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Alaska Quarterly Review

Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators: The Expanded Edition

SUGGESTED FURTHER READING 

Andrews, Susan B., and John Creed, eds. Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Apassingok, Anders, Willis Walunga, Raymond Oozevaseuk, and Edward Tennant, eds. Sivuqam Nangaghnegha Siivanllemta: Lore of St. Lawrence Island, Echoes of our Eskimo Elders. Vol. 2. Unalakleet, AK: Bering Straight School District, 1987a.

Apassingok, Anders, Willis Walunga, Raymond Oozevaseuk, and Edward Tennant, eds. Sivuqam Nangaghnegha Siivanllemta: Lore of St. Lawrence Island, Echoes of our Eskimo Elders. Vol. 3. Unalakleet, AK: Bering Straight School District, 1987b.

Attla, Catherine. K'tetaalkkaanee The One Who Paddled Among the People and the Animals: The Story of the Ancient Traveler. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1990.

Bergsland, Knut, and Moses L. Dirks, eds. Unangam Ungiikangin Kayux Tunusangin Unangam Uniijangis Ama Tunuzangis: Aleut Tales and Narratives. Collected 1909-1910 by Waldemar Jochelson. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1990.

Brown, Emily Ivanoff. Tales of Ticasuk. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1987.

Bruchac, Joseph, ed. Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Alaska Native Writing. Greenfield, NY: The Greenfield Press Review, 1991.

Burch, Ernest. S., Jr. The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of the Northwest Alaska. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 1998.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, and Richard Dauenhauer, eds. Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, and Richard Dauenhauer, eds. Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, For Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks, and Richard Dauenhauer, eds. Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks. The Droning Shaman. Haines, AK: Black Current Press, 1988.

Deloria, Vine Jr., and Clifford Lytle. The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Eastman, Carol M., and Elizabeth Edwards. Gyaehlingaay: Traditions, Tales and Images of the Kaigani Haida. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Edenso, Christine. The Transcribed Tapes of Christine Edenso. Anchorage, AK: University of Alaska Materials Development Center. (Now distributed by Sealaska Heritage Foundation.)c. 1983.

Enrico, John, and Wendy Stewart. Northern Haida Songs: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Boundaries and Passages, Rule and Ritual in Yup'ik Eskimo Oral Tradition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Fredson, John. John Fredson Edward Sapir Háa Googwandak: Stories Told by John Fredson to Edward Sapir. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1982.

Haycox, Stephen W., and Mary Childers Mangusso, eds. An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.

Kaplan, Lawrence D., ed. Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit: King Island Tales. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1991.

Kari, James, and Alan Boraas, eds. A Dena'ina Legacy K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1986.

Kawagley, A. Oscar. A Yupiaw Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1995.

Krauss, Michael E. Alaska Native Languages: Past, Present and Future. Alaska Native Language Center, 1980.

Krauss, Michael E., ed. In Honor of Eyak: The Art of Anna Nelson Harry. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1982.

Krauss, Michael E. Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska. (Map). Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1982.

Langdon, Steve. The Native People of Alaska. Third Edition. Anchorage, AK: Greatland Graphics, 1993.

Laughlin, William S. Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980.

Luke, Howard. My Own Trail. Ed. Jan Steinbright Jackson. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, 1998.

Mather, Elsie. Cauyarnariuq It Is Time for Drumming. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985.

McBeath, Gerald, A., and Thomas A. Morehouse. Alaska Politics and Government. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

McClanahan, A.J. Our Stories, Our Lives: A Collection of Twenty-Three Transcribed Interviews with Elders of the Cook Inlet Region. Anchorage, AK: The CIRI Foundation, 1986.

Meade, Marie, trans., and Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed. Agayuliyararput Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.

Mendenhall, Hannah, Ruth Sampson, and Edward Tennant. Uqaaqtuangich Inupiat: Lore of the Inupiat, the Elders Speak. Vol. 1. Kotzebue, AK: Northwest Arctic Borough School District, 1989.

Morrow, Phyllis, and William Schneider, eds. When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995.

Napoleon, Harold. Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being. Ed. Eric Madsen. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, 1996.

Nelson, Richard K. Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forrest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Orr, Eliza Cingarkaq, and Ben Orr. Qanemcikarluni Tekitnarqelartuq One Must Arrive With a Story to Tell. Fairbanks, AK: Lower Kuskokwim School District, Alaska Native Language Center, 1995.

Pete, Shem. Shem Pete's Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina. Compiled and edited by James Kari. Fairbanks, A: Alaska Native Language Center, 1987.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

Snigaroff, Cedor, and Knut Bergsland. Niigugis Makaxtazaqangis Atkan Historical Traditions. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1987.

Swann, Brian, ed. Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of the North America. New York: Random House, 1995.

TallMountain, Mary. The Light of the Tent Wall: A Bridging. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, UCLA, 1990.

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. (Civilization of the American Indian, Vol. 186.) Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Tennant, Edward A., and Joseph N. Bitar, eds. Yuut Qanemciit Yup'ik Lore: Oral Traditions of an Eskimo People. Bathel, AK: Lower Kuskokwim School District, 1981.

Wallis, Velma. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun: An Athabascan Indian Legend from Alaska. Fairbanks, AK: Epicenter Press, 1996.

Wilkinson, Charles F. American Indians, Time and the Law: Native Societies in a Modern Constitutional Democracy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.

Wilson, Shawn. Gwitch'in Native Elders: Not Just Knowledge But a Way of Looking at the World. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Knowledge Network, 1996.

Woodbury, Anthony C., ed. Cev'armiut Qanemciit Qulirait-llu: Eskimo Narratives and Tales from Chevak, Alaska. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, 1984.

 

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About the Cover:

“Shaman Flying” is a late prehistoric Inupiaq Eskimo artifact from Point Hope, Alaska. It is made of whale vertebra and the eyes are of walrus ivory.  Although many shaman flew, only the greatest flew to the moon where they communed with the spirits.     

Cover photo:  ©1986 Sam Kimura (courtesy of the Anchorage Museum and History and Art)

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