Download or read book Bethel the First 100 Years written by Mary Lenz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Telling Our Selves written by Chase Hensel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines ethnicity and discourse in Southwestern Alaska, and should be of interest to linguists and anthropologists.

Download or read book Cultural Politics and the Mass Media written by Patrick Daley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1923, it was the territory's first Native-owned-and-operated newspaper and quickly became the voice of Native opposition to commercial fishing interests. Similarly, the authors detail the formation of KYUK-AM in 1971, the first community radio station to program in both the English and Yup'ik languages."

Download or read book Alaska at War 1941 1945 written by Fern Chandonnet and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.

Download or read book History of Alaska Volume II written by Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D. and published by Academica Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant military development to touch Alaska during the interwar years was the advent of air power, an innovation that completely altered Alaska's strategic position. Suddenly the world became smaller as areas once thought safely distant from potential enemies became vulnerable. Nowhere was this more evident than in the Pacific, whose countless islands became potential advanced air bases. As air technology improved, the ability of long-range bombers and, by the 1930s, of carrier aircraft, to penetrate American airspace was a development of far reaching significance. While such warnings were largely limited to a handful of air-power advocates their vocal advocacy constituted nothing less than an “insurrection”, a revolution in military thinking fought against entrenched military conservatism, cultural aversion to change, fears of budget cuts, and War Department lethargy. Indeed it was the air power crusader General Billy Mitchell who aggressively fought to convince the War and Navy Departments to embrace the new doctrine of offensive air power. Mitchell came to understand Alaska's strategic importance early on. Consequently, he saw the Aleutians as a vulnerability: if left unguarded Japan could “creep up” and, by establishing air dominance, take Alaska and Canada’s West Coast. But he also saw Alaska as a strategic base from which American planes could “reduce Tokyo to powder.” Prophetically, in 1923 Mitchell forecast precisely the military threat and strategic arguments that would shape military thinking almost twenty years later: “I am thinking of Alaska. In an air war, if we were unprepared Japan could take it away from us, first by dominating the sky and creeping up the Aleutians." By the mid-to late 1930s military and civilian advocates of air power and more visionary strategists were beginning to make their voices heard in Congress and elsewhere, decrying Alaska’s military vulnerability. Between 1933 and 1944 no one was more adamant than Alaska’s Delegate in Congress, Anthony Joseph “Tony” Dimond, who challenged the nation to defend itself by defending Alaska. To Dimond, it seemed poor strategy to fortify one pacific base, Hawaii, while ignoring another, Alaska. Dimond’s campaign was strengthened by passage of the Wilcox Bill, sponsored by Representative J. Mark Wilcox (D-Florida), officially known as the National Air Defense Act. This truly significant legislation authorized the location and construction of military airfields throughout the United States as a general defense preparedness measure. Alaska was recognized as one of the nation’s six strategic regions, and two bases, one at Anchorage, the other at Fairbanks, were recommended in part, “because Alaska was closer to Japan than it is to the center of [the] continental United States.” Fortuitously for Alaska defense advocates, General Douglas MacArthur stepped down as Chief of Staff of the Army and was replaced by Major General Malin Craig in October 1935. Craig and Brigadier General Stanley D. Embick advocated a substantial reconfiguration of Plan Orange arguing that the Philippines presented an invitation to attack and should be “neutralized” in favor defending the “Alaska-Hawaii-Panama Triangle.” Both the Army and Navy were charged with defending Alaska as far west as Dutch Harbor, and the army pledged to mobilize 6,600 troops in Alaska within a month of attack by Japan. In contemplating the defense of Alaska the Army General Staff formulated five priority objectives: first, increase the Alaska garrison; second, establish a major base for Army operations near Anchorage; third, develop a network of air bases within Alaska; fourth, garrison these bases with combat troops; and fifth, protect the naval installations at Sitka, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. Alaska was about to go to war.

Download or read book Alaska History written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Akulmiut written by Elizabeth F. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral thesis which is an ethnohistoric and ethnographic study of 19th and 20th century land and resource use of the Akulmiut, a Yup'ik-speaking Eskimo society occupying the inland tundra region between the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers of western Alaska.

Download or read book Where It s Still Possible written by Chase Hensel and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focusses on how, in a post-colonial setting, both the colonizers and colonized strategically use similar subsistence practices and related discourse to publicly demonstrate their ethnic identities. The study examines ethnicity as a bi-cultural continuum from Yup'ik Eskimo to non-Native in the community of Bethel, southwest Alaska.

Download or read book Arctic Medical Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Alaskan English written by Russell Tabbert and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a preliminary report of those words which are "Alaskanisms", i.e. unique to or highly characteristic of English as used in Alaska. The listings are arranged by subject, with extensive examples of use in Alaskan writing, with an alphabetical index to words and a guide to Alaskan usage. Includes many words from native languages and Russian, as well as place and regional names.

Download or read book Armed Forces on a Northern Frontier written by Jonathan M. Nielson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-09-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the involvement of the armed forces in Alaska over the past 120 years and its role in the development of the state. Includes maps, drawings, photographs and references.

Download or read book The Health of the Inuit of North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Native and Christian written by James Treat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native and Christian is an anthology of essays by indigenous writers in the United States and Canada on the problem of native Christian identity. This anthology documents the emergence of a significant new collective voice on the North American religious landscape. It brings together in one volume articles originally published in a variety of sources (many of them obscure or out-of-print) including religious magazines, scholarly journals, and native periodicals, along with one previously unpublished manuscript.