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...Gordon L. Pullar A Creole social group or estate, primarily the offspring of Russian men and Native women, was established in Alaska by the 1821 Russian-American Company charter. The Creoles enjoyed special rights and privileges in Russian America until the United States took over the jurisdiction...

...Philip A. Loring; S. Craig Gerlach For over a century, various forms of crop cultivation, including family, community, and school gardens were a component of the foodways of many Alaska Native communities. This paper describes the history of these cropping practices in Athabascan communities...

...Herbert D. G. Maschner American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Russian Sources on Aboriginal Alaska Herbert D. G. Maschner, Idaho State University Grewingk’s Geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America: Con- tributions toward Knowledge of the Orographic and Geognostic...

... of Christianity’s influence on culture, treating introduced religion as an external imposition that obscures the true object of inquiry. Opposing that approach in his history of two hundred years of Russian Orthodox pres- ence in Southeast Alaska, Sergei Kan asserts that Christianity is a force that must...

... Alaska few people are aware of it. Local oral histories tell of the war, and archaeological and historical sources provide complementary details. This article documents war events and techniques for war for one specific area: the Triangle in Yup'ik Alaska. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010...

...Alan Boraas; Aaron Leggett The almost one hundred years of Russian colonial occupation of Alaska resulted in the Russian-American Company's (RAC) controlling only a small territory with a small population and operating a generally unsuccessful economic enterprise. Contemporary Russian writers were...

...Sergei Kan Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Black Lydia T. 2004 Russians in Alaska, 1732–1867 . Fairbanks : University...

...Zachary R. Jones The Kake War of 1869 was a US Army altercation with the Tlingit Indians of southeast Alaska. In this conflict, the Army's gunship attacked three K ée x ' K wáan Tlingit civilian villages in midwinter, although no active Tlingit resistance was mounted. The Army's intention...

...Sergei Kan Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among...

.... Over a two-year period he chronicled daily interactions between the crew of his ship and members of a nearby Iñupiaq Eskimo village on the North Slope of Alaska. His categorizations of native aggression and gender differences are examined within the context of contemporary knowledge about Iñupiaq...

...-hundred-mile-wide strip bordering the Pacific, extending over fifteen hundred miles from the Copper River delta in Alaska to Cape Mendocino in California. This diverse area can be subdivided into the matrilineal north, the bilateral central portion, and the patrifocal south. Along the lower Columbia...

... and attitudes to “ethnic mixing.” This will enable us to return to the title question and to reverse it, that is, to focus on the factors that led to the emergence of Creole status in Alaska. We will argue that changing colonial policies of the Russian state need to be taken into account in order to understand...

.... 1975 Eskimo Kinsmen: Changing Family Relationships in Northwest Alaska . Monographs of the American Ethnological Society no. 59 . St. Paul, MN : West . 1976 The “Nunamiut” Concept and the Standardization of Error . In Contributions to Anthropology: The Interior Peoples of Northern Alaska...

... Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter . London : Ithaca . Axtell James 1987 The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands . William and Mary Quarterly 44 ( 2 ): 300 – 309 . Beardslee Lester A. 1882 Reports of … Relative to Affairs in Alaska and the Operations of the U.S.S...

...Robin Ridington American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 Giddings, James Louis, Jr. 1961 Kobuk River People . College: University of Alaska. Ray, Dorothy Jean 1975 The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 . Seattle: University of Washington Press. Ridington, Robin 1999 Dogs...

..., Robert W. Preucel, Chew Shaa (Elaine Abraham) and Daxootsu (Judith Ramos), Kan, Steve J. Langdon, and Stacey O. Espenlaub use engaged scholarship to shed light on the culture and history of Alaska’s Native peoples. In contrast, essays by Harold Jacobs and Mark Jacobs Jr., Nora Dauenhauer and Richard...

... on the ethnohistory of the Tlingit community of Sitka, Alaska, which I have been researching since 1979 using published sources, archival materials, and ethnographic data (Kan 1999 ). Sitka has been a unique Tlingit community because of its long history of interaction with the Russians, which began in the early...

... features an image from a music class at Carlisle.) As the book progresses, however, Parkhurst reveals the recently renamed Chemawa school’s unique characteristics: by 1920 one-third of the students hailed from Alaska; from 1925 to 1960 Alaska Natives could no longer enroll, with few exceptions...

... the Anglo historiography of Alaska and were hostile to creoles, seeing them as lazy and morally lax, thus repeat- ing the stereotypes of American settlers’ attitudes toward creoles.3 These works assumed that creoles were “half-­breeds” and defined by race. A new wave of scholarship on creoles began...

... of Upland Southeast Asia . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Preface Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming This issue of Ethnohistory brings together two sets of articles dealing with the anthropology and ethnohistory of Alaska and the Russian Far East. The first addresses Russian...