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Describes the author's journey in the Alaskan bush, and examines how the bush cultures are adapting to the twentieth century
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Kizzia, a journalist with the Anchorage Daily News , here seeks aboriginal culture on a beat without roads: Alaska's remote Native Aleut and Eskimo villages. As he looks for bits of wisdom that "Alaska's indigenous people remember. . . about a world that the rest of us have forgotten," he compiles 11 reports from communities like Mary's Igloo, Red Devil and Sleetmute that clearly represent a fractured culture. For instance, Yup'ik elders, who court hunting success with drums and dances, forbid young people to dance to rock 'n' roll because of beliefs holding that dance without purpose is sinful. Kizzia's quest proves at least a generation too late, but though his original purpose is unrealized, his encounters with Athabaskan softball teams, Yup'ik walrus hunters, and violent alcohol-related crime and death near Red Devil leave an interesting, if sometimes disturbing, wake of contradictions. Aficionados of John McPhee's Coming into the Country will be intrigued by another view of Alaska.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Today, Alaska's Native peoples face the challenge of retaining their traditional cultures while dealing with the panoply of resources and policies laid out by white decision-makers in the lower 48 states. In this very personal account, journalist Kizzia chronicles his visits to Native settlements in Alaska's remote bush country, including descriptions of fishing for salm on from a Black River Yup'ik Eskimo fishing camp, traveling down the Tanana River to root for the Athabaskan Indian softball team from Tetlin, and cheering on a dog sled team at the first race of the season. The author tries to understand issues from a Native point of view and invites his readers to do the same. A nice addition to the growing body of literature about life in Alaska today.
- Mary B. Davis, Huntington Free Lib., Bronx, New York
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0805014713
- ISBN 13 9780805014716
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages277
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