Teaching

Debby teaches  Alaska Native/​Native American Children’s Literature and Contemporary Inupiaq History at Ilisagvik College, Alaska's only tribal college.

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Blog Appearances

• On Lens Shifting with Cynthia Leitich Smith

• A Blog Post by Photographer and Storyteller Bill Hess

• Bookology: Skinny Dip with Debby Dahl Edwardson

• Kid Lit North: Where Ravens Roam and Writers Dream

• An early interview on 49 Writers

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Blogs and Websites to Watch

• Writer and Illustrator Nusugruk Rainy Hopson

• Website of Annie Patterson illustrator of Whale Snow

• Creative Decolonization--my daughter Aaluk's site

• Center for Healthy Minds--my nephew Cortland Dahl's work--integrating science and Buddhism.

• Why are you interviewing my Aapa: Filmmaking and empowerment—by my daughter Rachel

• Alaskool---Paul Oontagook's site, the best place to learn about Alaska's Native peoples

• Birchbark Books--Founded by National Book Award and Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Louise Erdrich

• Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope--regional tribal government for northern Alaska. My husband George is president.

• Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church, of which I am an elder

The winning quote from among these sites is from my daughter Rachel---which explains why I call Native American history, the hidden  history and why it is essential that this history be taught as part of American history, and why its absence explains why the American educational system is failing Native American students (and perpetuating racism in other students):

".... if our young people didn’t know their own history, the history their parents and grandparents had helped build; if they didn’t know where they came from, how did we expect them to know where they were going?"

---Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson