The Alaska Native Reader

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ISBN: 9780822344650 | 0822344653
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/2009

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"The predominance of indigenous voices in "The Alaska Native Reader "will help correct the disgraceful imbalance in the way that the history of Alaska has been recorded and constructed. The reasons for the imbalance lie in the very history that is exposed here."--Charlotte Townsend-Gault, University of British Columbia

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Alaska and Its People: An Introduction	p. 1
Portraits of Nations: Telling Our Own Story	p. 13
Lazeni 'linn Natae?de Ghadghaande: When Russians Were Killed at ôRoasted Salmon Placeö (Batzulnetas)	p. 15
The Fur Rush: A Chronicle of Colonial Life	p. 28
Redefining Our Planning Traditions: Caribou Fences, Community, and the Neetsaii Experience	p. 42
Memories of My Trap Line	p. 49
Cultural Identity through Yupiaq Narrative	p. 56
Dena'ina Einena: Dena'ina Country: The Dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska	p. 67
Qanaynramta Egmiucia: Continuing Onr Language	p. 85
DegXinag Oral Traditions: Reconnecting Indigenous Language and Education through Traditional Narratives	p. 91
The Alaskan Haida Language Today: Reasons for Hope	p. 106
Empire: Processing Colonisation	p. 115
Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being	p. 121
Angoon Remembers: The Religious Significance of Balance and Reciprocity	p. 144
The Comity Agreement: Missionization of Alaska Native People	p. 151
Dena'ina Heritage and Representation in Anchorage: A Collaborative Project	p. 163
How It Feels to Have Your History Stolen	p. 176
Undermining Our Tribal Governments: The Stripping of Land, Resources, and Rights from Alaska Native Nations	p. 178
Terra Incognita: Communities and Resource Wars	p. 184
Why the Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim	p. 192
A Brief History of Native Solidarity	p. 202
Worldviews: Alaska Native and Indigenous Epistemologies	p. 217
A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit	p. 221
The Cosmos; Indigenous Perspectives	p. 230
Seeing Mathematics with Indian Eyes	p. 237
What Is Truth? Where Western Science and Traditional Knowledge Converge	p. 246
The Yup'ik and Cup'ik People	p. 252
Native Arts: A Weaving of Melody and Color	p. 257
Ugiuvangmiut Illugiit Atuut. Teasing Cousins Songs of the King Island Iñupiat	p. 261
Fly by night mythology: An Indigenous Guide to White Man, or How to Stay Sane When the World Makes No Sense	p. 272
Kodiak Masks: A Personal Odyssey	p. 283
Artifacts in Sound: A Century of Field Recordings of Alaska Natives	p. 294
Digital Media as a Means of Self Discovery: Identity Affirmations in Modern Technology	p. 306
America's Wretched	p. 309
The Alaska Native Arts Festival	p. 318
Conflict and Counter-Myth in the Film Smoke Signals	p. 321
Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction	p. 333
Ravenstcdes	p. 337
Poems	p. 339
Poem	p. 351
Living in the Arctic	p. 352
Tunnel? . . . What Tunnel?	p. 356
Daisy's Best-Ever Moose Stew	p. 360
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 363
Acknowledgment of Copyrights	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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