UID:
almafu_9959677593302883
Format:
1 online resource (420 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06489-8
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9786613064899
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0-8223-9083-3
Series Statement:
The world readers
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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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).
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4480-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4465-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822390831
