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Alaskan History

Books on: (alaska OR alaskan) AND history

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Raising Young Children in an Alaskan Ianupiaq Village: The Family, Cultural, and Village Environment of Rearing

Book by Julie Winkler Sprott; Bergin & Garvey, 2002

Subjects:

Child Rearing--Alaska, Inuit Children--Alaska, Inuit--Alaska--Social Life And Customs, Noorvik (Alaska)--Social Life And Customs, Parenting--Alaska

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...M. (1980). The study of Alaska Eskimo childhood: Chance...Papers of the University of Alaska, 19 , 2-14. Laslett, P...Lee (Eds.), Politics and history in band societies (pp. 1...child interaction among the Alaskan Eskimos. JOGNN, 24 (5...i anich . Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center. Marenin...
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History of Alaska

Book by Henry W. Clark; The Macmillan, 1930

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Alaska--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...shore. The only true forest section is that of southeastern Alaska. The Yukon Valley is studded with islands of forests but...zone of economic production of lumber has already reached Alaska. Alaskan mills are now shipping lumber to the Orient, Australia and...
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Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska

Book by Theodore Catton; University of New Mexico Press, 1997

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Denali National Park And Preserve (Alaska)--History, Gates Of The Arctic National Park And Preserve (Alaska)--History, Glacier Bay National Park And Preserve (Alaska)--History, Indians Of North America--Alaska--Government Relations--History--20th Century--Case Studies, National Parks And Reserves--Alaska--History--20th Century--Case Studies, United States--National Park Service--History--Case Studies

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to Congress to establish a great wilderness in northern Alaska. The Alaskan frontier was best understood as a preferred way of life, rather than a stage of economic development that Alaskans were trying to get beyond. This made the Alaskan frontier different; it was uniquely mod
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American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 - Vol. 1

Book by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., James W. Parins; Greenwood Press, 1984

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Eskimo Newspapers--Alaska--History, Eskimo Periodicals--Alaska--History, Indian Newspapers--United States--History, Indian Periodicals--United States--History

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...platform and Pauls insistance that The Alaska Fisherman appeared in the "interests...monitored the legislative process in Alaska and Washington. Paul was a successful...summarized legislation affecting Native Alaskans. Paul stood for a full territorial government for Alaska, which he believed was ruled by "carpetbag...for Alaska Native survival and for the Alaskan economy. He sought more opportunities...
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The Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaska Panhandle

Book by Lewis Green; University of British Columbia Press, 1982

Subjects:

Alaska--Boundaries--Canada, Canada--Boundaries--Alaska, Surveying--Alaska--History, Surveying--British Columbia--History, Surveying--Yukon Territory--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Drawing the Alaskan Boundary." Canadian Historical...24, also in Sherwood, Alaska and Its History , 1967. United States. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. London...L.S. "How I Went to Alaska." Canadian Surveyor July...

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Journal Articles on: (alaska OR alaskan) AND history

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Flight to the starsL the 1934 Air Corps Alaskan Expedition

Journal article by Kenneth P. Werrell; Air Power History, Vol. 58, 2011

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Aeronautics--Flights, Aeronautics--History, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, Discoveries (in geography)--History, Discovery and exploration--History, Flights (Aeronautics)--History, Military missions--History, United States. Army. Air Corps--Equipment and supplies, United States. Army. Air Corps--History, United States. Army. Air Corps--Officials and employees

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The 1934 Air Corps Alaskan Expedition truly was...and actions regarding Alaska, see Galen Perras and...Journal of Military History, Jul 2008. (3...slammed into a mountain in Alaska without injury to the...Office of Air Force History, 1987), pp. 187-88, map 7. (9.) Alaskan Air Command, The Air Force in Alaska, pt. 1, pp. 29...
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From the Trapline to the Library: Alaskan Oral History Origins

Journal article by Robyn Russell; The Oral History Review, Vol. 29, 2002

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Alaska--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the trapline to the library: Alaskan oral history origins. by Robyn Russell...until I came to work for the Alaska and Polar Regions Department...my familys trapline in rural Alaska where our main forms of entertainment...manager for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program...
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Voices of the Alaskan Alutiiq Cultural Reawakening: Traditional Dance Arts Have Rejuvenated This Indigenous Culture

