The Alaska native reader
Subtitle: history, culture, politics
By: edited by Maria Sháa Tláa Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Maria Sháa Tláa, 1958-
Series: The world readers; World readers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780822344650; 9780822344803
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Alaska -- Civilization; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Eskimos -- Alaska; Alaska -- Civilization; Alaska -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alaska and its people : an introduction / Maria Sháa Tláa Williams; title: Lazeni 'iinn Nataelde Ghadghaande : when Russians were killed at "Roasted salmon place" (Batlzulnetas) / James Kari, with Katie and Fred John (Athabascan); title: The fur rush : a chronicle of colonial life / Katerina Solovjova and Aleksandra A. Vovnyanko; title: Redefining our planning traditions : Caribou fences, community, and the Neetsaii experience / Charlene Khaih Zhuu Stern (Neetsaii Gwich'in Athabascan); title: Memories of my trap line  / Maria Bolanz; title: Cultural identity through Yupiaq narrative / George P. Kanaqlak Charles (Yup'ik); title: Dena'ina e_nena : Dena'ina country : the dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska / James Fall; title: Qaneryaramta egmiucia : continuing our language / Walkie Kumaggaq Charles (Yup'ik); title: Deg Xinag oral traditions : reconnecting Indigenous language and education through traditional narratives / Beth Ginondidoy Leonard (Deg Xinag Athabascan); title: The Alaskan Haida language today : reasons for hope / Jeane Breinig (Haida); title: Yuuyaraq : the way of the human being / Harold Napoleon (Yup'ik); title: Angoon remembers : the religious significance of balance and reciprocity / Nancy Furlow (Tlingit); title: The comity agreement : missionization of Alaska native people / Maria Sháa Tláa Williams (Tlingit); title: Dena'ina heritage and representation in Anchorage : a collaborative project / Stephen J. Langdon and Aaron Leggett (Dena'ina Athabascan); title: How it feels to have your history stolen / Ted Mayac Sr. (King Island Inupiaq); title: Undermining our tribal governments : the stripping of land, resources, and rights from  Alaska native nations / Evon Peter (Neetsaii Gwitch'in and Jewish); title: Terra incognita : communities and resource wars / Subhankar Banerjee; title: Why the natives of Alaska have a land claim / William Iggiagruk Hensley (Inupiaq); title: A brief history of native solidarity / Maria Sháa Tláa Williams (Tlingit); title: A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit / Oscar Angayuqaq Kawagley (Yupiaq); title: The cosmos : indigenous perspectives / Gregory A. Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo); title: Seeing Mathematics with Indian eyes / Claudette Engblom-Bradley (Schaghticoke); title: What is truth? where Western science and traditional knowledge converge / Lilian Na'ia Alessa; title: The Yup'ik and Cup'ik people / Joan Pirciralria Hamilton (Cup'ik); title: Ugiuvangmiut illugiit atuut : teasing cousin songs of the King Island Inupiat / Deanna Paniataaq Kingston (Inupiaq); title: 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); title: Kodiak masks : a personal odyssey / Perry Eaton (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq); title: Artifacts in sound : a century of field recordings of Alaska natives / Craig Coray; title: Digital media as a means of self discovery : identity affirmations in modern technology / Frank Francis-Chythlook (Yup'ik); title: America's wretched / Erica Lord (Inupiaq and Athabascan); title: The Alaska native arts festival / Tim Murphrey; title: Conflict and counter-myth in the film smoke signals / Anna Smith Chiburis (Tlingit); title: Alaska native literature : an updated introduction / James Ruppert; title: Poems / Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Tlingit) and Richard Dauenhauer; title: Poem / G. Williams; title: Living in the Arctic / Denise Cross Wartes; title: Tunnel? . . .what tunnel? / Eleanor Hadden (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian); title: Daisy's best-ever moose stew / Daisy Stri da Zatse Demientieff (Athabascan).