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The Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience (ANCHRR) engages Indigenous leadership at all levels in a strength-based study to deepen our understanding of community level protective factors in Indigenous communities, which are the collective influences shaping individual wellbeing across time. Overall, ANCHRR aims to position Alaska Native Tribes, Tribal organizations, and community members as the guides for culturally responsive research that is aligned with community priorities of increasing resilience and wellbeing among Alaska Native youth and reducing their suicide risk. Our approach brings together Indigenous knowledge and research methods that humbly draw attention to the solutions that already exist within communities. An Indigenous paradigm shifts the approach from a singular focus on individuals and their risks and deficits to appreciation for the cultural, community, and systemic ways in which community members support, care for, and guide their young people into adulthood. We describe the lessons learned about this unique approach to Indigenous leadership and community engagement and discuss the research processes that keep the relational heart-work at the center of every project activity. This capacity-building, mutually beneficial and relational approach offers new insights to knowledge development endeavors.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Alaska and Its People: An Introduction -- I Portraits of Nations: Telling Our Own Story -- Lazeni 'linn Nataełde Ghadghaande: When Russians Were Killed at "Roasted Salmon Place" (Batzulnetas) -- The Fur Rush: A Chronicle of Colonial Life -- Redefining Our Planning Traditions: Caribou Fences, Community, and the Neetsaii Experience -- Memories of My Trap Line -- Cultural Identity through Yupiaq Narrative -- Dena'ina Ełnena: Dena'ina Country: The Dena'ina in Anchorage, Alaska -- Qaneryaramta Egmiucia: Continuing Our Language -- Deg Xinag Oral Traditions: Reconnecting Indigenous Language and Education through Traditional Narratives -- The Alaskan Haida Language Today: Reasons for Hope -- II Empire: Processing Colonization -- Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being -- Angoon Remembers: The Religious Significance of Balance and Reciprocity -- The Comity Agreement: Missionization of Alaska Native People -- Dena'ina Heritage and Representation in Anchorage: A Collaborative Project -- How It Feels to Have Your History Stolen -- Undermining Our Tribal Governments: The Stripping of Land, Resources, and Rights from Alaska Native Nations -- Terra Incognita: Communities and Resource Wars -- Why the Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim -- A Brief History of Native Solidarity -- III Worldviews: Alaska Native and Indigenous Epistemologies -- A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit -- The Cosmos: Indigenous Perspectives -- Seeing Mathematics with Indian Eyes -- What Is Truth? Where Western Science and Traditional Knowledge Converge -- The Yup'ik and Cup'ik People -- IV Native Arts: A Weaving of Melody and Color -- Ugiuvangmiut Illugiit Atuut: Teasing Cousins Songs of the King Island Iñupiat -- fly by night mythology: An Indigenous Guide to White Man, or How to Stay Sane When the World Makes No Sense -- Kodiak Masks: A Personal Odyssey -- Artifacts in Sound: A Century of Field Recordings of Alaska Natives -- Digital Media as a Means of Self Discovery: Identity Affirmations in Modern Technology -- America's Wretched -- The Alaska Native Arts Festival -- Conflict and Counter-Myth in the Film Smoke Signals -- Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction -- V Ravenstales -- Poems -- Poem -- Living in the Arctic -- Tunnel? . . . What Tunnel? -- Daisy's Best-Ever Moose Stew -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index