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Title:
The Alaska native reader : history, culture, politics
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Maria Sháa Tláa Williams.
Publication Information:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xix, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780822344650

9780822344803
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.
Subject Term:
Contents:
Alaska and its people : an introduction / Maria Shaa Tláa Williams -- Lazeni 'linn Nataełde Ghadghaande : when Russians were killed at "Roasted Salmon Place" (Batzulnetas) / James Kari, with Katie and Fred John (Athabascan) -- The fur rush : a chronicle of colonial life / Katerina G. Solovjova and Aleksandra A. Vovnyanko -- Redefining our planning traditions : caribou fences, community, and the Neetsaii experience / Charlene Khaih Zhuu Stern (Neetsaii Gwich'in) -- Memories of my trap line / Maria Bolanz -- Cultural identity through Yupiaq narrative / George P. Kanaqlak Charles (Yup'ik) -- Dena'ina Ełnena : Dena'ina country : the dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska / James A. 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 Tláa 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 Iñupiaq) -- Undermining our tribal governments : the stripping of land, resources, and rights from Alaska Native nations / Evon Peter (Neetsaii Gwitch'in Athabascan and Jewish) -- Terra incognita : communities and resource wars / Subhankar Banerjee -- Why the natives of Alaska have a land claim / William Iggiagruk Hensley (Iñupiaq) -- A brief history of Native solidarity / Maria Shaa Tláa 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 Iñupiat / Deanna Paniataaq Kingston (Iñupiaq) -- Fly by night mythology : an Indigenous guide to white man, or how to stay sane when the 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 (Iñupiaq 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 / C.G. Williams (Tlingit) -- 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).
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