Alaska Native Cultures and Issues

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602230927
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska Native Cultures and Issues by : Libby Roderick

Download or read book Alaska Native Cultures and Issues written by Libby Roderick and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the important issues they face. This concise book compiles frequently asked questions and provides informative and accessible responses that shed light on some common misconceptions. With responses composed by scholars within the represented communities and reviewed by a panel of experts, this easy-to-read compendium aims to facilitate a deeper exploration and richer discussion of the complex and compelling issues that are part of Alaska Native life today.

Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives

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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Book Synopsis Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives by : Alaska. Governor's Commission on Cross-Cultural Education

Download or read book Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives written by Alaska. Governor's Commission on Cross-Cultural Education and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Changes in Traditional Gender Roles for Alaska Natives

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Book Synopsis Changes in Traditional Gender Roles for Alaska Natives by : Eleanor Kyle Wirts

Download or read book Changes in Traditional Gender Roles for Alaska Natives written by Eleanor Kyle Wirts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the past century, especially since the 1960s, Alaska Natives have faced rapid cultural and socio-economic change as Western influences have increasingly infiltrated the Native life-ways; since the 1960s social problems, including alcohol abuse, violence, and suicide have plagued Native individuals, families and communities. Arguably, a source of these social problems is the striking shift from clearly defined gender roles for Native adults that guided youth to adulthood in the past to opaque and ambiguous roles for adults that draw on both traditional and Western cultures. Historically, clearly defined gender roles provided youth with the role models necessary for maturing into healthy, productive adults and thereby offered youth a sense of purpose, direction and identity. Today's youth must look for cues in both traditional and Western culture to envision their futures, and with often conflicting value systems and too few strong adult role models to follow, many youth, especially males, are floundering. Healthy adult and elder role models are essential to the well-being of Native youth as they mature into adulthood. The revitalization of mentors, role models and close relationships between adults and youth are critical to future health and well-being of Alaska Native individuals, families and communities"--Leaf iii.

Mental Health

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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319052667
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States by : Julie Koppel Maldonado

Download or read book Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States written by Julie Koppel Maldonado and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book. Previously published in Climatic Change, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.

Changing Numbers, Changing Needs

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Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309553180
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Book Synopsis Changing Numbers, Changing Needs by : Committee on Population

Download or read book Changing Numbers, Changing Needs written by Committee on Population and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-09-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population--their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.

Alaska Native Education

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Publisher : Alaska Native Knowledge Network
ISBN 13 : 9781877962431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (624 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska Native Education by : Ray Barnhardt

Download or read book Alaska Native Education written by Ray Barnhardt and published by Alaska Native Knowledge Network. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century, the outside world has increasingly encroached on Alaska Native communities, and one of the consequences of that change has been a shift in the purpose and structure of schools in Alaska Native communities. Alaska Native Education brings together a variety of experts in the field of indigenous education to show the ways in which Alaska Natives have adopted and adapted outside ideas and rules regarding education and how they have frequently found them problematic and insufficient. The authors follow their analysis with suggestions of ways forward, emphasizing the benefits of blending new and old practices that will simultaneously prepare Alaska Native students for the future while preserving and strengthening their ties to the past."

How Alaska Natives Learn and Changes to Alaska Education that Would Ensure Success

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Total Pages : 122 pages
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Book Synopsis How Alaska Natives Learn and Changes to Alaska Education that Would Ensure Success by : Sally Woods Kookesh

Download or read book How Alaska Natives Learn and Changes to Alaska Education that Would Ensure Success written by Sally Woods Kookesh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have examined 47 articles that related to Alaska Native/American Indian education and culturally responsive education. I found problems in K-12 education for Alaska Natives; historical contexts; cultural context; building bridges; and the future for K-12 education for Alaska Natives were common themes throughout my review of the literature. Problems with education were established 200 years ago and Alaska Natives still perform lower than their non-Native counterparts; historical context tells a story of past Native educational and mainstram practices; cultural context can play a positive role in closing the achievement gap through language, culture, and involving the community; building bridges can occur between Native and non-Native systems by using best practices and local ways of knowing in a diverse cultural climate; and looking forward by changing K-12 education for Alaska Natives through involving Native parents, communities, educators, and universities as equal collaborators in education for Alaska Natives.

