Ultimate Americans : Point Hope, Alaska, 1826-1909

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska,Ultimate Americansexamines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle,Ultimate Americanswill be invaluable reading for historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike.

Tom Lowenstein is the author of Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry, Ancient Land, Sacred Whale, and The Things That Were Said of Them.