Category Archive: Kivalina

Word of the Week

Drag: (drag) verb. 1. Pulling people around in a sled behind an ATV or sno-go. Recreation activity. See also, extreme sledding

Probably how I ended up preferring snowboarding to skiing.

Side note: When I first saw students “go drag”, I was reminded of my own childhood. We’d wait all winter for some good snow, then pull each other around by whatever vehicle could maneuver the snow, ice, or slush. It became a game. To win as a driver, you must knock the rider off in record time (making them bail by trying to ram them into objects was fair game). To win as the rider, you must hold on…even if it is only by your fingertips and you are being dragged across the ice.

 

 

 

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Word of the Week

Brodeo: (brō•dē•ō) noun. 1. Driving in tight circles with a vehicle (ATV), often causing the back wheels to slide out and around. See also: whipping cookies, shitties, doughnuts

 

 

 

Side note: Students have been doing this frequently on the road outside my living room view.

 

 

 

Word of the Week

Rack: (rak) noun. 1. A case of pop.

 

 

 

Side note: I often think of rack as a word that should pertain to something alcoholic, like a flight, when not pertaining to deer. (Or the stories I’ve heard about ‘running the rack’…), so when my students say something about someone buying them a rack, I always need to pause and remind myself of where I am.

 

 

Side note: I thought someone was teasing me because I was from Minnesota and we say ‘pop’, by offering me a pop…so I said “Sure, I’ll take a soda”…to later realize that in Alaska, they do indeed use ‘pop’. Home Sweet Home.