The teacher and the superintendent Boulter, George E., II; Boulter, George E; Green, Alice
The teacher and the superintendent,
2015, 2015, 2015-12-03
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From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and ...schools along the Yukon River were George E. Boulter and Alice Green, his future wife. Boulter, a Londoner originally drawn to the Klondike, had begun teaching in 1905 and by 1910 had been promoted to superintendent of schools for the Upper Yukon District. In 1907, Green left a comfortable family life in New Orleans to answer the “call to serve” in the Episcopal mission boarding schools for Native children at Anvik and Nenana, where she occupied the position of government teacher. As school superintendent, Boulter wrote frequently to his superiors in Seattle and Washington, DC, to discuss numerous administrative matters and to report on problems and conditions overall. From 1906 to 1918, Green kept a personal journal—hitherto in private possession—in which she reflected on her professional duties and her domestic life in Alaska. Collected in The Teacher and the Superintendent are Boulter’s letters and Green’s diary. Together, their vivid, first- hand impressions bespeak the earnest but paternalistic beliefs of those who lived and worked in immensely isolated regions, seeking to bring Christianity and “civilized” values to the Native children in their care. Beyond shedding private light on the missionary spirit, however, Boulter and Green have also left us an invaluable account of the daily conflicts that occurred between church and government and of the many injustices suffered by the Native population in the face of the misguided efforts of both institutions.
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most
ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth
century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to
define and ...develop the enormous region comprising northeastern
Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska. The forces of nature and the
follies of human error conspired to make the area incredibly
difficult to map. Exploring and Mapping Alaska focuses on
this foundational period in Arctic cartography. Russia spurred a
golden era of cartographic exploration, while shrouding their
efforts in a veil of secrecy. They drew both on old systems
developed by early fur traders and new methodologies created in
Europe. With Great Britain, France, and Spain following close
behind, their expeditions led to an astounding increase in the
world's knowledge of North America. Through engrossing descriptions
of the explorations and expert navigators, aided by informative
illustrations, readers can clearly trace the evolution of the maps
of the era, watching as a once-mysterious region came into sharper
focus. The result of years of cross-continental research,
Exploring and Mapping Alaska is a fascinating study of the
trials and triumphs of one of the last great eras of historic
mapmaking.
After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose
and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again
in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land ...and
breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being started in Alaska
within a few years. The Great Depression, and later the development
of warm, durable, and lightweight synthetic materials during World
War II, brought further decline and eventual failure to the
industry as the postwar economy of Alaska turned to defense and
later to oil. The Fur Farms of Alaska brings this history
to life by capturing the remarkable stories of the men and women
who made fur their livelihood. "For more than 200 years 'soft gold'
brought many people to Alaska. Fur farming was Alaska's
third-largest industry in the 1920s, and Sarah Isto writes of the
many efforts, successes, and ultimately of the fur farming
industry's failure. This well-researched history contextualizes
current fox elimination projects on Alaska islands and explains the
abandoned pens one stumbles across. This is a story that has long
needed to be written."-Joan M. Antonson, Alaska State Historian
Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless
(the subject of Into the Wild ) and John Muir to Alaska
will find nuanced answers in Frontier Romance , Judith
Kleinfeld's thoughtful ...study of the iconic American love of the
frontier and its cultural influence. Kleinfeld considers the
subject through three catagories: rebellion, redemption, and
rebirth; escape and healing; and utopian community. Within these
categories she explores the power of narrative to shape lives
through concrete, compelling examples-both heart-warming and
horrifying. Ultimately, Kleinfeld argues that the frontier
narrative enables Americans-born or immigrant-to live deliberately,
to gather courage, and to take risks, face danger, and seize
freedom rather than fear it.
Picture Man Thomas, Margaret
04/2015, Letnik:
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In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small
Tlingit village in southeast Alaska. At a time when Asian
immigrants were forbidden to own property and faced intense racial
pressure, ...the Japanese-born Kayamori put down roots and became part
of the Yakutat community. For three decades he photographed daily
life in the village, turning his lens on locals and migrants alike,
and gaining the nickname "Picture Man." But as World War II drew
near, his passion for photography turned dangerous, as government
officials called out Kayamori as a potential spy. Despondent,
Kayamori committed suicide, leaving behind an enigmatic
photographic legacy. In Picture Man , Margaret Thomas views
Kayamori's life through multiple lenses. Using Kayamori's original
photos, she explores the economic and political realities that sent
Kayamori and thousands like him out of Japan toward opportunity and
adventure in the United States, especially the Pacific Northwest.
She reveals the tensions around Asian immigrants on the West Coast
and the racism that sent many young men north to work in the
canneries of Alaska. And she illuminates the intersecting-and at
times conflicting-lives of villagers and migrants in a time of
enormous change. Part history, part biography, part photographic
showcase, Picture Man offers a fascinating new view of
Alaska history.
Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career
with the U.S. Department of the Interior that included positions
such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown
...bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his passionate
connection to the natural world, as he describes experiences such
as being in the midst of a herd of 40,000 caribou. Bear
Wrangler is an absorbing tale of one man's experience as an
authentic pioneer in the last vestiges of American wilderness.
For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left
to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for
Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family
...settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the height of
salmon season. With this connection to thousands of years of
fishing and gathering at its core, Gaining Daylight
explores what it means to balance lives on two islands, living
within both an ancient way of life and the modern world. Her
personal essays integrate natural and island history with her
experiences of fishing and family life, as well as the challenges
of living at the northern edge of the Pacific. Loewen's writing is
richly descriptive; readers can almost feel heat from wood stoves,
smell smoking salmon, and spot the ways the ocean blues change with
the season. With honesty and humor, Loewen easily draws readers
into her world, sharing the rewards of subsistence living and the
peace brought by miles of crisp solitude.
Attu Boy Golodoff, Nick; Mason, Rachel; Maly, Brenda
05/2015
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In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote
Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the
...Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corralling all
survivors into a freighter bound for Japan. One of those survivors,
Nick Golodoff, became a prisoner of war at just six years old. He
was among the dozens of Unangan Attu residents swept away to
Hokkaido, and one of only twenty-five to survive. Attu Boy
tells Golodoff's story of these harrowing years as he found both
friendship and cruelty at the hands of the Japanese. It offers a
rare look at the lives of civilian prisoners and their captors in
WWII-era Japan. It also tells of Golodoff's bittersweet return to a
homeland torn apart by occupation and forced internments.
Interwoven with other voices from Attu, this richly illustrated
memoir is a testament to the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of
lives disrupted by war.
Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in PoetrySelected by Arthur SzeHyperborealoriginates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns ...that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban centers. Through language,Hyperborealgrants forum to issues of displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and loss of family that King Island people-and all Inuit-are contending with.
Among Wolves Haber, Gordon; Holleman, Marybeth
10/2013
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Alaska's wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when
his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009.
Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former
hockey ...player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali's wolves.
He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves
and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber's
writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of
cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups,
and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With
the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his
studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His
fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife
science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber's field
notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come
together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the
wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to
fascinate and polarize people, and Haber's work continues to
resonate.
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