Sitting at their feet : = gookwaii eeghai dhidii : a young Gwich'in Athabascan's memoir
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Sitting at their feet : = gookwaii eeghai dhidii : a young Gwich'in Athabascan's memoir
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by Matt Gilbert ; edited by Agnes Portalewska and Debbie Miller.
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Edition:
Third edition 2/14/2017.
Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
Physical Description:
228 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781365681004
9781942078425
General Note:
"Second edition 1/14/2017. First edition 03/27/2014."
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Parallel title: Gookwaii eeghai dhidii
Contents:
Part I: Childhood Memoirs -- Chapter 1. Arctic Village and the Gwich'in Elders of Old -- Chapter 2. Childhood -- Chapter 3. The ambitious freshman -- Chapter 4. Comet Hale-Bopp and prom -- Chapter 5. A drifting college student.
Part 2: My First Homecoming -- Chapter 6. Homecoming -- Chapter 7. My Arctic refuge love story -- Chapter 8. Studying -- Chapter 9. Finishing college with speeches and honors -- Chapter 10. The summer after graduation -- Chapter 11. The community organizer part 1 -- Chapter 12. The community organizer part 2 -- Chapter 13. Washington DC and Oxford.
Part 3: My second homecoming -- Chapter 14. Tribal politics: taking Jonathan's seat -- Chapter 15. Indian country diaries part 1 -- Chapter 16. Indian country diaries part 2 -- Chapter 17. Indian country diaries part 3 -- Chapter 18. Indian country diaries part 4 -- Chapter 19. The Gwich'in land issues -- Chapter 20. Researcher.
Part 4: My third homecoming -- Chapter 21. Journeying home for the Elder stories -- Chapter 22. Graduation -- Appendix I. Poems -- Appendix II. The Senate hearing in Kotzebue -- Appendix III. Alaska Native elders on global warming -- Appendix IV. My essay to Columbia University.