Enlightenment and exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805

Alaska and the North Pacific : a crossroads of empires / Spain's role in Pacific exploration during the age of enlightenment / George Vancouver, the admiralty, and exploration / Lapérouse 1786 : a French naval visit to Alaska / Ethnology in the enlightenment : the voyage of Alejandro Malaspina in the Pacific / Health of mariners : Vancouver's achievement / Evolution of shipbuilding in the eighteenth century / Testing a new technology : Vancouver's survey and navigation in Alaskan waters, 1794 / From Cook to Vancouver : the British contribution to the cartography of Alaska / Russian mapping of the North Pacific to 1792 / Vancouver : cautious collector / Images of native Alaskans in the work of explorer artists / Publication and readership of voyage journals in the age of Vancouver, 1730-1830 / Efforts at humane engagement : Indian-Spanish encounters in Bucareli Bay, 1779 / George Vancouver and the native peoples of the northwest coast

Native Americans and the environment : perspectives on the ecological Indian

Foreword / Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Shepard Krech and his critics -- Beyond The ecological Indian / The ecological Indian and the politics of representation : critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Myths of the ecological whitemen : histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / (Over)hunting large game -- Did the ancestors of Native Americans cause animal extinctions in late-pleistocene North America? : and does it matter if they did? / Rationality and resource use among hunters : some Eskimo examples / Wars over buffalo : stories versus stories on the northern Plains / Representations of Indians and animals -- Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature

Traditional ecological knowledge -- Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Contemporary resource management issues -- The politics of cultural revitalization and intertribal resource management : the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota / Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste : environment, identity, and sovereignty / Afterword / List of contributors -- Index.

The Alaska native reader : history, culture, politics

The world readers

World readers.

Alaska and its people : an introduction / Lazeni 'linn Nataełde Ghadghaande : when Russians were killed at "Roasted Salmon Place" (Batzulnetas) / The fur rush : a chronicle of colonial life / Redefining our planning traditions : caribou fences, community, and the Neetsaii experience / Memories of my trap line / Cultural identity through Yupiaq narrative / Dena'ina Ełnena : Dena'ina country : the dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska / Qaneryaramta egmiucia : continuing our language / Deg Xinag oral traditions : reconnecting Indigenous language and education through traditional narratives / The Alaskan Haida language today : reasons for hope / Yuuyaraq : the way of the human being / Angoon remembers : the religious significance of balance and reciprocity / The Comity Agreement : missionization of Alaska Native people / Dena'ina heritage and representation in Anchorage : a collaborative project / How it feels to have your history stolen / Undermining our tribal governments : the stripping of land, resources, and rights from Alaska Native nations / Terra incognita : communities and resource wars / Why the natives of Alaska have a land claim / A brief history of Native solidarity / A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit / The cosmos : Indigenous perspectives / Seeing mathematics with Indian eyes / What is truth? where Western science and traditional knowledge converge / The Yup'ik and Cup'ik people / Ugiuvangmiut illugiit atuut : teasing cousin songs of the King Island Iñupiat / Fly by night mythology : an Indigenous guide to white man, or how to stay sane when the world makes no sense / Kodiak masks : a personal odyssey / Artifacts in sound : a century of field recordings of Alaska Natives / Digital media as a means of self discovery : identity affirmations in modern technology / America's wretched / The Alaska Native arts festival / Conflict and counter-myth in the film Smoke signals / Alaska Native literature : an updated introduction / Poems / Poem / Living in the Arctic / Tunnel? . . .what tunnel? / Daisy's best-ever moose stew