U središtu je razmatranja Englesko-eskimski i eskimsko-engleski rječnik English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies što ga je Središnji ured za tisak objavio 1890. godine u Washingtonu kako bi ...motivirao širi krug ljudi na učenje o Eskimima na Aljasci i tako im olakšao komunikaciju s njima, ali je prvotno sastavljen kao udžbenik za potrebe nastavnika u školama na Aljasci. Premda se navedeni izvor može analizirati s različitih stajališta, omogućujući pritom niz tumačenja, autorica u ovom radu posebno ističe ključne okolnosti iz kojih je isti proizišao i ujedno usmjerava pozornost znanstvenika na eskaleutske jezike.
This book argues that two principal factors are inhibiting Native students from transitioning from school to college and from succeeding in their post-secondary studies. It presents models and ...examples of pathways to success that align with Native American students' aspirations and cultural values. Many attend schools that are poorly resourced where they are often discouraged from aspiring to college. Many are alienated from the educational system by a lack of culturally appropriate and meaningful environment or support systems that reflect Indigenous values of community, sharing, honoring extended family, giving-back to one's community, and respect for creation. The contributors to this book highlight Indigenized college access programs--meaning programs developed by, not just for--the Indigenous community, and are adapted, or developed, for the unique Indigenous populations they serve. Individual chapters cover a K-12 program to develop a Native college-going culture through community engagement; a "crash course" offered by a higher education institution to compensate for the lack of college counseling and academic advising at students' schools; the role of tribal colleges and universities; the recruitment and retention of Native American students in STEM and nursing programs; financial aid; educational leadership programs to prepare Native principals, superintendents, and other school leaders; and, finally, data regarding Native American college students with disabilities. The chapters are interspersed with narratives from current Indigenous graduate students. This is an invaluable resource for student affairs practitioners and higher education administrators wanting to understand and serve their Indigenous students.
In this third volume of Russian Colonization of Alaska ,
Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the final period in the history
of Russian America, from naval officers' coming to power in the
colonies ...(1818) to the sale of Alaska to the United States (1867).
During this time, in addition to the extraction of furs, other
kinds of modern production continued to develop in Alaska,
including shipbuilding, cutting and mining of timber and coal, and
harvesting fish and ice for export. Grinëv's definitive volume
explores how certain economic successes could not prevent the
growth of crisis phenomena. Due to the low competitiveness of
products and the distributive nature of the economy, the Russian
colonial system could not compete with the dynamically developing
Anglo-American capitalist colonization. Russian Colonization of
Alaska is the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin
and evolution of Russian colonization based on research into
political economy, history, and ethnography. Grinëv's study
elaborates the social, political, spiritual, ideological, personal,
and psychological aspects of Russian America, and accounts for the
idiosyncrasies of the natural environment, competition from other
North American empires, Alaska Natives, and individual colonial
diplomats. The colonization of Alaska, rather than being simply a
continuation of the colonization of Siberia by Russians, was
instead part of overarching Russian and global history.
Black Lives in Alaska Hartman, Ian C; Reamer, David; Williams, Calvin E
2022, 2022-10-31
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The history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in Alaska's ...politics and culture. They hunted whales, patrolled the seas, built roads, served in the military, and opened businesses, even as they endured racism and fought injustices. Into the twentieth century, Alaska's Black residents were often part of the larger, nationwide freedom struggle. At the same time, Black settlers found themselves in a far different context than elsewhere in the United States, as Alaska's strategic military location, economic reliance on oil, and unique racial landscape influenced how Black Alaskans made a home for themselves in the northwesternmost corner of the country.Centering the agency and diversity of Black Alaskans, Black Lives in Alaska chronicles how Alaska's Black population, though small, has had an outsized impact on the culture and civic life of the region. Alaska's history of race relations and civil rights reminds the reader that the currents of discrimination and its responses-determination, activism, and perseverance-are American stories that might be explored in the unlikeliest of places.
Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which
its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move
through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in
some ...way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane's work will see the
artic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the
exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and
climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny,
violence, and systemic failures. These contexts catch the voice of
the poems' speakers, and we perceive the currents they create.
