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No college campus in America has a wilder or more magnificent natural setting than that of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This history of UAF commemorates the colorful past of one of America's most unusual educational institutions. It tells the story of how the University of Alaska Fairbanks has changed the lives of thousands of people over the past seventy-five years.

Moses Cruikshank, an Athabaskan elder and storyteller from interior Alaska, blends description, opinion, advice, and humor to teach lessons learned from living in the country.The first part of the book is the author's stories, the second part is a discussion of the historical significance of the stories and methods used to reproduce the oral record in written form.

The author was an Inupiaq elder from Wainwright, a village on the Arctic Coast of Alaska, his life story enhances our understanding of North Slope history and culture. Bodfish was a good observer with a keen interest in people and an excellent memory for detail. Perhaps most important, he had a strong appreciation of the significance of the things he experienced.Kusiq includes seven appendices containing information on pronunciation, personal ...

This prose sampler from West Greenland reveals a century-old independent literary tradition, the rich written expression in a native North American language of an ancient and successful culture. Linguist Michael Fortescue compiled these excerpts to demonstrate the range of Greenlandic writing and make works in this flourishing language more accessible to English-speaking readers.

Berry literally teaches us to see in these pages. These images will endure as long as civilization.

As a young man, naturalist, William Berry felt the call of both art and biology. This book is a union of both -- a collection of this well-known artist's early field sketches of Alaska plants and animals, accurately rendered and beautifully detailed. Organized into four sections -- Mr. McKinley Park, Color Sketches, Point Hope, and Around and About Alaska -- Berry's collection is an acknowledged contribution to the natural history of Alaska.

A work of inestimable value in the study of Alaska history. Reseachers have long relied on the records in the National Archives to document and evaluate the activities of the federal government in Alaska. Now scholars can refer to a published guide for a comprehensive description of the major record groups, series, and subseries of records pertaining to Alaska. The guide will not only facilitate their work but impress upon researchers what a ...

Claus-M. Naske has written the first biography of the man who helped to make Alaska the forty-ninth state and who served as one of Alaska's first senators. More than a regional political history, the story of Bob Bartlett involves his opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam and his early warnings about the dangers posed by radiation.

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The SKYRIVER process--a video communication tool developed by Timothy Kennedy to allow Native Alaskans in remote areas to express their concerns to elected officials--has received a great deal of recognition for its innovative use of video and film tools to enhance and strengthen citizen participation in the decision-making processes of government. The collaborative process led to direct communication between the villages and government offici...

Hans Himmelheber describes the cultural and artistic heritage of the Yup'ik in southwestern Alaska during the late 1930s. His work is remarkable because he emphasized drawing, carving, and painting as part of a narrative process instead of focusing on Yup'ik art as artifacts. "Eskimo Artists" is rich in examples attributed to named orators, and interpretation is kept to a minimum. Himmelheber includes family histories, daily and ceremonial act...

There are some twenty-five words for 'snow' in the Inupiaq language. Each word denotes a different kind of snow - fresh powder snow, hard pack, soft snow, very wet snow, or just snow. This book teaches Arctic residents the importance of Arctic snow cover.

The northern fur seal spends most of its life in the open ocean of the North Pacific, from California up through Alaska and down to Japan. These seals travel hundreds of miles, farther than any other seal or sea lion, to reach their remote breeding grounds. Most fur seals go to the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, where, historically, several million fur seals converged annually, but the population counted in the Pribilofs in 2008 was less than one...

For centuries, Inuit and their ancestors have been building beautiful rock structures known as "inuksuit" across the Arctic and sub-Arctic. But such monuments are not limited to the Inuit culture, and in fact "tukiliit" --the Inuktitut term for "all" meaningful stone objects--are found all over the world. "Tukiliit" ventures to Iceland, India, the Faroe Islands, and the Utah desert to document a range of inuksuk-like figures. It features ninet...

like a dark flame burnedmy minds's petty length. I'm tired of human clamor, smudge and clutter of the world.Who wants to go ongoverned by the same rude horns, the demagogues, the rabble? Anne Coray is unapologetic in her attempts to bring the plight of the environment to the masses. Her words are forthright, her language is clear--but Coray's poems are not to be mistaken as easy. "Bone Strings" is a harrowing, magnificent, and morbid examinati...

Like many men of the nineteenth century, Joseph Francis Ladue (1854-1901) sought to rise from humble origins to a position of wealth--by way of the motherlode. His quest took him to the dusty, rowdy boomtowns of Deadwood and Tombstone and the unexplored territory of Canada's Yukon. There, for fifteen years, he worked as a prospector, trader, miner, and promoter of the Yukon Valley. When gold was discovered in the Klondike, Ladue founded Dawson...