...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...

...Jeff Oliver Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804–1867 . By Vinkovetsky Ilya . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xiii + 272 pp., notes on terminology, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $49.95 cloth.) Copyright...

...Susan Smith-Peter This article argues that the creation of a creole estate in early nineteenth-century Russian America was motivated by cultural rather than racial concerns. Creoles were the offspring of Russian or indigenous men and native women. An analysis of the earliest known list of creoles...

...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...

...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...

...Peter P. Schweitzer; Evgeniy V. Golovko; Nikolai B. Vakhtin This article deals with “Old-Settler” communities in northeastern Siberia that were founded by Russian settlers in the course of the seventeenth century. Left to their own devices by a distant colonial administration, many of them married...

...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...

...Andie Diane Palmer By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xxxi + 665 pp., 26 illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth.) 2005 Book Reviews Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries...

... her art, and her, to the margins. DOI 10.1215/00141801-​2010-​010 Lev Shternberg: Anthropologist, Russian Socialist, Jewish Activist. By Sergei Kan. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xx + 488 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $65.00...

...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...

...Phyllis Whitman Hunter Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America . By Miller Gwenn A. . ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xxi + 216pp., preface, acknowledgements, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $55.00 hard cover). Copyright...

...Sonja Luehrmann The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867. By Andrei Val'terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 386 pp., preface, translators' introduction, maps, documentary appendix, glossary...

...Tatiana Argounova-Low This article investigates the concept of black food among the Lake Yessei Yakut in Siberia. With reference to two sources, archival records from the Russian Polar North Census of 1926–27 and contemporary fieldwork material, I investigate the local diet based on subsistence...

...Caroline Funk Yupiit living along the Bering Sea coast south of the mouth of the Yukon River regularly engaged in violent conflict with more northern riverine Yupiit prior to the 1840s AD arrival of Russian explorers and traders. The conflict is known as the Bow and Arrow War Days, and outside...

... 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...

...Michael E. Harkin Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 References Anderson Benedict 1991 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev. ed. London : Verso . Blumlo Daniel 2012 The Creoles of Russian America...

... ‘‘Christianization ‘‘Revitaliza- tion ‘‘Sovietization and ‘‘Regionalization’’ present ethnohistorical events covering the past four centuries. According to the author’s analysis, during the pre-Soviet era, the Khanty-Russian interaction...

...Andrei A. Znamenski The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. By Piers Vitebsky. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xv, 480 pp., illustrations, maps. $28.00 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book Reviews The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741...

... Indians in Russian America, 1741–1867. By Andrei Val’terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. (Lin- coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 386 pp., preface, translators’ introduction, maps, documentary appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth...

... 2007 Book Reviews The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741–1867. By Andrei Val’terovich Grinev. Translated by Richard L. Bland and Katerina G. Solovjova. (Lin- coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 386 pp., preface, translators’ introduction, maps, documentary appendix...