Resources About Alaska Native Cultures

 

Web Sites

 

Partnow, Patricia H. (researcher, lesson designer, author), www.akhistory.org. A project of Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC), undertaken in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC) and the Anchorage School District (ASD). Web design by CTG.

Please enter the LINKS page of www.akhhistory.org for other web sites that relate to Alaska Native Cultures

 

Print Resources

 

General/Alaska History and Geography

 

Alaska Geographic (many titles)

Antonson , Joan M., and William S. Hannable, Alaska's Heritage

Arnold, Robert, Alaska Native Land Claims

Case, David, Alaska Natives and American Laws

Chandonnet, Fern (ed.), Alaska at War

Corral, Ray, Alaska Native Ways: What the Elders Have Taught Us

Fitzhugh, William and Aron Crowell, Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska

Haycox, Stephen W. and Mary Childers Mangusso (eds.), An Alaskan Anthology: Interpreting the Past

Langdon, Steve J., The Native People of Alaska

McClanahan, Alexandra J., Growing Up Native in Alaska

McClanahan, Alexandra J., A Reference in Time: Alaska Native History Day by Day

Morgan, Lael, And the Land Provides

Pierce, Richard, Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary

 

Yup'ik, Inupiaq, and St. Lawrence Island Yupik (also called Siberian Yupik)

 

Apassingok, Anders et al. (eds.), Lore of St. Lawrence Island: Echoes of our Eskimo Elders (Sivuqam Nangaghnegha: Siivanllemta Ungipaqellghat)

Barker, James, Always Getting Ready

Burch, Ernest S., The Inupiaq Nations of Northwest Alaska

Campbell, John Martin, North Alaska Chronicle: Notes from the End of Time

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Eskimo Essays

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks

Gubser, Nicholas J., The Nunamiut Eskimos: Hunters of Caribou

Hall, Edwin S., Jr., The Eskimo Storyteller: Folktales from Noatak, Alaska

Mendenhall, Hannah, Ruthie Sampson, and Edward Tennant (eds.), Lore of the Inupiat, Volumes I, II, and II

Nelson, Edward, The Eskimo About Bering Strait

Nelson, Richard, Hunters of the Northern Ice

Oswalt, Wendell, Alaskan Eskimos

Ray, Dorothy Jean, Artists of the Tundra and the Sea

Ray, Dorothy Jean, The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898

Senungetuk, Joseph, Give or Take a Century

Spencer, Robert F., The North Alaskan Eskimo

Tiulana, Paul, A Place for Winter

 

Sugpiaq (also called Alutiiq and Pacific Eskimo)

 

Crowell, Aron L, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar (eds.), Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (see also the teacher's guide, video, and CD)

Johnson, John F. C. (compiler), Chugach Legends

Morseth, Michelle, Puyulek Pu'irtuq

Mulcahey, Joanne B., Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island: The Life of an Alutiiq Healer

Partnow, Patricia, Making History: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Life on the Alaska Peninsula

 

Unangan (also called Aleut)

 

Bergsland, Knut and Moses Dirks, Unangam Ungiikangin Kayux Tunusangin /Unangam Unikangis Ama Tunuzangis: Aleut Tales and Narratives

Black, Lydia (ed.), The History and Ethnohistory of the Aleutians East Borough

Black, Lydia, Glory Remembered: Wooden Headgear of Alaska Sea Hunters

Elliott, H.W., The Seal-Islands of Alaska

Garfield, Brian The Thousand Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians

Jones, Dorothy Knee, A Century of Servitude: Pribilof Aleuts Under U.S. Rule

Lantis, Margaret (ed.), Ethnohistory in Southwest Alaska

Laughlin, William S., Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge

Liapunova, Roza G., Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts

Oliver, Ethel Ross, Journal of an Aleutian Year

Unalaska City School District, Unugulux Tunusangin: Oldtime Stories

Unalaska City School District, People of the Aleutian Islands

Unalaska City Schools, The Aleutian Invasion: World War Two in the Aleutian Islands

Veniaminov, Ivan, Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District

 

Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian

 

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Richard, Haa Shuka: Our Ancestors

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Richard, Haa Kusteeyi: Our Culture/Tlingit Life Stories

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Richard, Haa Tuwunaagu Yis: For Healing Our Spirit/Tlingit Oratory

DeLaguna, Frederica, Under Mount St. Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit

Emmons, George Thornton (ed. by Frederica DeLaguna), The Tlingit Indians

Goldschmidt, Walter R. and Theodore H. Haas, Haa Aani: Our Land. Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use

Krause, Aurel, The Tlingit Indians

Miller, Jay, Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages

Nyman, Elizabeth and Jeff Leer: Gagiwdul.at: Brought Fort to Reconfirm The Legacy of a Taku River Tlingit Clan

Oberg, Kalervo, Social Economy of the Tlingit Indians

Paul, Frances Lackey, Kahtahah

Suttles, Wayne (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 7, Northwest Coast

 

Athabascan and Eyak

 

Alaska Geographic (ed.), Interior Alaska: A Journey Through Time

Attla, Catherine, Bakk'aatugh Ts'uhuniy: Stories We Live By (Traditional Koyukon Stories) (see also accompanying teacher's guide)

Attla, Catherine, Sitsiy Yugh Noholnik Ts'in': As My Grandfather Told it (Traditional Stories from the Koyukuk) (see also accompanying teacher's guide)

Duncan, Kate C,, A Special Gift: The Kutchin Beadwork Tradition

Helm, June (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 6: Subarctic

Kalifornsky, Peter, A Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu

Krauss, Michael E. (ed.), In Honor of Eyak: The Art of Anna Nelson Harry

Mackenzie, Clara Childs, Wolf Smeller (Zhoh Gwatsan): A Biography of John Fredson, Native Alaskan

Mishler, Craig (ed.), Neerihiinjik: We Traveled from Place to Place: The Gwich'in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank

Nelson, Richard Athabascans: People of the Boreal Forest

Nelson, Richard, Hunters of the Northern Forest

Nelson, Richard, Make Prayers to the Raven

Peter, Katherine, Nets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country

VanStone, James, Athapaskan Adaptations

Wallis, Velma, Two Old Women

 

Media

 

Look for the following videotapes and video series in your local and school libraries:

Aleut Evacuation

Aleut History

Alutiiq Pride: A Story of Subsistence

Box of Daylight

Kusah Hakwaan

The Land is Ours

Looking Both Ways

Make Prayers to the Raven

Seeing Daylight: Alaska's Tlingit and Their Culture

Tlingit Ani