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Yupiit Yuraryarait: Yup’ik Ways of Dancing James H. Barker, Ann Fienup-Riordan, and Theresa Arevgaq Johnanthropology/photography • cloth $50.00 • 10.25 x 9.75, 272 pages, 150 halftones, dvd • isbn 978-1-60223-082-8

Giinaquq: Like a Face Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago

Sven D. Haakanson Jr. and Amy F. Steffian, eds.art/native studies • paperback $26.95 • 8.5 x 10.5, 272 pages, full color, maps, notes, index • isbn 978-1-60223-049-1

Khanty, People of the TaigaSurviving the Twentieth Century

Andrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva

Dr. Andrew Wiget is professor of English and director of the New Mexico Heritage Center at New Mexico State University. Dr. Olga Balalaeva is a folklorist and specialist in Finno-Ugric studies. She started working in Siberia in 1988 and was joined by Andrew Wiget in 1992.

Drawing on nearly twenty years of fieldwork, as well as ethnohistory, politics, and economics, this volume takes a close look at changes in the lives of the in-digenous Siberian Khanty people and draws crucial connections between those changes and the social, cultural, and political transformation that swept Russia during the transition to democracy. Delving deeply into the history of the Khanty—who were almost completely isolated prior to the Russian revolu-tion—the authors show how the customs, traditions, and knowledge of indigenous people interact with and are threatened by events in the larger world.

anthropology may • paperback $39.95 • 6 x 9, 327 pages, 100 b&w illustrations & maps • isbn 978-1-60223-124-5 e-book isbn 978-1-60223-125-2

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biographymarch • paperback $22.95 • 6 x 9, 200 pages, b&w photos and maps • isbn 978-1-60223-122-1 e-book isbn 978-1-60223-123-8

Ned Rozell is a science writer for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He has written for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News, Mushing magazine, Kenai Peninsula Clarion, and other venues.

Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompa-nies permafrost researcher and inveterate wanderer Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmachine through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa’s fascinating life, from his boy-hood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen into the ice near Barrow. It’s an always-on-the-move account of a man driven not just by the desire to fill in the blank spots on a map, but also to learn everything he can about them—and a ringing testament to the power of science, enthusiasm, and individual inspiration.

Finding MarsNed Rozell

The Changing Arctic LandscapeKen D. Tape

Photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of inexorable change.

science • cloth $35.00 • 11 x 9, 64 pages, 89 color and b&w photos • isbn 978-1-60223-080-4

Innocents in the Dry ValleysAn Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958–1959

Colin Bullscience • paperback $24.95 • 6 x 9, 267 pages, 81 color plates, 4 maps isbn 978-1-60223-071-2

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Julia Scully was editor of Modern Photography for twenty years and is the author or editor of several books.

memoirfebruary • paperback $15.95 • 5.25 x 8, 233 pages isbn 978-1-60223-129-0 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-131-3

Outside PassageA Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood

Julia Scully

A simple reminder of the immense power of a child’s love, which can last through terrible neglect.—Time

When Julia Scully was nine years old, her father com-mitted suicide, and she and her sister were remanded to an orphanage. Two years later, emotionally dam-aged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny town of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she ar-rived, but to her surprise, she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra, while she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops de-scended on the town at the outbreak of World War II. Outside Passage is a lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, simultaneously an emotional portrait of a young girl’s first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life.

A Woman in the Polar NightChristiane Ritter Introduction by Lawrence Millmannature • paperback $19.95 • 5.5 x 8.5, 224 pages isbn 978-1-60223-100-9

The Land BeyondA Memoir

Jack D. Ivesmemoir • paperback $29.95 • 228 pages • color plates, appendices, notes, references, index • isbn 978-1-60223-077-4

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The Rising and the Rain John Straleypoetry • paperback $19.95 • 6 x 9, 88 pages isbn 978-1-60223-033-0

For the Sake of the Light Tom Sextonpoetry • paperback $22.95 • 6 x 9, 208 pages isbn 978-1-60223-050-7 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-115-3

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese PoetsTom Sexton

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry—which has been a key influence on his work—into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. These tightly rhythmic, compact eight-line poems demonstrate a rare deft-ness with—and an even more uncommon ear for— language, revealing poetic form to be neither a puzzle nor an accomplishment in itself, but a compositional tool and a spur to creativity.Tom Sexton was Alaska’s poet

laureate from 1995 until 2000. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. poetry

february • paperback $14.95 • 6 x 9, 72 pages isbn 978-1-60223-119-1 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-120-7

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I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese Poets

Summer with snow still on the mountainsand only a few blossoms on the iris again.

My neighbor wonders why I tend to them yearafter year with scant success; to him it’s clear

I’ve failed. I think again of those ancient Chinese poetswho climbed for days to reach an alpine meadow

on the rumor of an iris as dark as the night,old men calling to each other like cranes in flight.

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Lucy’s DanceDeb Vanasse, illustrated by Nancy E. Slagle

A charming children’s book about the return of tra-ditional dancing to one Yup’ik village, Lucy’s Dance tells the story of a little girl who is determined to help her grandfather demonstrate for the people of the town the beauty and complexity of traditional Yup’ik dancing. Threaded through the story are accounts of Yup’ik arts such as drumming, singing, and storytell-ing through dance, all brought to life with beautiful, full-color illustrations. Also available in a Yup’ik language edition.

Deb Vanasse is the author of nine books. Nancy E. Slagle is an artist who lives in Denver.

children’s literaturemay • cloth $15.95 • 8.5 x 11, 32 pages isbn 978-1-60223-127-6 paperback $9.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-126-9

yup’ik edition: may • paperback $11.95 • 8.5 x 11, 32 pagesisbn 978-1-60223-128-3

The Little Fox Ram Papishchildren’s • cloth $15.95 • 8.5 x 11, 38 pages isbn 978-1-889963-87-7

The Little Seal Ram Papishchildren’s • cloth $15.95 • 8.5 x 11, 48 pages isbn 978-1-60223-068-2

GraniteSusan Butcher and David Monson Illustrated by Sarah Douglaschildren’s • paperback $9.95 • 11 x 8.5, 36 pages, 23 color illustrations • isbn 978-0-975402-90-0 cloth $18.95 • isbn 978-0-9754029-2-4

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The Kandik MapLinda Johnson

cartography • historyfebruary • paperback $19.95 • 6 x 9, 240 pages, 64 b& w photos, map • isbn 978-1-60223-042-2 cloth $34.95x • isbn 978-1-60223-032-3

When the Laughing StoppedThe Strange, Sad Death of  Will Rogers

John Evangelist Walsh

John Evangelist Walsh is the author of numerous biographies and of the definitive article on the legend of Babe Ruth’s “called shot.”

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed re-counting, John Walsh recalls the events of that day and the plane crash that ended it all. When the Laughing Stopped is a gripping and poignant retelling of the death of a beloved American legend, shining a human-izing light on a pivotal moment in American history.

literature • nonfictionfebruary • paperback $19.95 • 6 x 9, 198 pages, b&w photos and illustrations • isbn 978-1-60223-041-5 cloth $26.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-029-3

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Linda Johnson was director of library, archives, and records management at Yukon College. She lives in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.

In 1880, Athabaskan Indian Paul Kandik and French explorer Francois Mercier traveled across north-eastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. In this ground-breaking study with significant implications for Native American scholarship, Linda Johnson delves into the fascinating story behind the Kandik Map, drawing on historical letters, geographical analysis, and the origi-nal map itself.

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Empire’s EdgeAmerican Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898–1934

Preston Jones

Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent, a life both ordinary and extraordinary.

historyfebruary • paperback $17.95 • 6 x 9, 232 pages, 10 halftones isbn 978-1-60223-118-4 cloth $35.00 • isbn 978-1-60223-075-0 e-book 978-1-60223-102-3

history • paperback $19.95 • 6 x 9, 168 pages, b&w illustrations, map • isbn 978-1-889963-89-1

A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably pro-ductive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those were depleted in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity.

Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaska history or the romance of gold mining’s past.

Treadwell GoldAn Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin

Sheila Kelly

Sheila Kelly has been researching and writing about Treadwell for over two decades. She holds a master’s of public administration in natural resource policy from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs. She lives in Seattle overlooking Puget Sound where she watches the Alaska-bound cruise ships and wants to tell everyone aboard the fascinating story of Treadwell.

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Crooked PastThe History of a Frontier Mining Camp: Fairbanks, Alaska

Terrence Colehistory • paperback $12.95 • 5.25 x 8.25, 176 pages, b&w illustrations, index • isbn 978-0-912006-53-6

Old YukonTales, Trails, and Trials—Memoirs of Judge James Wickersham

James Wickersham; Edited and abridged by Terrence Colebiography, history • paperback $29.95 • 6 x 9, 352 pages, 104 b&w photos • isbn 978-1-60223-051-4 e-book isbn 978-1-60223-113-9

historynovember • cloth $30.00 • 6 x 9, 520 pages, 83 halftonesisbn 978-1-883309-06-0 • e-book isbn 978-1-883309-07-7

Fighting for the Forty-Ninth StarC. W. Snedden and the  Crusade for Alaska Statehood

Terrence Cole

When Alaskans in the 1950s demanded an end to the “second-class citizenship”of territorial status, southern powerbrokers on Capitol Hill were the primary obstacles. They feared a forty-ninth state would tip the balance of power against segregation, and therefore keeping Alaska out of the Union was simply another means of keeping black children out of white schools. C. W. “Bill” Snedden, the publisher of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, helped lead the battle for statehood. Working behind the scenes with his protégé, a young attorney named Ted Stevens, Snedden’s “magnificent obsession” would open the door to developing the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, inspire establishment of the Arctic Wildlife Range (now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and add the forty-ninth star to the flag.

Published by the University of Alaska Foundation Distributed by the University of Alaska Press

Terrence Cole is professor of history and director of the Office of Public History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Alaska Native EducationViews from Within

Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, eds.

Over the past century, the outside world has increasingly encroached on Alaska Native communities, and one of the consequences of that change has been a shift in the purpose and structure of schools in Alaska Native communities. Alaska Native Education brings together a variety of experts in the field of indigenous education to show the ways in which Alaska Natives have adopted and adapted outside ideas and rules regarding education—and how they have frequently found them problematic and insufficient. The authors follow their analysis with suggestions of ways forward.

Published by the Alaska Native Knowledge Network Distributed by the University of Alaska Press

Ray Barnhardt is professor of cross-cultural studies and director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley is associate professor of education in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

native studies • educationpaperback $20.00 • 6 x 9, 384 pages • isbn 978-1-87796243-1

Conflicting LandscapesAmerican Schooling/Alaska Natives

Clifton Bates and Michael J. Oleksa

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of education philosophies and their effect on Alaska Native students, details the situation of the many rural schools serving this population, and offers proposals for improvement.

Published by the Kuskokwim Corporation Distributed by the University of Alaska Press native studies • educationpaperback $19.95 • 6 x 9, 264 pages • isbn 978-1-57833-396-7

Clifton Bates has been involved in Alaska Native education for more than thirty years. Michael J. Oleksa is the author of several books, including Another Culture/Another World.

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Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research (DVD)Maya Salganek and Hajo Eicken

As much as one-tenth of the world’s oceans are covered with sea ice, or frozen ocean water, at some point during the annual cycle. Sea ice thus plays an important, often defining, role in the natural environment and the global climate system. Presented here as a multimedia DVD, Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research is a global look at the changes in sea ice and the tools and techniques used to measure and record those changes. The first comprehensive research done on sea-ice field techniques, this will be indis-pensable for the study of northern sea ice and a must-have for scientists in the field of climate change research.

Maya Salganek is assistant professor of theatre and film studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose work spans independent feature films, ethnographic documentaries, and educational films.

Hajo Eicken is a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. science

february • dvd $10.00 • isbn 978-0-61537096-5

Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research (book)Hajo Eicken, Rolf Gradinger, Maya Salganek, Kunio Shirasawa, Don Perovich, and Matti Leppäranta, eds.

This book is a global look at the changes in sea ice and the tools and techniques used to measure and record those changes. (Book includes DVD listed above.)

science • cloth $65.00 • 7 x 10, 592 pages, 218 graphs and figures, bibliography, index; includes dvd • isbn 978-1-60223-059-0

On Sea IceW. F. Weeks

With this book, geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a natural history of sea ice, a fully comprehensive and up-to-date account of our knowledge of its creation, change, and function. Weeks is a geophysicist with long-term interests in the ice covers of the polar oceans. He has authored over 300 technical papers on various aspects of the polar regions and has contributed to several monographs on sea ice.

science • cloth $85.00 • 7 x 10, 680 pages, 354 graphs and figures, bibliography, index isbn 978-1-60223-079-8 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-101-6

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sea ice plays a critical role in the global climate system and has a strong impact on ecosystems and human activities in the polar regions. With the recent urgency surrounding socioeconomic, geopolitical, and climate change in the North, the scientific community has called for an authoritative handbook on sea ice research techniques. This is just such a volume: thorough, thoughtfully organized, and collaborative, drawing on a variety of international sea ice experts to create a comprehensive resource on data collection methods.

The editors include:Hajo Eicken, professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks;Rolf Gradinger, associate professor of marine biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks;Maya Salganek, assistant professor of film and theater at the University of Alaska Fairbanks;Kunio Shirasawa, professor of oceanography at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan;Don Perovich, research geophysicist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

in Hanover, New Hampshire; andMatti Leppäranta, professor of geophysics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

 The first of its kind, Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research serves as both an introduction and foundation, indispensable for students and practicing scientists alike. Beginners will appreciate the textbook-like format and practical tips on proper gear, equipment, and etiquette in the field, while seasoned researchers will be challenged to consider the wide range of methodologies and approaches presented. The accompanying DVD illuminates and expands on the text, allowing for a more sensory experience of the information in the book. The DVD gives an inside look at the world of sea ice research, discusses the concept of sea ice as a social-ecological system, includes extensive footage of the techniques described in the book, explores Native knowledge of sea ice with the voices of Iñupiat Eskimo elders and ice experts, tells the story of sea ice use and research over time, and includes helpful animations illustrating key sea ice processes. 

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Cover illustration Camden Bay, Beaufort Sea, by David Mollett, © 1990Cover design by David Alcorn

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Field Guide to Common Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of AlaskaSusan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson

This fully illustrated book is a comprehensive field guide to more than four hundred marine species found in Alaska waters. Its primary geographic range is the Bering Sea, central Aleutian Islands, and the western and central Gulf of Alaska, but it also includes waters north of Norton Sound and those of southeastern Alaska. Designed for use in the field—as its waterproof binding and paper attest—it will be indispensable for fishermen, teachers, and conser-vation officials.

science • paperback $35.00 • 360 pages • isbn 978-1-56612-149-1

Field Guide to Squids and Octopods of the Eastern North Pacific and Bering SeaElaina M. Jorgensen

This handy, fully illustrated guide is designed to help researchers and scientists identify squids and octopods found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, regions that have been difficult to sample because of their rough seas—and thus have been poorly known until now. Printed on waterproof paper, the book describes and illustrates forty-four species, with full scientific details and aids to identification.

science • wire-o-binding $25.00 • 100 pages isbn 978-1-56612-139-2

Elaina M. Jorgensen is a fisheries scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Science Center.

Susan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson have studied Alaska wildlife for several decades.

