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| Author | : Claire Fejes |
| Publisher | : Epicenter Press (WA) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-04 |
| Genre | : Eskimos |
| ISBN | : 9781935347477 |
During five long visits to Alaska's remote northwest coast to sketch and paint, the late Claire Fejes became guest and friend to the Native inhabitants there, learning their ways and customs. A personal narrative in text, drawings, and paintings, People of the Notatak concerns the people of two villages--Noatak, the summer settlement of a nomadic tribe that lives mainly in the wilderness interior, and Point Hope, whose economy centers around the hunting of the great bowhead whale. Claire eloquently captures the life of the Native Inupiat in Northwest Alaska, before outside influences changed their lives. In a few simple strokes, her drawings evoke the heart and life of the Inupiat. Thanks in part to her habit of journal-keeping, Claire was able to record what she had witnessed in her years of travel and painting up the Yukon River into the Arctic Refuge. A native New Yorker, Claire received her art training at the Newark Art Museum and taught art until moving to Alaska. She wrote with rare insight and understanding about the intimate daily lives of mothers and fathers and their children, of husbands and wives and in-laws in the villages in which she lived, an aspect of Eskimo life rarely treated in books. Originally published in 1966, People of the Noatak is an excellent portrayal of the Inupiat people before modern changes, a glimpse into the Inupiat world when traditional values and roots were strong.
| Author | : Edwin S. Hall |
| Publisher | : Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Eskimos |
| ISBN | : |
Collection of 188 folktales collected in spring of 1965. Also includes an analysis of the tales, sketch of the land and people, glossary.
| Author | : United States. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Alaska |
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| Author | : Karen Jettmar |
| Publisher | : Menasha Ridge Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2008-06-28 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0897327977 |
The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.
| Author | : Ann Fienup-Riordan |
| Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Alaska Natives |
| ISBN | : 1602230048 |
Collects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 1978 |
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| Author | : Claire Fejes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781884244001 |
| Author | : Lela Oman |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 1995-07-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0773573984 |
This is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.
| Author | : Anthony Urvina |
| Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2019-11-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1602232946 |
A vivid, “thoughtful” account of the territorial government’s campaign to convert Alaska Natives and suppress their culture (Alaska History). Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples—and, along the way, bring them into “civilized” American citizenship. Establishing missions in a number of areas inhabited by Alaska Natives, the program was an explicit attempt to erase ten thousand years of Native culture and replace it with Christianity and an American frontier ethic. Anthony Urvina, whose mother was an orphan raised at one of the missions established as part of this program, draws on details from her life in order to present the first full history of this missionary effort. Smoothly combining personal and regional history, he tells the story of his mother’s experience amid a fascinating account of Alaska Native life and of the men and women who came to Alaska to spread the word of Christ, confident in their belief and unable to see the power of the ancient traditions they aimed to supplant
| Author | : Caroline Van Hemert |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Spark |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316414433 |
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel
