Download or read book The Alaska Labors of Sheldon Jackson 1877 1890 written by Ted C. Hinckley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Alaska Anthology written by Stephen W. Haycox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more recent threat of nuclear testing by the Atomic Energy Commission and the influence of oil money on inexperienced politicians. Readers may be familiar with an earlier anthology, Interpreting Alaska’s History, from which the present volume evolved to accommodate an explosion of research in the past decade. While a number of the original pieces were found to be irreplaceable, more than half of the essays are new. The result is a fresh perspective on the subject and an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and scholars.
Download or read book Collecting Native America 1870 1960 written by Shepard Krech III and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs. In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning with the purchase of a lice-ridden shirt, built a collection that—still unsurpassed in richness, diversity, and size—today forms the core of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, collected and displayed artifacts as a means of converting Native peoples to Christianity. Clara Endicott Sears used sometimes invented displays and ceremonies at her Indian Museum near Boston to emphasize Native American spirituality. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes towards Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described.
Download or read book In a Far Country written by John Taliaferro and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the whalers, driving four hundred reindeer more than seven hundred untracked miles. At the heart of the rescue expedition lies another, in some ways more compelling, journey. In a Far Country is the personal odyssey of Tom and his wife Ellen Lopp -- their commitment to the natives and the rugged but happy life they built for themselves amid a treeless tundra at the top of the world. The Lopps pulled through on grit and wits, on humility and humor, on trust and love, and by the grace of God. Their accomplishment would surely have received broader acclaim had it not been eclipsed by two simultaneous events: the Spanish- American War and the Alaska gold rush. The United States and its territories were transformed abruptly and irrevocably by these fits of expansionist fever, and despite the thoughtful, determined guidance of the Lopps, the natives of the North were soon overwhelmed by a force mightier than the fiercest Arctic winter: the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Most Striking of Objects written by Andrew Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peyotism in Idaho - Omer C. Stewart Folsom Points in Oregon: A Reply to Plew and Meatte - Rick Minor Bibliography of Missionary Activities and Religious Change in Northwest Coast Societies - John Barker Cultural Resource Management in Alaska: A Current Perspective - Dennis Griffin Oregon Coast Archaeology: A Critical History and a Model - R. Lee Lyman and Richard E. Ross Excavation of a Brickwork Feature at a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Shrimp Camp on San Francisco Bay - Peter D. Schulz
Download or read book The History of the Alaska Moravian Church 1885 1985 written by James Henkelman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, documented and illustrated history written for the occasion of the Moravian Centennial in Alaska.
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions written by Gerald H. Anderson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Interpreting Alaska s History written by Mary Childers Mangusso and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles previously published in professional journals or books explore Alaska's history, native and non-native, Russian and American, from diverse perspectives--social, economic, cultural and political. They employ a variety of methodologies, including ethno history and oral history as well as traditional documentary analysis. No index.
Download or read book Lives in Education written by Joan K. Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the history of Western education through the biographies of some 70 individuals, past and present, who exemplify the education of their times or have made important contributions to the development of educational theory or practice. In so doing, it links major issues and ideas in education to key historical personalities. Each chapter includes substantive background information, a summary, and chapter notes.
Download or read book Alaskan John G Brady Missionary Businessman Judge and Governor 1878 1918 written by Ted C. Hinckley and published by [Columbus, Ohio] : Published for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Alaska's fifth territorial Governor.
Download or read book Sheldon Jackson written by Robert Laird Stewart and published by New York, Chicago [etc.] F. H. Revell Company [c1908]. This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on education in Alaska and the introduction of Siberian reindeer to Alaska.
Download or read book The Great Father in Alaska written by Robert E. Price and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political history of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, whose reliance upon salmon to maintain their way of life was not protected by the United States government. Includes photographs, map and references.
Download or read book The Canoe Rocks written by Ted C. Hinckley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canoe Rocks is a historical analysis of the EuroAmerican impact on Alaska's Tlingit people. With its extensive documentation, the book will assist diverse scholars. After introducing Russia's early efforts to establish a profitable settlement in Alaska's southeastern archipelago, the author reviews the concurrent British commercial encroachments. However, it is America's "Boston Men," and their successors, who really cause the Tlingit canoe to rock. Throughout the nineteenth century, Native institutions such as their family life, blood atonement, and trade practices, slavery, witchcraft, and even their celebrated potlatch were modified, some radically. Predictably, Alaska's environment also incurred accelerating alteration. Responses by Tlingit women and men to miners, missionaries, merchant-town builders, and other traditional frontier figures did not mirror their Native counterparts across the United States. These pages certainly confirm the Northwest Coast people's singular artistic and entrepreneurial energies. The Canoe Rocks offers readers an informative and culturally balanced history, a fast-paced narrative sure to excite enthusiasts of Native American history and the history of Western America.
Download or read book Sheldon Jackson Alaska s Apostle and Pioneer written by John Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It is a Hard Country Though written by George F. Williss and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2, no. 1 includes Papers presented at the first twenty annual meetings of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, 1948-1967.