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Common Interior Alaska CryptogamsFungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and LiverwortsGary A. Laursen and Rodney D. SeppeltWith its detailed illustrations, photos, and glossary, this comprehensive field guide to interior Alaska cryptogams is useful to lay and professional investigators alike.nature • paperback $26.25 • 6 x 9, 240 pages, 354 color photos isbn 978-1-60223-058-3 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-109-2

Alaska Trees and Shrubs Second Edition

Leslie A. Viereck and Elbert J. Little, Jr.Alaska Trees and Shrubs is the definitive work on the woody plants of Alaska. This new, completely revised edition provides updated information on habitat and taxonomy, as well as detailed descriptions of every tree and shrub species in the state. Distribution maps reflect the latest survey data, also the keys, glossary, and appendix on non-native plants.botany, nature • paperback $24.95 • 6 x 9, 372 pages, b&w and color illustrations, maps, fold-out map • isbn 978-1-889963-86-0 e-book isbn 978-1-60223-132-0

Plants That We EatNauriat NiġiñaqtuatAnore JonesThe classic guide to edible plant life of northwestern Alaska. Drawing on knowledge that has kept the Iñupiat people healthy for centuries, each plant is fully illustrated, care-fully described, and enlivened by recipes and stories from Iñupiaq cooks.nature • paperback $24.95 • 7 x 10, 270 pages, 370 images isbn 978-1-60223-074-3

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Alaska Native ArtTradition, Innovation, Continuity

Susan W. Fair

This landmark volume examines the rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives and examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twen-tieth century. Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from a range of artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published.

paperback $32.95 • 8.5 x 10.5, 312 pages, full color, maps isbn 978-1-889963-82-2

Once Upon an Eskimo TimeEdna Wilder

Edna Wilder retells a year in her Eskimo mother’s life. Wilder’s mother, Minnie Nedercook, grew up in the village of Rocky Point and didn’t see a white man until she was in her early teens. Wilder eloquently captures the oral storytelling traditions of her people and employs descriptions of the weather and harsh climates of Alaska’s Norton Sound in a narrative that captures a now-vanished lifestyle.

paperback $17.95 • 6 x 9, 200 pages • isbn 978-1-60223-056-9 e-book isbn 978-1-60223-114-6

The Eskimo Girl and the EnglishmanEdna Wilder

The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie en-counters her first white man, The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates Minnie’s early twentieth-century village life as she and her Englishman marry and find determination, strength, and courage in the face of trag-edy, rapidly changing technology, and unrelenting hardship.

paperback $16.95 • 6 x 9, 163 pages, b&w photos • isbn 978-1-60223-015-6 cloth $26.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-016-3

Secrets of Eskimo Skin SewingEdna Wilder

This book is packed with clear, easy-to-understand instructions, draw-ings, and photographs for readers of any skill level to turn natural or man-made furs and hides into handsome, useful garments. Author Edna Wilder takes would-be skin sewers through the step-by-step work to construct traditional items of clothing such as mukluks, parkas, and mit-tens, as well as for belts, baby booties, a trapper-style fur cap, and toys.

paperback $12.95 • 5.25 x 8.25, 144 pages, b&w and color photos isbn 978-1-889963-12-9

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The Thousand-Mile WarWorld War II in Alaska and the AleutiansBrian Garfield

The Thousand-Mile War has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Author Brian Garfield has published about seventy books that have sold some 20 million copies and have been made into eighteen films, including Death Sentence.history • paperback $24.95 • 6 x 9, 480 pages, b&w photos, map isbn 978-0-912006-83-3 • e-book isbn 978-1-60223-117-7

Alaska at War, 1941–1945The Forgotten War RememberedFern Chandonnet, ed.

Only one U.S. territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska in World War II. Alaska at War includes wide-ranging essays covering the Japanese invasion of the islands of Attu and Kiska, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, the role of minorities in the northern conflict, and the American campaign to recover the occupied Aleutians. Contributions also address the effects of the war on film, race relations, and the construction of the Alaska Highway.

history • paperback $29.95 • 8.5 x 11, 474 pages, b&w photos, bibliography, index • isbn 978-1-60223-013-2

Alaska’s Hidden WarsSecret Campaigns on the North Pacific RimOtis Hays, Jr.

