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Item Restricted Nursery rhymes in Black(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Faison, Latorial, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherLatorial Faison's 2023 Permafrost prize winning book of poetry explores themes of social justice, grief, death, family, the state of the world, and the experience of Black Americans in the modern day.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Brown bears in Alaska's national parks: conservation of a wilderness icon(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Hilderbrand, Grant V., editor; Joly, Kyle, editor; Gustine, David D., editor; Chambers, Nina, editor; University of Alaska Press, publisherExplores the conservation, ecology, and management of brown bears in Alaska's national parks. Written by wildlife biologists, it examines bear biology, climate change impacts, and human-bear interactions in diverse ecosystems. For conservationists and nature enthusiasts.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Our story in many voices: the Alaska State Museum catalog and guide(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2025) Wohlforth, Charles, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherOur Story in Many Voices orients visitors to the museum, explains the objects, and explores the changing history and interpretation of Alaska's story in the many voices of its telling.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The whales, they give themselves: conversations with Harry Brower, Sr.(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Brower, Harry, Sr., author; Brewster, Karen, editor; University of Alaska Press, publisherThe Whales, They Give Themselves is an intimate life history of Harry Brower Sr. (1924-1992), an Inupiaq whaling captain, artisan, and community leader from Barrow, Alaska. In a life that spanned the profound cultural and economic changes of the twentieth century, Brower's knowledge of the natural world made him an essential contributor to the Native and scientific communities of the North. Oral historian Karen Brewster builds upon Harry's stories with photos and cultural and historical background into this innovative and collaborative oral biography.Item Restricted A dictionary of modern consternation(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) McClurg, Brook, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherAn experimental memoir of the author, told in short entries in the style of a reference text, along with introspective and often humorous footnotes throughout. Themes include family relationships and their legacies, loneliness, language, international conflict, and fatherhood.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Uncommon weather: Alaska stories(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Chiappone, Richard, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherAn eclectic mix of character-driven stories that delivers a panoramic picture of Alaska-from the cold city streets of Anchorage to picturesque but emotionally treacherous small Alaska towns.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Gagaan X'usyee: below the foot of the sun(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Twitchell, X'unei Lance, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherIdentity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. Gagaan X'usyee / Below the Foot of the Sun is a unique collection of Indigenous cultural work and Lingít literature in the tradition of Nora Marks Dauenhauer and in the broader contemporary company of Joy Harjo and Sherwin Bitsui. Focused on the history of place and the Lingít and Haida people, who recognize little separation between life and art, these forty-six poems reach into the knowledge of the past, incorporate visions currently received, and draw a path for future generations. The collection is divided into four sections based on how the Lingít talk about gagaan—the sun. Featuring some poems in English, some in Lingít, and some that combine the beauty of the two, Gagaan X'usyee / Below the Foot of the Sun displays an equal dignity in both languages that transcends monolingual constrictions.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Iñupiat of the Sii: historical ethnography and Arctic challenges(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Anderson, Wanni W., author; Anderson, Douglas D., author; University of Alaska Press, publisherFirst-hand account of the authors' lived experiences and archaeological and ethnographic research during eight field seasons in Selawik, Alaska, from 1968 to 1994, including historical and archaeological data representing the early periods of Selawik village.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Stronger together = kammanatut atausigun = iknaqataghaghluta qerngaamta: Bering Strait communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Phillips-Chan, Amy, editor; Smith, RB, editor; Gales, Carol, editor; University of Alaska Press, publisherPresents a museum-community collaboration including oral histories from over 50 community members, artists, and poets from across the Bering Strait region, offering insight into experiences and challenges that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Natchiq grows up: the story of a ringed seal pup and her changing home(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Hauser, Donna D. W., author; Frost, Kathryn J., author; Whiting, Alex, V., author; Goodwin, John, contributor; Harris, Cyrus, contributor; Goodwin, Pearl, contributor; McFarland, Heather, illustrator; University of Alaska Press, publisherAccessible description of the early life and lair of Natchiq, a ringed seal pup near Kotzebue, in northern coastal Alaska. Includes photos and diagrams from seal researchers and science communicators, as well as sidebars focused on Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The upper Tanana Dene: people of this land(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Simeone, William E., author; University of Alaska Press, publisherThis volume conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders. Oral accounts reveal a unique perspective and offer commentary on continuity and change over the past hundred years. These narratives, along with photographs and illustrations, show the history of the region alongside a portrait of the people themselves.