statute of limitations are both ways of cloaking not just the US’s imperial past but its continuation into t...

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I miss the way my grandma talked with intonations in her voice. When she said a word in Inupiaq or English she spoke deliberately and her intonations would rise and fall with each word. She would even say my name like “Haaalee” with the “a” sound in my name rising then falling with the “lee” sound.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My cousin James Dommek Jr. has a book that was turned into a Hulu show, Midnight Son

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Alaskan Lisa @alaskanlisa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Here’s a few more: Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson (she’s got some anthology-published short stories, too) Menadelook by Eileen Norbert Winter Walk and Storytellers Club by Loretta Outwatwer Cox Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia Heavener And of course, there are books by Hayes, Kane, Wallis.

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I have no words 🥹 Alaska Native Resilience is prominently displayed in the front of a store in the “about Alaska” section

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

👇This There’s several Alaska Native fiction & non-fiction writers of our generation and previous generations

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Spotted in the archives at CU Boulder- Anchorage Daily News with a map of Alaska 1995 Possibly one of the more random maps of Alaska I’ve seen

Cartoon map of Alaska where Alaska looks like a desperate/worried cartoon man with a hand reached out where the Aleutians are

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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Spotted in the archives- 1978 Alaska Hunters’ Convention Why was I tempted to add “tag yourselves” with this post?

Photo of a magazine at the archives on a desk, the pages show photographs of people celebrating by at the 1978 Alaska Hunters’ Convention

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