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The Alaska Native reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World readers.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- The world readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alaska Natives.
- Alaska--Civilization.
- Alaska.
- Alaska--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This portrayal of Native Alaska brings together essays, poems, songs, stories, maps, and visual art. Most of the selections are by Alaska Natives; many were written especially for this volume.
- Contents:
- Alaska and its people : an introduction / Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams
- Lazeni 'iinn Nataelde Ghadghaande : when Russians were killed at "Roasted salmon place" (Batlzulnetas) / James Kari, with Katie and Fred John (Athabascan)
- The fur rush : a chronicle of colonial life / Katerina Solovjova and Aleksandra A. Vovnyanko
- Redefining our planning traditions : Caribou fences, community, and the Neetsaii experience / Charlene Khaih Zhuu Stern (Neetsaii Gwich'in Athabascan)
- Memories of my trap line / Maria Bolanz
- Cultural identity through Yupiaq narrative / George P. Kanaqlak Charles (Yup'ik)
- Dena'ina e_nena : Dena'ina country : the dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska / James Fall
- Qaneryaramta egmiucia : continuing our language / Walkie Kumaggaq Charles (Yup'ik)
- Deg Xinag oral traditions : reconnecting Indigenous language and education through traditional narratives / Beth Ginondidoy Leonard (Deg Xinag Athabascan)
- The Alaskan Haida language today : reasons for hope / Jeane Breinig (Haida)
- Yuuyaraq : the way of the human being / Harold Napoleon (Yup'ik)
- Angoon remembers : the religious significance of balance and reciprocity / Nancy Furlow (Tlingit)
- The comity agreement : missionization of Alaska native people / Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams (Tlingit)
- Dena'ina heritage and representation in Anchorage : a collaborative project / Stephen J. Langdon and Aaron Leggett (Dena'ina Athabascan)
- How it feels to have your history stolen / Ted Mayac Sr. (King Island Inupiaq)
- Undermining our tribal governments : the stripping of land, resources, and rights from Alaska native nations / Evon Peter (Neetsaii Gwitch'in and Jewish)
- Terra incognita : communities and resource wars / Subhankar Banerjee
- Why the natives of Alaska have a land claim / William Iggiagruk Hensley (Inupiaq)
- A brief history of native solidarity / Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams (Tlingit)
- A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit / Oscar Angayuqaq Kawagley (Yupiaq)
- The cosmos : indigenous perspectives / Gregory A. Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo)
- Seeing Mathematics with Indian eyes / Claudette Engblom-Bradley (Schaghticoke)
- What is truth? where Western science and traditional knowledge converge / Lilian Na'ia Alessa
- The Yup'ik and Cup'ik people / Joan Pirciralria Hamilton (Cup'ik)
- Ugiuvangmiut illugiit atuut : teasing cousin songs of the King Island Inupiat / Deanna Paniataaq Kingston (Inupiaq)
- Fly by night mythology : an Indigenous guide to white man, or how to stay sane when te world makes no sense / Larry Mcneil (Tlingit and Nisga'a)
- Kodiak masks : a personal odyssey / Perry Eaton (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq)
- Artifacts in sound : a century of field recordings of Alaska natives / Craig Coray
- Digital media as a means of self discovery : identity affirmations in modern technology / Frank Francis-Chythlook (Yup'ik)
- America's wretched / Erica Lord (Inupiaq and Athabascan)
- The Alaska native arts festival / Tim Murphrey
- Conflict and counter-myth in the film smoke signals / Anna Smith Chiburis (Tlingit)
- Alaska native literature : an updated introduction / James Ruppert
- Poems / Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Tlingit) and Richard Dauenhauer
- Poem / G. Williams
- Living in the Arctic / Denise Cross Wartes
- Tunnel? . . .what tunnel? / Eleanor Hadden (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian)
- Daisy's best-ever moose stew / Daisy Stri da Zatse Demientieff (Athabascan).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064899
- 9781283064897
- 1283064898
- 9780822390831
- 0822390833
- OCLC:
- 823851036
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