Making history
Subtitle: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq life on the Alaska Peninsula
By: Patricia H. Partnow.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Fairbanks, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos -- History.; Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos -- Social life and customs.; Alaska Peninsula (Alaska) -- History.
Description: Documents about the Alutiiq people of the Alaska Peninsula, written by outsiders, tell a familiar story of political subjugation, economic deprivation, and cultural loss. But recordings of oral traditions and personal histories by the Alutiiqs themselves tell a different tale. These narratives, woven together here with written records and scholarly commentary into an ethnohistory, show that Alutiiqs have been making their own history for millennia. Through stories and actions, Alutiiqs not only affect the course of their lives, but in so doing express a unique perception of the very nature of history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction i; title: How This Book Came Abouti; title: History and Ethnohistory 2; title: History as Interpretation 5; title: How This Book is Arranged7; title: The Storytellers8; title: Perryville; title: Ivanof Bay; title: Chignik Lake; title: Chignik Bay; title: Port Heiden; title: Chignik Lagoon; title: South Naknek; title: Other Storytellers; title: Alutiiqs and the Land 6; title: The Land 7; title: Alaska Peninsula Inhabitants2; title: The Precontact Period on; title: the Alaska Peninsula 28; title: Origins 28; title: Precontact Culture as Reported by the Russians 32 The Russian Period on the; title: Alaska Peninsula: 74I to I86755; title: Europeans Learn about the Alaska Peninsula 55; title: Russian Economic Interests in the Alaska Peninsula 57; title: 1780s to 1818; title: 1818 to 1867; title: Russians Along the Katmai Coast and the Naknek River; title: Drainage 67; title: Baidarshchiks; title: Katmai in the Nineteenth Century; title: Russian Period Alutiiq Settlements 72; title: Russian Orthodoxy and the Alutiiqs 76; title: Creoles 87; title: Effects of Company and Church on Alaska Peninsula; title: Alutiiqs88; title: Population Decline; title: Changes in Warfare and Trading Practices; title: Subsistence; title: Beginning of anAlutiiq Identity; title: The American Period, 1867 to 91202; title: The American Fur Trade Io2; title: End of the Fur Trade121; title: Subsistence25; title: Commercial Fishing and Other Economic Opportunities; title: on the Alaska Peninsula30; title: Creoles in the American Period37; title: Alaska Peninsula Villages in the Nineteenth Century 139; title: Religion 154; title: Gambling as Control: The Game of Kaataq 159; title: Health 63; title: Dawning of the Twentieth Century64 Katmai, 1912 74; title: The Katmai Eruption74; title: Posteruption SettlementsI89 The American Period, 1912 to World War II 93; title: Social StructureI93; title: Population Dynamics I98; title: Population Increase; title: Villages; title: Economy 21o; title: Subsistence and the Continuation of Tradition; title: Fishing and Cannery Work; title: Furs; title: Reindeer; title: Education 241; title: Organized Religion242; title: Disasters, Natural and Human 243; title: Postscript: World War II and Life after the War 249; title: Afterword: History Made and Remade 256; title: References Cited 260; title: Index273.