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The Dall sheep dinner guest: Iñupiaq narratives of northwest Alaska(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Anderson, Wanni Wl, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherThe rich storytelling tradition of the Inupiaq Eskimos of Alaska is showcased in this collection of over eighty stories. Meticulously compiled from six villages in Northwest Alaska between 1966 and 1987, the stories are presented as part of a living tradition, complete with biographies, photos, and introductory remarks by Native storytellers. Each story provides insight into Inupiaq worldview, human-animal relationships, and the organization of family life." "The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest includes a new version of the Qayaq cycle, one of the best-known legends from the region, as well as stories such as "The Fast Runner." A major contribution to the Native literature of Alaska, this collection includes two introductory essays by Wanni W. Anderson that provide historical background and a foundation for understanding gender, age, and regional differences and the narrative context of storytelling.--Book jacket.Item Restricted Trouble will save you: three novellas from interior Alaska(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Crouse, David Nikki, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherItem Restricted Akulmiut neqait: fish and food of the Akulmiut(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Fienup-Riordan, Ann, author; Meade, Marie, author; Rearden, Alice, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherIn fall 2014, Calista Education and Culture, Inc. (CEC, formerly Calista Elders Council) began a four-year study funded by the Office of Subsistence Management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The study focused on whitefish and other non-salmon freshwater fish harvested by residents of the Akulmiut villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak, as well as those living along the Kuskokwim River just below Bethel in the villages of Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Oscarville. Harvest studies have been carried out in some of these communities (Ikuta, Brown, and Koester, ed. 2014) as well as two major ethnographic studies--one in Napaskiak (Oswalt 1963) and one in Nunapitchuk (Andrews 1989). Our intended focus was not on harvest amounts but rather traditional knowledge surrounding the harvest and use of the six species of whitefish, as well as pike, burbot, and blackfish, on which people from this area relied so heavily in the past and continue to harvest to this day. In fact, all three contemporary Akulmiut villages, as well as settlements in the past, were established at sites where fish fences were built across the river each fall to intercept whitefish as they migrated out of the lakes and sloughs toward the mainstem of the Kuskokwim River. If there is one food that defines people from this area, it is whitefish.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted The gwich'in climate report(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Gilbert, Matt, editor and compiler; University of Alaska Press, publisherA regional climate impact and adaptation report, The Gwich'in Climate Report is a compilation of interviews between Matt Gilbert and northern Alaska Gwich'in Athabascan community members, elders, hunters, and trappers. It explores Gwich'in insight and wisdom about ecology, climate, and the effects of climate change on their landscapes and culture.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Alaska herring history: the story of Alaska's herring fisheries and industry(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Mackovjak, James, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherAlaska Herring History is a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and comprehensive chronicle of Alaska's herring fisheries. James Mackovjak describes the evolution of these fisheries from the late nineteenth century to the present, including harvest, processing, markets, and sustained-yield management considerations.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Cabin stories: the best of Dark winter nights: true stories from Alaska(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Prince, Rob, editor; University of Alaska Press, publisherCabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is a collection of stories selected by the executive producers of Dark Winter Nights. These stories depict true adventures, impossible situations and the stranger side of life in Alaska as told by the everyday Alaskans who experienced them.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Water the rocks make: poems(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) McElroy, David, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherThe poems of Water the Rocks Make commit into words the turbulence of emotion and thought stirred up by life's events: family trauma, psychiatric instability, the legal system, the death of a loved one, identity, cultural displacement, work, loss, creativity, and through everything, love.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Old woman with berries in her lap: poems(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Prescott, Vivian Faith, author; University of Alaska Press, publisherThrough a single descendant's voice that speaks to the Sámi diaspora, this collection of poems is a journey through colonialism, transgenerational trauma, and identity. Many have heard of the Sámi reindeer herders brought to Alaska by Sheldon Jackson in the 1800s, but not much is known about the Sámi diaspora experiences.--Provided by publisher.Item Restricted Spirit things(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Messersmith-Glavin, Lara, author; Peet, Roger, illustrator; University of Alaska Press, publisher