A good sign for Native artist after Etsy relists his sea otter crafts

2/16/2018

Marcus Gho hunts for sea otters on June 8, 2013, near Pleasant Island in Icy Strait. Gho, who is Inupiaq Eskimo, lives in Juneau and creates items using sea otter fur. (Photo courtesy Marcus Gho)

An international e-commerce retailer has relisted items that a Juneau resident crafted from sea otter fur.

It happened on Saturday, after the Alaska Native artist petitioned Etsy to relist the items, and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan exchanged some letters with the company. (Read more at ktoo.org)

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Tripp J Crouse (Ojibwe, descendent of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) has worked in print journalism and broadcasting for 15-plus years, and currently represents Alaska and serves as 2019 chair of the Station Advisory Committee for Native Public Media, a national organization that offers support services to Tribal and Native public radio stations. Tripp is also a member of the Native American Journalists Association and Alaska Press Club. Prior to working at 90.3 KNBA in Anchorage, Tripp worked at KTOO in Juneau and the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa.

A good sign for Native artist after Etsy relists his sea otter crafts

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