Taatsaa Shaa K Exalthet

Author : Kenny Thomas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0806136596

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Taatsaa' Shaa K' Exalthet by Kenny Thomas Pdf

Born in 1922, Kenny Thomas Sr. has been a trapper, firefighter, road builder, river-freight hauler, and soldier. Today he is a respected elder and member of a northern Athabaskan tribal group residing in Tanacross, Alaska. As a song and dance leader for the Tanacross community, Thomas has been teaching village traditions at an annual culture camp for more than twenty years. Over a three-year period, folklorist Craig Mishler conducted a series of interviews with Thomas about his life experiences. Crow Is My Boss is the fascinating result of this collaboration. Written in a style that reflects the dialogue between Thomas and Mishler, Crow Is My Boss retains the authenticity of Thomas’s voice, capturing his honesty and humor. Thomas reveals biographical details, performs and explains traditional folktales and the potlatch tradition, and discusses ghosts and medicine people. One folktale is presented in both English and Tanacross, Thomas’s native language. A compelling personal story, Crow Is My Boss provides insight into the traditional and contemporary culture of Tanacross Athabaskans in Alaska. Volume 250 in the Civilization of the American Indian series

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UOM:39015079785302

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Alaska History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123362191

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The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska by Anonim Pdf

Investigates the complex relationship that Alaska has with its most precious commodity - oil - and with the corporations that bring that oil to market. This book explores the dynamic balance between the power of a subnational government and the ability of Big Oil to develop energy resources, affect the state economy, and influence state policies.

Author : Jerry McBeath,Maria Elena Reyes,Mary Ehrlander
Publisher : IAP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607527428

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Education Reform in the American States by Jerry McBeath,Maria Elena Reyes,Mary Ehrlander Pdf

Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of the accountability movement in American public education, culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of 2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement, placing it in historical context and addressing the evolution in public education policymaking from the overwhelming emphasis on state and local discretion to increasing federal oversight and mandates related to federal funding. They provide case studies of the educational accountability movements in nine states and analyze the factors and forces which explain progress in achievement levels as measured on standardized tests and the states' prospects for meeting their NCLB targets. The book and the individual case studies acknowledge the merits of NCLB while exposing several significant flaws and unintended harmful consequences of the act, particularly its incentives for states to lower their standards in order to meet annual yearly progress targets and its threat to withdraw federal funds from districts with the highest percentage of disadvantaged students. The audience for this study includes local, state and federal education policy makers; administrators and instructors in schools of education and other teaching programs, educators; and the general public.

Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496204042

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Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son by Mary F. Ehrlander Pdf

Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America's tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska's Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913. Walter's strong Athabascan identity allowed him to remain grounded in his birth culture as his Western education expanded and he became a leader and a bridge between Alaska Native peoples and Westerners in the Alaska territory. He planned to become a medical missionary in Interior Alaska, but his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five, in the Princess Sophia disaster of 1918 near Skagway, Alaska. Harper exemplified resilience during an era when rapid socioeconomic and cultural change was wreaking havoc in Alaska Native villages. Today he stands equally as an exemplar of Athabascan manhood and healthy acculturation to Western lifeways whose life will resonate with today's readers.

Author : Stephen T. Moore
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803254916

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Bootleggers and Borders by Stephen T. Moore Pdf

Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars promptly headed north and Canadian liquor went south. Despite repeated efforts, Americans were unable to secure Canadian assistance in enforcing American prohibition laws until 1930. Bootleggers and Borders explores the important but surprisingly overlooked Canada-U.S. relationship in the Pacific Northwest during Prohibition. Stephen T. Moore maintains that the reason Prohibition created such an intractable problem lies not with the relationship between Ottawa and Washington DC but with everyday operations experienced at the border level, where foreign relations are conducted according to different methods and rules and are informed by different assumptions, identities, and cultural values. Through an exploration of border relations in the Pacific Northwest, Bootleggers and Borders offers insight into not only the Canada-U.S. relationship but also the subtle but important differences in the tactics Canadians and Americans employed when confronted with similar problems. Ultimately, British Columbia’s method of addressing temperance provided the United States with a model that would become central to its abandonment and replacement of Prohibition.

Author : Mary F. Ehrlander
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055597499

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Equal Educational Opportunity by Mary F. Ehrlander Pdf

Annotation In this revision of her dissertation (in government, from U. of Virginia), Ehrlander (history, U. of Alaska, Fairbanks) considers the history and current state of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education mandate that initiated school desegregation. To assess desegregation's progress, Ehrlander presents case studies of school districts in four states, describing the impact of desegregation they experienced following the 1954 ruling and in the 1990s. The Clinton administration's actions regarding fair housing and related issues are discussed in conclusion. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UCBK:C083585873

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Tunnel Vision by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth Pdf

Author : Robert Fortuine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015060880898

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"Must We All Die?" by Robert Fortuine Pdf

Alaska Natives have struggled with the 'white plague' of tuberculosis for centuries. At last, physician and historian Robert Fortuine brings their story to light. He provides a comprehensive account of tuberculosis from its earliest occurrence in prehistory through the latest outbreaks, made more threatening by HIV/AIDS. Fortuine describes the courage and self-sacrifice of itinerant nurses who endured challenging and often dangerous conditions, as well as the efforts of doctors who fought cuts in funding as valiantly as they battled for the lives of their patients. Fortuine chronicles the removal of tuberculosis victims, many of them children, from their families and villages to hospitals in the Lower 48 states. He describes treatments, medical advances, and day-to-day life for the nurses, physicians, missionaries and teachers who worked to stem the tide that killed and disabled thousands. The struggle against tuberculosis in Alaska is a story of triumph against untold suffering and crippling odds, but it is also a cautionary tale, as villages experience the re-emergence of an increasingly resistant disease in the twenty-first century. Must We All Die? is a timely and encyclopedic contribution to the history of medicine. Historians and health care professionals will hail the volume as a classic, a tribute to those who fought tuberculosis and to the Alaska Natives who endured a cruel disease that destroyed families and ravaged villages.