ISBN:
0822390833
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0822344653
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0822344807
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9780822390831
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9780822344650
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9780822344803
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xix, 387 p.))
,
ill., maps, music
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The world readers
Parallel Title:
Print version Alaska native reader
DDC:
305.897/0798
Keywords:
Alaska Natives
;
Alaska History
;
Alaska Civilization
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Alaska and Its People: An Introduction; I. Portraits of Nations: Telling Our Own Story; Lazeni 'linn Nataełde Ghadghaande: When Russians Were Killed at"Roasted Salmon Place" (Batzulnetas); The Fur Rush: A Chronicle of Colonial Life; Redefining Our Planning Traditions: Caribou Fences, Community,and the Neetsaii Experience; Memories of My Trap Line; Cultural Identity through Yupiaq Narrative; Dena'ina Ełnena: Dena'ina Country: The Dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska; Qaneryaramta Egmiucia: Continuing Our Language
Description / Table of Contents:
Deg Xinag Oral Traditions: Reconnecting Indigenous Language and Educationthrough Traditional NarrativesThe Alaskan Haida Language Today: Reasons for Hope; II. Empire: Processing Colonization; Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being; Angoon Remembers: The Religious Significance of Balance and Reciprocity; The Comity Agreement: Missionization of Alaska Native People; Dena'ina Heritage and Representation in Anchorage: A Collaborative Project; How It Feels to Have Your History Stolen; Undermining Our Tribal Governments: The Stripping of Land, Resources,and Rights from Alaska Native Nations
Description / Table of Contents:
Terra Incognita: Communities and Resource WarsWhy the Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim; A Brief History of Native Solidarity; III. Worldviews: Alaska Native and Indigenous Epistemologies; A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit; The Cosmos: Indigenous Perspectives; Seeing Mathematics with Indian Eyes; What Is Truth? Where Western Science and Traditional Knowledge Converge; The Yup'ik and Cup'ik People; IV. Native Arts: A Weaving of Melody and Color; Ugiuvangmiut Illugiit Atuut: Teasing Cousins Songs of the King Island Iñupiat
Description / Table of Contents:
Fly by Night Mythology: An Indigenous Guide to White Man, or How to Stay Sane When the World Makes No SenseKodiak Masks: A Personal Odyssey; Artifacts in Sound: A Century of Field Recordings of Alaska Natives; Digital Media as a Means of Self Discovery: Identity Affirmations inModern Technology; America's Wretched; The Alaska Native Arts Festival; Conflict and Counter-Myth in the Film Smoke Signals; Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction; V. Ravenstales; Poems; Poem; Living in the Arctic; Tunnel? . . . What Tunnel?; Daisy's Best-Ever Moose Stew; Suggestions for Further Reading
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgment of CopyrightsIndex
Description / Table of Contents:
Alaska and its people : an introduction / Maria Sháa Tláa WilliamsLazeni '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 Sháa 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 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 Sháa 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 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).
Note:
Description based on print version record
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390831?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390831
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