Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Alaska and Its People: An Introduction 1
7. I Portraits of Nations: Telling Our Own Story
8. Lazeni ’linn Nataełde Ghadghaande: When Russians Were Killed at “Roasted Salmon Place” (Batzulnetas) 15
9. The Fur Rush: A Chronicle of Colonial Life 28
10. Redefining Our Planning Traditions: Caribou Fences, Community, and the Neetsaii Experience 42
11. Memories of My Trap Line 49
12. Cultural Identity through Yupiaq Narrative 56
13. Dena’ina Ełnena: Dena’ina Country: The Dena’ina in Anchorage, Alaska 67
14. Qaneryaramta Egmiucia: Continuing Our Language 85
15. Deg Xinag Oral Traditions: Reconnecting Indigenous Language and Education through Traditional Narratives 91
16. The Alaskan Haida Language Today: Reasons for Hope 106
17. II Empire: Processing Colonization
18. Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being 121
19. Angoon Remembers: The Religious Significance of Balance and Reciprocity 144
20. The Comity Agreement: Missionization of Alaska Native People 151
21. Dena’ina Heritage and Representation in Anchorage: A Collaborative Project 163
22. How It Feels to Have Your History Stolen 176
23. Undermining Our Tribal Governments: The Stripping of Land, Resources, and Rights from Alaska Native Nations 178
24. Terra Incognita: Communities and Resource Wars 184
25. Why the Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim 192
26. A Brief History of Native Solidarity 202
27. III Worldviews: Alaska Native and Indigenous Epistemologies
28. A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit 221
29. The Cosmos: Indigenous Perspectives 230
30. Seeing Mathematics with Indian Eyes 237
31. What Is Truth? Where Western Science and Traditional Knowledge Converge 246
32. The Yup’ik and Cup’ik People 252
33. IV Native Arts: A Weaving of Melody and Color
34. Ugiuvangmiut Illugiit Atuut: Teasing Cousins Songs of the King Island Iñupiat 261
35. fly by night mythology: An Indigenous Guide to White Man, or How to Stay Sane When the World Makes No Sense 272
36. Kodiak Masks: A Personal Odyssey 283
37. Artifacts in Sound: A Century of Field Recordings of Alaska Natives 294
38. Digital Media as a Means of Self Discovery: Identity Affirmations in Modern Technology 306
39. America’s Wretched 309
40. The Alaska Native Arts Festival 318
41. Conflict and Counter-Myth in the Film Smoke Signals 321
42. Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction 333
43. V Ravenstales
44. Poems 339
45. Poem 351
46. Living in the Arctic 352
47. Tunnel? . . . What Tunnel? 356
48. Daisy’s Best-Ever Moose Stew 360
49. Suggestions for Further Reading 363
50. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 381
51. Index 385