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The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement
In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government's arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it--launching America's environmental movement. As one of Alaska's most prominent authors, Dan O'Neill brings to these pages his love of Alaska's landscape, his skill as a nature and science writer, and his determination to expose one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age..
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The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos
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Alaska's Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century
Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, with a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and a father of German heritage. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of six, despite a harrowing, long midwinter sled ride to rescue her, lost both her legs to frostbite when her grandparents, with whom she was spending the winter in their traditional Eskimo home, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic. Fitted with artificial legs financed by an eastern benefactor, Elizabeth kept journals of her struggles, triumphs, and adventures, recording her impressions of the changing world around her and experiences with the motley characters she met. These included Roald Amundsen, whose dirigible landed in Teller after crossing the Arctic Circle; the ill-fated 1921 British colonists of Wrangel Island in the Arctic; trading ship captains and crews; prospectors; doomed aviators; and native reindeer herders. Elizabeth moved on to boarding school, marriage, and the state of Washington, where she compiled her records into this memoir and where she lived until her death in 2006. .
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Storytellers' Club: The Picture-Writing Women of the Arctic
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Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat Bowhead Hunt, a Sacred Tradition
Bill Hess —a noted photographer — began his association with the Inupiat Eskimos in 1982. Eventually, he got permission to accompany them on their historic whale hunt. This book is his record, in sensitive text and almost 200 stark images, of what he experienced. Hess explores Inupiat history and traditions juxtaposed against contemporary life, never shying away from the controversial aspects of this ancient trek. Gift of the Whale is a rare contribution to Native history. .
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Social Life in Northwest Alaska: The Structure of Inupiaq Eskimo Nations
This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture..
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Silent as the Hunter: An Inupiat Eskimo Mystery
The Last Dance of the Whale For ninety-seven years, Nalukataq -- the whale hunting festival in icy Barrow, Alaska -- has brought joy to Aana Clearwater's heart. This year, however, when she opens her door to greet one of the marked revelers in the ancient tradition, she is savagely assaulted in her own home. And then she vanishes, leaving behind a house in disarray...and a small puddle of blood. Inupiat police officer Raymond Attla understands the pressure he is under to get to the bottom of the old woman's probable abduction and possible murder quickly and quietly. The many celebrants and tourists who have flocked into town -- every one of them a potential suspect -- will be gone once the forty-eight-hour festival is over. ButAttla's hunt for the nature of -- and solution to -- a perplexing and lethal puzzle is leading him far from the games and songs and celebration to the dangerous, deteriorating ice floes away from town...where the relentless policeman will be forced to confront his worst terrors. .
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