Journal article by Ellen Van'T Hof; JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Vol. 80, 2009

Subjects:

Finding Their Own Dance: Reawakening the Alaskan Alutiiq Arts (Motion picture), Native American dance--Appreciation, Native American dance--History, Native American dance--Protection and preservation, Native American dance--Research, Native Americans--Appreciation, Native Americans--Dances, Native Americans--History, Native Americans--Protection and preservation, Native Americans--Research

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Voices of the Alaskan Alutiiq Cultural Reawakening...Looking first to Alaska, I hoped to spend...Alaska possess rich histories and traditions responding...imperialism throughout history. The Alutiiq story...2001). Making history: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq life on the Alaska peninsula. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press. Vant Hof...dance: Reawakening the Alaskan Alutiiq arts Documentary...
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Diversifying the Alaskan Economy: Political, Social, and Economic Constraints

Journal article by William S. Brown, Clive S. Thomas; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 30, 1996

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Alaska--Economic aspects, Diversification in industry--Analysis

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...1995 Throughout its modern history, the rich resource base of Alaska has brought both benefits...resource that dominates the Alaskan economy today, of course...so too does the economy of Alaska. This paper will examine the Alaskan economy and explain why such...arrived in 1762, Native Alaskans lived off the land and seas...
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Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW

Journal article by Jeffrey P. Joyce; Air Power History, Vol. 57, 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Last Letters from Attu: The True Story of Etta Jones, Alaska Pioneer and Japanese POW. (Biography)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Japanese, but also her earlier life in Alaska through letters and her unpublished memoir. Moving to Alaska in 1922, in search of adventure with...remote villages as employees of the Alaskan Indian Service, operating schools for the native Alaskans. Through Jones personal letters and...reader is transported back to a time when Alaska was still a harsh frontier only a few...

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Magazine Articles on: (alaska OR alaskan) AND history

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Alaska Is in the Heart: How a New Musical and a Community-Based Drama Vie to Capture the Frontier Lives and Immigrant Dreams of Filipino Alaskans

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 22, July 2005

Subjects:

Alaska, DuBois, Peter--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, DuBois, Peter--Performances, Ellefson, Merry--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ellefson, Merry--Performances, Filipino Americans--Performances, Filipino Americans--Personal narratives, Native Americans (Northwest)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Obispo, Fabian--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Obispo, Fabian--Performances, Quinto, Marcelo--Performances, Quinto, Marcelo--Personal narratives, The Long Season (Play)--Performances, Voyage (Play)--Performances, Yew, Chay--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Yew, Chay--Performances

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...slimed fish in the Alaskan canneries, and caught...who settled in Alaska during the first decades...century, a potent history that is rarely told...is how these two Alaskan portraits vie and strive...Inupiat Eskimos and Alaskan whaling communities...among them former Alaska state legislator Thelma...author of the invaluable history Filipinos in Alaska...
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Alaskan Courtesy

Magazine article by Scott McPherson; Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 52, June 2002

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Alaska, Firearm laws & regulations, Mental health, Permits, State court decisions

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Alaskan Courtesy by Scott McPherson Alaska is most often thought...passed in 1995, the Alaska Department of Public...Hwas knowledge of history is a little shaky...them uncomfortable. "Alaska seems more likely than...under supervision. The Alaskan appeals court saw straight...
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Alaskan Oil--another Saudi Arabia?

Magazine article by Martin Gross; Human Events, Vol. 58, March 18, 2002

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Alaska, Domestic markets, Federal regulation, Oil reserves, Petroleum industry, States, United States

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Alaskan Oil--another Saudi...undeveloped oil area-Alaska. The problem goes all...largest land grab in history. Uncle Sam took 59...Native Americans. Is Alaska producing much oil...potential does it have? Alaska now accounts for 20...Is that the end of Alaskan oil potential? Hardly...
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Caught in a Net: Fifteen Years after Exxon Valdez, Alaskan Fishermen Are Still Waiting for a Settlement

Magazine article by Ashley Shelby; E, Vol. 15, July 2004

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Alaska--Environmental aspects, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1989--Environmental aspects, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1989--Social aspects, Oil spills--Remedies, Remedies (Law)--Forecasts and trends

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...after Exxon Valdez, Alaskan Fishermen Are Still...Memorial in Cordova, Alaska, Brian ONeill is using...alcoholic who had a history of shipboard binges...with substance abuse histories) to its opinion that...Page wrote in the Alaska Daily News. If this...punitive damage award in history, it may not be enough...themselves." CONTACT: Alaska Center for the Environment...org; Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies...
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John Muir's Alaskan Rhapsody

Magazine article by Edward Hoagland; American Scholar, Vol. 71, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Alaska--Environmental aspects, Environmental activists--Behavior, Environmentalists--Behavior, Muir, John--Behavior

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...rapturous interpretations of Alaska for decades to come with his...accompanied Muir on several hairy Alaskan ice-field adventures near...the completion of Travels in Alaska (a better book) until pneumonia...California, that retrieve earlier history. In Alaska, in his forties, he had felt...

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Newspaper Articles on: (alaska OR alaskan) AND history

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Earliest Human Remains in Alaskan Arctic Reported

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 25, 2011

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News agencies, The Associated Press, University of Alaska

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Earliest Human Remains in Alaskan Arctic Reported. Byline...their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial...Potter of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While ancient Alaskans were known to hunt large game...Tanana lowlands in central Alaska, Potter and his colleagues...National Museum of Natural History, agreed that "this is definitely...
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Alaskan Terror: Duke's Langdon Potential Nightmare for Terps in High-Profile ACC Matchup

Newspaper article by Jody Foldesy; The Washington Times, January 2, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Alaskan terror: Dukes Langdon potential...of the best shooters in ACC history and as easily the best player...lithe, he has been dubbed the Alaskan Assassin. "People ask, `How can a kid from Alaska be so good? " Langdons father...could be on the way: First Alaskan in the NBA. "I think hes...
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Alaskan Adventure

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 22, 2012

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Alaskan Adventure. To celebrate his...Princess for an awe-inspiring Alaskan experience It was a beautiful...our Voyage of the Glaciers Alaskan cruise, a once-in-a...we opted for their flagship Alaska cruise and Landtour to deliver...headed off on a guided natural history tour, which gave us first...
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Alaskan Remembered for 'Stevens Money,' 'Bridge to Nowhere'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 11, 2010

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Stevens, Ted, United States. Department of the Interior

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Alaskan Remembered for Stevens Money...S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who served longer as a Republican...anyone else in the chambers history, died in a plane crash Monday...that helped practically every Alaska resident and businesses. So...was his federal spending in Alaska that residents called it Stevens...
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The Day the US Stopped Freezing out the Alaskans

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 3, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Stopped Freezing out the Alaskans. Byline: DOMINIC SANDBROOK...she will become the first Alaskan ever on an American presidential...And it has an extraordinary history for Alaska could so easily have been...magnificent sea-otter pelts, Alaska was immediately hailed as...statehood until 1958. Even now, Alaskans remain a people apart. Their...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (alaska OR alaskan) AND history

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Alaska

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Anchorage, and Juneau; and Alaska Pacific Univ., at Anchorage. History Russian Colonization...Baranov who directed its Alaskan activities. Baranov...America occurred in Alaska, taking approximately...aid, was rapid. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement...almost $1 billion to Alaskan native peoples in exchange...oil spill in U.S. history and severely damaging...
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Harriman, Edward Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...by James J. Hill in a struggle famous in American financial history. In a later compromise, he joined with Hill and J. P. Morgan...speculatively in railroad stocks elsewhere. He conducted the Harriman Alaskan expedition of 1899, a scientific undertaking; sponsored boys...
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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...undertook (1913 18) the most prolonged polar exploration in history by remaining N of the Arctic Circle for an unbroken period of more than five years while exploring the Canadian and Alaskan sectors of the Arctic. In 1952, Stefansson Island, at...
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National Parks and Monuments

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...habitation. Lake Clark PP S Alaska 1978 4,030,058 (1,631...interesting glacial features and history. Wind Cave NP SW S.Dak...Wrangell St. Elias PP SW Alaska 1978 13,176,371 (5,334...historic area. Aniakchak MR SW Alaska 1978 602,779 (244,040...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the President and the Vice President. History European Exploration and Settlement Exploration...on Aug. 9, the first president in the history of the republic to be driven from office...the highest public approval rating in history. Mounting domestic problems, however...

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