Native Cultures in Alaska

Alaska Geographic is a nonprofit publisher, educator, and supporter of Alaska's parks, forests, and refuges. A portion of every purchase at Alaska Geographic bookstores directly supports educational and interpretive programs at Alaska's public lands. Tricia Brown is a full-time writer and editor. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Since 1978, she has traveled nearly every inch of Alaska's road system and flown into its remotest places while writing and editing for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska magazine. She has written books for adults and children on Alaska life, travel and history.

• Introduction       Uniquely AlaskanMapChapter 1        Alaska’s Native Cultures and HomelandsChapter 2        Looking Forward, Looking BackChapter 3        Unanga{ (Aleut)Riding Ungiikan Home, by Barbara Švarný CarlsonChapter 4        Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)Who Are We, Anyway? by Gordon PullarChapter 5        Yup’ikThe Four Seasons of Manokotak, by Anecia LomackYup’ik Dance Masks: Stories of CultureChapter 6        Siberian YupikChapter 7        IñupiatA Time for Whaling, by Sheila FranksonChapter 8        AthabascanPeople of the Yukon Flats, by Velma WallisChapter 9        EyakChapter 10      TlingitCarving Traditions, by Nathan JacksonChapter 11      TsimshianChapter 12      HaidaDelores Churchill: The Weaver’s DaughterBibliographyIndex

""It is a real treat to encounter this book. . . It gives the origin of the people as far as known, tells something of their traditional crafts and arts, illustrates with photographs of those and the people, and best of all, addresses their home territories and proper names. . . This little book gives a clear picture of the Native Alaskans working on a nice balance between the modern world and their traditional one, ‘Looking forward and looking back’. . . Buy one to keep and one for a friend Outside.""—Dee Longenbaugh, ObservatoryBooks.com, Sitka Sentinel