Looking both ways : heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people

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Looking both ways : heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people / Aron L. Crowell, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar, editors.

Crowell, Aron, 1952- (Added Author). Steffian, Amy F. (Added Author). Pullar, Gordon L. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1889963305
ISBN: 9781889963303
Physical Description: xii, 265 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "A project of The Arctic Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository."
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Looking both ways / Aron L. Crowell -- Alutiiq culture: views from archaeology, anthropology, and history / Aron L. Crowell and Sonja Lührmann. The Alutiiq language / Jeff Leer. Chugach teachers / Frederica de Laguna. Alutiiq midwives / Joanne B. Mulcahy. War between the Chugach and the Koniag: how the men of Qilangalik avenged their wives / narrated by Makari Chimovitski in 1933. Forgotten literacy / Lydia Black. Alutiiq identity / Patricia H. Partnow -- Contemporary Alutiiq identity / Gordon L. Pullar -- Tides and ties of our culture / Roy Madsen. Can there be such a thing as a native anthropologist? / Sven Haakanson, Jr. The spirits are still there: memories of Katmai country / Mary Jane Nielsen. Kanatak Tribal Council / Marlane Shanigan. Bridging traditions and science / Ruth Alice Olsen Dawson. Repatriation and the Chugach Alaska people / John F.C. Johnson. Kinship / McKibben Jackinsky -- Cúmilalhet-"Our ancestors" / Amy F. Steffian. Ocean Bay-the luck of science / Donald W. Clark. Back to Uyak / Amy F. Steffian. Alutiit on the Alaska Peninsula / Don Dumond. Historical archaeology at the Afognak Artel / Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer. Community archaeology, Old Harbor style / Ben Fitzhugh. The Karluk Archaeological Project and the changing cultural landscape of Kodiak Island / Richard A. Knecht -- Súgucihpet-"Our way of living" / Aron L. Crowell and April Laktonen. Súgucihpet-our way of living / McKibben Jackinsky. Kodiak Alutiiq weather lore / Craig Mishler. Big Ed Gregorieff / William Simeone. Subsistence fishing / Shauna Lukin -- Ukgwepet-"Our beliefs": Alutiiq spiritual life and traditions / Aron L. Crowell and Jeff Leer. The dance continues / Jeff Leer -- Alutiiq paths / Martha Demientieff ... [et al.]; edited by Shirley Mae Springer Staten.