Jeane Breinig

 

Associate, Professor of English Department Jeane Breinig is a contributing editor to expanded edition of Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators. She is a Haida (Raven, Brown Bear, Taaslaanas Clan) originally from Kasaan village in Southeast Alaska. Breinig is one of only three Alaska Haida to earn a doctorate. She received her Ph.D. in English (American and Native Studies) from the University of Washington. Breinig is currently working on a book about Haida narrative and has published in American Indian Quarterly and Studies in American Indian Literatures. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

 

Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators

The Alaska Native stories in this outstanding anthology are the literary gambling sticks that win back a native spirit, consciousness, and sense of presence. There are giant storiers here who create a wise, bright, visionary sense of native survivance....These stories are traces of native reason and memories as the birch trees are traces of the catkin, and salmon are memories of the rivers. (Gerald Vizenor, from the Introduction). Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers & Orators is published by the Alaska Quarterly Review.