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"Dá̈kwändür Ghay Ghàkwädīndür--Our Story in Our Words tells the story of the peoples of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, from thousands of years ago to the present day. This richly illustrated book includes traditional stories from long ago, told by Elders, about the origins of the world and the aftermath of a great flood, about "The Double Winter" and "The Girl Who Married the Bear." Several stories appear in Tlingit, Tagish, Northern Tutchone, or Southern Tutchone, to share these original languages of Kwanlin Dün with the next generation. The lives of early inhabitants of the Southern Yukon are imagined with reference to archaelogical finds and scientific understandings. Elders also share stories about the arrival of white people, about the Gold Rush days and the building of the Alaska Highway, and all the intense challenges that Kwanlin Dün faced. KDFN citizens recall the decades-long land claims struggle that culminated in the KDFN Final Agreements in 2005. And the many nation-building accomplishments since then are celebrated--with an eye to much success ahead. Throughout the book are striking historical pictures, beautiful contemporary artwork, and vivid photographs of the land. Dá̈kwändür Ghay Ghàkwädīndür--Our Story in Our Words is a wide-ranging story, told in many unique voices, that celebrates the values, endurance, and accomplishments of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation."--

The article analyzes the nation‑building process in Central Europe in the context of conditions and specific character of historical processes. It identifies the origin of the dilemma in Central Europe: political or ethnic‑cultural nations. The study shows why ethnic‑cultural communities developed in this region. It also describes the extent and the dynamics of disputes over the problem between the most important political trends arisen in Central Europe, and emphasizes the intensity of rivalry over this question in the interwar years, primarily in the Second Republic of Poland, the Kingdom of Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. The paper also analyzes the style of thinking practiced by the adherents to the concept of Central European political nations: Józef Piłsudski, Tomaš G. Masaryk, and Miklós Horthy.

In the twentieth century, nationalism has become an unwritten yet strong hegemonic rule that prescribes and defines cultural configurations of statehood. In the context of post-socialist and post-colonial transformations in "expanding" Eastern Europe, nation building is a complicated and incoherent process: the nation's canonic attributes may contradict the cultural and historical "circumstances" of the development of a particular nation. This article questions a complicated dynamic between theoretical frameworks of nationalism and their applications in Eastern European states, such as in Belarus. More specifically, it argues against the discursive conceptualization of Belarus as a "nonexistent" or "undeveloped" nation. This article suggests rethinking nation building in Belarus in relation to the notion of major/minor developed by Deleuze and Guattari. The author implies that the unusual mode of Belarusian nationalism is not only a part of a struggle for domination between different intellectual groups in Belarus; it is also an issue of relying on traditional scholarly paradigms of nationalism that may no longer suffice. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright the American Council of Learned Societies.]

Suffrage, gender and citizenship in Finland : a comparative perspective / Irma Sulkunen -- Möglichkeitsstrukturen, Ressourcen und frames : Die Erringung des Frauenwahlrechts in Österreich / Birgit Sauer -- Women's movement and nation-building in Latvia (from late 19th century to 1940) / Irina Novikova -- Das Streben der Finninnen nach dem Wahlrecht--aus dem Blickwinkel zeitgenössischer Feministinnen in Ungarn / Irén Borbála Elekes -- Women and the language of Hungarian politics / Klára Sándor -- Frauen und die Planung der Muttersprache / Lea Laitinen -- Minority narration and majority national discourses / Anneli Sarhimaa -- Three Finnish women authors from the early 1900's and aspects of class and race / Heidi Grönstrand -- Die Marien in der Sonne (Die Apokalyptischen Madonnen) / Andrea Pető -- Vom Verschwinden der "Amazonen" und anderer Nationalverstaatlichungen--Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Geschlecht und Nation im Deutschen Kaiserreich / Nora Gresch -- The nation as a woman / Johanna Laakso