Alaska Natives in a Century of Change

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska Natives in a Century of Change by : Michael J. Levin

Download or read book Alaska Natives in a Century of Change written by Michael J. Levin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alaska Natives and American Laws

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ISBN 13 : 9781889963082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Alaska Natives and American Laws by : David S. Case

Download or read book Alaska Natives and American Laws written by David S. Case and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act became law, Alaska Natives are subject more than ever to a dizzying array of laws, statutes, and regulations. Once again, Case and Voluck have provided the most rigorous and comprehensive presentation of the important laws and concepts in Alaska Native law and policy to date. This second edition provides a much-expanded and up-to-date analysis of ANCSA, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, and four fields of Alaska Native law and policy: land, human services, subsistence, and self-government. The authors also trace the development of the Alaska Native organizations working to influence and change these policies. Like the first edition, the expanded Alaska Natives and American Laws is the essential reference for anyone working in Native law, policy, or social services, and for scholars and students in law, public policy, environmental studies, and Native American studies.

The Alaska Native Reader

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390833
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis The Alaska Native Reader by : Maria Sháa Tláa Williams

Download or read book The Alaska Native Reader written by Maria Sháa Tláa Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska’s first peoples are often ignored, while the stories of Russian fur hunters and American gold miners, of salmon canneries and oil pipelines, are praised. Filled with essays, poems, songs, stories, maps, and visual art, this volume foregrounds the perspectives of Alaska Native people, from a Tlingit photographer to Athabascan and Yup’ik linguists, and from an Alutiiq mask carver to a prominent Native politician and member of Alaska’s House of Representatives. The contributors, most of whom are Alaska Natives, include scholars, political leaders, activists, and artists. The majority of the pieces in The Alaska Native Reader were written especially for the volume, while several were translated from Native languages. The Alaska Native Reader describes indigenous worldviews, languages, arts, and other cultural traditions as well as contemporary efforts to preserve them. Several pieces examine Alaska Natives’ experiences of and resistance to Russian and American colonialism; some of these address land claims, self-determination, and sovereignty. Some essays discuss contemporary Alaska Native literature, indigenous philosophical and spiritual tenets, and the ways that Native peoples are represented in the media. Others take up such diverse topics as the use of digital technologies to document Native cultures, planning systems that have enabled indigenous communities to survive in the Arctic for thousands of years, and a project to accurately represent Dena’ina heritage in and around Anchorage. Fourteen of the volume’s many illustrations appear in color, including work by the contemporary artists Subhankar Banerjee, Perry Eaton, Erica Lord, and Larry McNeil.

Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives

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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives by : Alaska. Governor's Commission on Cross-Cultural Education

Download or read book Time for Change in the Education of Alaska Natives written by Alaska. Governor's Commission on Cross-Cultural Education and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Change for Alaska's Natives

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Change for Alaska's Natives by : Patrick M. Anderson

Download or read book Change for Alaska's Natives written by Patrick M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture Change and Identity Among Alaska Natives

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
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Book Synopsis Culture Change and Identity Among Alaska Natives by : Ann Fienup-Riordan

Download or read book Culture Change and Identity Among Alaska Natives written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the discontinuities between the so-called 'traditional' cultural values of Alaska natives and the modernized social relations of the larger society, and the ways in which these discontinuities change how Alaska natives understand, and act in, the modern world, as well as over the last two hundred years of contact.

With the Wind and the Waves

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234175
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis With the Wind and the Waves by : Ray M. Droby

Download or read book With the Wind and the Waves written by Ray M. Droby and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psychologist in rural Alaska. Like negotiating an ocean, Droby moves “with the wind and the waves” while working with substance abuse disorders and mental health issues superimposed on intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression. He captures positive momentum in work aimed at facilitating self-determination with Alaska Natives and their communities while discouraging historical dependency and colonizing patterns of thinking and doing for mental health workers. Sensitive to the history of non-Native outsiders imposing their own culture on Native land, Droby presents here principles, combined with cultural and therapy considerations, that are designed to help people avoid replicating this history of harm. Recognizing the strengths of Alaska Natives and their communities, and the stages of change human individuals and communities undergo, Droby shows how to exercise a nonjudgmental presence as a mental health worker in rural Alaska.

Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496204042
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son by : Mary F. Ehrlander

Download or read book Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son written by Mary F. Ehrlander and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Summary of Changes in the Status of Alaska Natives

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Total Pages : 21 pages
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Book Synopsis A Summary of Changes in the Status of Alaska Natives by : University of Alaska (System). Institute of Social and Economic Research

Download or read book A Summary of Changes in the Status of Alaska Natives written by University of Alaska (System). Institute of Social and Economic Research and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: