Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II

Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War IIAlaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of

a series of "personality prints" of American public figures like Amelia Earhart

Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor

states' rights advocates

With its new introduction

A beautiful and daring vision of political

and swiping the occasional catalytic converter

philosophy

and chefs’ who make their living building and contributing to local economies throughout the Upper Midwest

poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection

Based on Sainte-Marie's song of the same name

Elise Hunchuck

But Mavasta would often wonder: what was his kwa'a like when he was a boy