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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, publisher
The 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.
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A dictionary of modern consternation
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) McClurg, Brook, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
An 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.
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Uncommon weather: Alaska stories
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Chiappone, Richard, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
An 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.
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Gagaan X'usyee: below the foot of the sun
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Twitchell, X'unei Lance, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Identity 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.
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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, publisher
First-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.
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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, publisher
Presents 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.
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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, publisher
Accessible 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.
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The upper Tanana Dene: people of this land
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Simeone, William E., author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
This 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.
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The Dall sheep dinner guest: Iñupiaq narratives of northwest Alaska
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Anderson, Wanni Wl, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
The 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.
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Trouble will save you: three novellas from interior Alaska
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Crouse, David Nikki, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
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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, publisher
In 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.
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The gwich'in climate report
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Gilbert, Matt, editor and compiler; University of Alaska Press, publisher
A 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.
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Alaska herring history: the story of Alaska's herring fisheries and industry
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Mackovjak, James, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Alaska 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.
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Cabin stories: the best of Dark winter nights: true stories from Alaska
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Prince, Rob, editor; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Cabin 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.
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Water the rocks make: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) McElroy, David, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
The 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.
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Old woman with berries in her lap: poems
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Prescott, Vivian Faith, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Through 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.
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Spirit things
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Messersmith-Glavin, Lara, author; Peet, Roger, illustrator; University of Alaska Press, publisher
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Yungcautnguuq nunam qainga tamarmi. All the land's surface is medicine: edible and medicinal plants of southwest Alaska
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Fienup-Riordan, Ann, author; Rearden, Alice, author; Meade, Marie, author; Jernigan, Kevin, photographer; Cleveland, Jacqueline, photographer; Birzer, Sharon, artist; Tyler, Richard W., artist; University of Alaska Press, publisher
In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives.--Provided by publisher.
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Leavetakings
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Cook, Corinna, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Leavetakings is a collection of personal essays that convey the writer's intimate connections with Alaska. The sections in Leavetakings are structured around water: Inland, Intertidal, Upriver, At Sea. Several essays grapple with loving stolen land, and loving wild landscapes in the face of development, degradation, and resource extraction.--Provided by publisher.
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Cabin 135: a memoir of Alaska
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Eberhart, Katie, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher
Cabin 135 exists as place and idea, abode and quirky companion. As place, the house offered abundant opportunities to explore and contemplate decisions made by previous residents. As an abstraction, the log-built cabin both anchored and propelled my speculative notions of time and place. Eventually, I looked outward, beyond the house toward the microcosms of garden and yard and on toward a wider terrain. Nature meanders through my life as an ongoing theme, whether semi-tamed garden, national park, or wild-seeming forest. My narrative journey samples history, gardening, and nature as well as grappling with a many-faced house. Within the thematic structure of this book, I learn to pay more attention to my surroundings-sometimes with a broad-brush approach such as considering a swath of vegetation, other times, contemplating only a small plot of forest or garden, or a patch of wall inside the house. While searching for narrative larger than myself, everything I experienced, pondered, and tinkered with became part of my story and I puzzled over how we change places in both minuscule and wide-ranging ways.--Provided by publisher.