Born and raised in the inner city of Kansas City, Missouri, Olivia Hill moved in 1982 with her then-husband to the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq village of Tatitlek on Prince William Sound, where he had taken a teaching position.
“There’s a spirit of me that lives in Alaska,” Olivia Hill said about the years she spent in the North. “There’s something special about the very earth itself, and the land itself, that changed my life forever.”
“I want to share some parts of my story,” she said. “I want to be able to talk to Alaskans about my life and my experience of being a young African-American woman coming to Alaska in the early ‘80s.” “When I got there, I carried so many things with me,” she said. “Both my own preconceptions as well as things that have been indoctrinated in me and in others about who I would be. And I got some surprises, in many, many ways.”
“You can’t ever dismiss or forget the reality that that is what people are living with,” she said. “Being othered. Being less than. Not smart enough. Not pretty enough. Not good enough. You don’t work hard enough. There’s nothing you can do to change your reality.”
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