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Book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta  Alaska  By Kaj Birket Smith and Frederica de Laguna

Download or read book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta Alaska By Kaj Birket Smith and Frederica de Laguna written by Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta  Alaska  By Kaj Birket Smith and Frederica de Laguna

Download or read book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta Alaska By Kaj Birket Smith and Frederica de Laguna written by Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta  Alaska

Download or read book The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta Alaska written by Kaj Birket-Smith and published by København : Levin & Munksgaard. This book was released on 1938 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results of an archeological and ethnographical expedition to Prince William Sound in the summer of 1933.

Book The Tlingit Indians

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Thornton Emmons
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780295970080
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book The Tlingit Indians written by George Thornton Emmons and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emmons died in 1945, he left behind a mass of materials for a 65 line drawings, and 127 bandw photos. book on the Tlingit which he had begun as early as the 1880s, when he was stationed in Alaska with the US Navy. Ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna has spent 30 years organizing Emmons ethnographic data, notes, drawings, sketches, and manuscripts, and has made significant additions from other sources and her own information, putting the entirety in chronological order, to present this invaluable ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Includes a biography of Emmons by Jean Low, as well as an extensive bibliography, 37 tables, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Eyak Indian of the copper river delta  Alaska

Download or read book The Eyak Indian of the copper river delta Alaska written by Birket-Smith K. and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Voices

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  • Author : James Ruppert
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802084675
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Our Voices written by James Ruppert and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is an important, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North, especially in the Athabaskan communities of interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Here for the first time is an anthology of the best stories that Athabaskan speakers tell about themselves, their communities, and the cold, beautiful world of the Far North. Showcased are twenty accomplished Native storytellers, recognized as masters by their people, who come from the Deg Hit'an, Koyukon, Gwich'in, Northern and Southern Tutchone, Kaska, Tagish, Upper and Lower Tanana, Tanacross, Upper Kuskokwim, Dena'ina, Ahtna, and Eyak communities. Men and women, young and old, recount popular tales of legendary times, such as how Raven Shaped the World. They also share meaningful, sometimes intimate, stories about their own lives, their families, or the history of their people. These evocative, wonderfully crafted stories are a literary treasure trove; entertaining, enchanting, and offering an unforgettable glimpse of the Native peoples who live under the bright lights of the Far North.

Book The Story of a Tlingit Community

Download or read book The Story of a Tlingit Community written by Frederica De Laguna and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angoon area, southeast Alaska.

Book Early Inuit Studies

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  • Author : Igor Krupnik
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2016-02-16
  • ISBN : 1935623710
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Early Inuit Studies written by Igor Krupnik and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the Inuit (Eskimo) people from the 1850s to the 1980s via profiles of scientists who made major contributions to the field and via intellectual transitions (themes) that furthered such developments. It presents an engaging story of advancement in social research, including anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and linguistics, in the polar regions. Essays written by American, Canadian, Danish, French, and Russian contributors provide for particular trajectories of research and academic tradition in the Arctic for over 130 years. Most of the essays originated as papers presented at the 18th Inuit Studies Conference hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in October 2012. Yet the book is an organized and integrated narrative; its binding theme is the diffusion of knowledge across disciplinary and national boundaries. A critical element to the story is the changing status of the Inuit people within each of the Arctic nations and the developments in national ideologies of governance, identity, and treatment of indigenous populations. This multifaceted work will resonate with a broad audience of social scientists, students of science history, humanities, and minority studies, and readers of all stripes interested in the Arctic and its peoples.

Book A Story as Sharp as a Knife

Download or read book A Story as Sharp as a Knife written by Robert Bringhurst and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in these islands. The masterworks of classical Haida sculpture, now enshrined in many of the world's great museums, range from exquisite tiny amulets to magnificent huge housepoles. Classical Haida literature is every bit as various and fine. It extends from tiny jewels crafted by master songmakers to elaborate mythic cycles lasting many hours. The linguist and ethnographer John Swanton took dictation from the last great Haida-speaking storytellers, poets and historians from the fall of 1900 through the summer of 1901. His Haida hosts and colleagues had been raised in a wholly oral world where the mythic and the personal interpenetrate completely. They joined forces with their visitor, consciously creating a great treasury of Haida oral literature in written form. Poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst has worked for many years with these century-old manuscripts, which have waited until now for the broad recognition they deserve.

Book Catalogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arctic Institute of North America. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Arctic Institute of North America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indians at Work

Download or read book Indians at Work written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trail of the Hare

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  • Author : Joel S. Savishinsky
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9782881246470
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Trail of the Hare written by Joel S. Savishinsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic study of the Kawchodinne or Hare Indians from the village of Colville Lake, NWT.

Book Contested Ground

Download or read book Contested Ground written by Geoffrey T. Bleakley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Cultures in Alaska

Download or read book Native Cultures in Alaska written by Alaska Geographic Association and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the minds of most Americans, Native culture in Alaska amounts to Eskimos and igloos....The latest publication of the Alaska Geographic Society offers an accessible and attractive antidote to such misconceptions. Native Cultures in Alaska blends beautiful photographs with informative text to create a striking portrait of the state's diverse and dynamic indigenous population.

Book Words of Wonder

Download or read book Words of Wonder written by Nicholas Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangerment In the new, thoroughly revised second edition of Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us, Second Edition (formerly called Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us), renowned scholar Nicholas Evans delivers an accessible and incisive text covering the impact of mass language endangerment. The distinguished author explores issues surrounding the preservation of indigenous languages, including the best and most effective ways to respond to the challenge of recording and documenting fragile oral traditions while they’re still with us. This latest edition offers an entirely new chapter on new developments in language revitalisation, including the impact of technology on language archiving, the use of social media, and autodocumentation by speakers. It also includes a number of new sections on how recent developments in language documentation give us a fuller picture of human linguistic diversity. Seeking to answer the question of why widespread linguistic diversity exists in the first place, the book weaves in portraits of individual “last speakers” and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries. It provides access to a companion website with sound files and embedded video clips of various languages mentioned in the text. It also offers: A thorough introduction to the astonishing diversity of the world’s languages Comprehensive exploration of how the study of living languages can help us understand deep human history, including the decipherment of unknown texts in ancient languages Discussions of the intertwining of language, culture and thought, including both fieldwork and experimental studies An introduction to the dazzling beauty and variety of oral literature across a range of endangered languages In-depth examinations of the transformative effect of new technology on language documentation and revitalisation Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students studying language endangerment and preservation and for any reader who wants to discover what the full diversity of the world’s languages has to teach us, Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us, Second Edition, will earn a place in the libraries of linguistics, anthropology, and sociology scholars with a professional or personal interest in endangered languages and in the full wealth of the world’s languages.