In 1899, one of America's wealthiest men gathered together an interdisciplinary team of experts--many who would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to ...the largely unknown territory of Alaska. The Harriman Expedition was, and remains to this day, unprecedented in its conception and execution. This book traces the story of the expedition: where they went, what they did, and what they learned--including finding early evidence of glacial retreat, assessing the nature and future of Alaska's natural resources, and making important scientific discoveries, including the accumulation of an astonishing collection of specimens. A second thread involves the lives and accomplishments of the members of the party: weaving multiple biographical strands into the narrative of the journey and the personal experiences that they shared in their odyssey in Alaskan waters. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the Harriman Alaska Expedition since the 1980s. It features the diaries, letters home, and post-Expedition writings, including unpublished autobiographies, generated by the members of the party.
Shem Pete's Alaska James Kari; James A. Fall; Shem Pete ...
06/2021
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Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from
Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the
Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile
...storytellers and historians in twentieth century Alaska, and his
lifetime travel map of approximately 13,500 square miles is one of
the largest ever documented with this degree of detail anywhere in
the world. The first two editions of Shem Pete's Alaska
contributed much to Dena'ina cultural identity and public
appreciation of the Dena'ina place names network in Upper Cook
Inlet. This new edition adds nearly thirty new place names to its
already extensive source material from Shem Pete and more than
fifty other contributors, along with many revisions and new
annotations. The authors provide synopses of Dena'ina language and
culture and summaries of Dena'ina geographic knowledge, and they
also discuss their methodology for place name research.
Exhaustively refined over more than three decades, Shem Pete's
Alaska will remain the essential reference work on the
landscape of the Dena'ina people of Upper Cook Inlet. As a book of
ethnogeography, Native language materials, and linguistic
scholarship, the extent of its range and influence is unlikely to
be surpassed.
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Indians. ...Place signifies not only a specific geographical location but also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves.
The notion of place consists of three dimensions - space, time, and experience - which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity are formed. As he observes, despite cultural and environmental changes over time, particularly in the post-contact era since the late eighteenth century, Tlingits continue to bind themselves and their culture to places and landscapes in distinctive ways. He offers insight into how Tlingits in particular, and humans in general, conceptualize their relationship to the lands they inhabit, arguing for a study of place that considers all aspects of human interaction with landscape.
In Tlingit, it is difficult even to introduce oneself without referencing places in Lingit Aani (Tlingit Country). Geographic references are embedded in personal names, clan names, house names, and, most obviously, in k-waan names, which define regions of dwelling. To say one is Sheet'ka K-waan defines one as a member of the Tlingit community that inhabits Sheet'ka (Sitka).
Being and Place among the Tlingit makes a substantive contribution to the literature on the Tlingit, the Northwest Coast cultural area, Native American and indigenous studies, and to the growing social scientific and humanistic literature on space, place, and landscape.
The Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at ...the University of Alaska to determine the authority vested in the state legislature, executive, judiciary, and other functions of government. This conveniently sized new edition will make the Alaska State Constitution accessible to all.
In Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov's Era,
1799-1818 , Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the
sociohistorical origins of the former Russian colonies in Alaska,
or "Russian America." The ...formation of the Russian-American Company
and the concentration in the hands of Aleksandr Baranov of all the
power in south and southeast Alaska's Russian settlements marked a
new stage in the history of Russian America. Expanding and
strengthening Russian possessions in the New World as much as
possible, Baranov acted in favor of his country before himself, in
accordance with the principle "people for the empire, and not the
empire for the people." Russian Colonization of Alaska is
the first comprehensive study to analyze the origin and evolution
of Russian colonization based on research into political economy,
history, and ethnography. Grinëv's study elaborates the social,
political, spiritual, ideological, personal, and psychological
aspects of Russian America, accounting for the idiosyncrasies of
the natural environment, competition from other North American
empires, and challenges from Alaska Natives and individual colonial
diplomats. Rather than being simply a continuation of Russians'
colonization of Siberia, the colonization of Alaska was instead
part of overarching Russian and global history.
