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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