Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska s first peoples are often ignored, while the stories of Russian fur hunters and American gold miners, of salmon canneries and oil pipelines, are praised. Filled with essays, poems, songs, stories, maps, and visual art, this volume foregrounds the perspectives of Alaska Native people, from a Tlingit photographer to Athabascan and Yup ik linguists, and from an Alutiiq mask carver to a prominent Native politician and member of Alaska s House of Representatives. The...
Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska s first peoples are often i...