Tells the story of the war in the North Pacific, a story of savage weather, isolation, and sacrifice. Two island chains, the Aleutians and the Kuriles, became the focus of a series of major campaigns that pitted the Americans against the Japanese. Alaska’s Hidden Wars chronicles the role of Japanese-American intelligence specialists and reveals a Japanese eyewitness account of the defense of Attu. It is a fast-moving history that brings declassified archival sources to light and draws the reader into the lonely, bitter war fought in the North Pacific.

history • cloth $39.95 • 6 x 9, 200 pages, b&w photos, map, bibliography, index • isbn 978-1-889963-63-1 • paperback $19.95 • isbn 978-1-889963-64-8

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Dena’ina Sukdu’aTraditional Stories of the Tanaina Athabaskans

Compiled by Joan M. Tenenbaum

These traditional tales recorded by Dena’ina Athabaskan storytellers are in Dena’ina with English translations. An accompanying audio CD includes six of the stories from the original recordings. Includes twelve original works by renowned Alaska artist Dale DeArmond.

folklore • paperback $44.00 • 6 x 9, 288 pages, cd, 12 color illustrations • isbn 978-1-55500-090-5

YuuyaraqThe Way of the Human Being

Harold Napoleon with Eric Madsen

Yuuyaraq discusses the effects of the 1770s–1940s epidemics on Alaska Native people: countless deaths, loss of culture bearers, and psychological scars.

anthropology, history • paperback $5.95 • 5.5 x 8.5, 76 pages, b&w illustrations, map • isbn 978-1-877962-21-9

The Gospel According to Peter JohnPeter John, ed. by David J. Krupa

Chief/Dr. Peter John, traditional chief of Minto, was the rarest of individuals who was able to see beyond his own cultural upbringing and come to understand the human condition at a level that transcends conventional wisdom.

biography • paperback $11.95 • 6 x 9, 96 pages • isbn 978-1-877962-33-2

ShandaaIn My Lifetime

Belle Herbert, ed. by Bill Pfisterer

Belle Herbert was a Gwich’in Athabaskan woman who was between 105 and 127 years old in 1979, when the Alaska Humanities Forum provided money to do a series of recordings of her telling her life story. The ac-counts in this book were transcribed from those recordings.

biography • paperback $14.95 • 8.5 x 11, 208 pages, b&w illustrations • isbn 978-1-55500-108-7

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

The year 2010 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Conservationists Olaus and Margaret Murie led the campaign to establish the nation’s first ecosystem-scale conservation area, unprecedented in size and in the range of values it protects, and on December 6, 1960, the Arctic Refuge was established for the purpose of “preserving unique wildlife, wilderness and recreational val-ues.” The University of Alaska Press has published several books relating to the refuge and to arctic wilder-ness and conservation issues.

Arctic SanctuaryImages of the Arctic National Wildlife RefugeJeff Jones and Laurie Hoylephotography • cloth $55.00 • 14 x 9 • 184 pages, 156 color plates • isbn 978-1-60223-088-0

Last Great WildernessThe Campaign to Establish the  Arctic National Wildlife RefugeRoger Kayehistory • cloth $29.95 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages, maps, bibliography, index • isbn 978-1-889963-83-9

The Changing Arctic LandscapeKen D. Tapenature photography and climate change • cloth $35.00 • 11 x 9 • 132 pages, 41 color plates isbn 978-1-60223-080-4

Letters from AlaskaJohn Muir, edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrellnature • paperback $16.95 • 6 x 9 • 146 pages isbn 978-1-60223-055-2

The Dene-Yeniseian Connection Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska

The Dene-Yeniseian Connection is a special issue of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska and represents the unveiling of a far-reaching historical lin-guistic hypothesis. The lead article by Dr. Edward J. Vajda presents extensive evidence for Dene-Yeniseian, an ancient connection between Ket, the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family of Central Siberia, and the North-American family of Na-Dene. Accompanying Vajda’s paper is primary data on Na-Dene historical phonology by Jeff Leer, along with critiques by several linguistic special-ists and articles on a range of topics (archaeology, prehis-tory, ethnogeography, genetics, kinship, folklore).

If accepted by the broader academic community, Dene-Yeniseian would be the first substantiation of a language stock between Asia and North America. Dene-Yeniseian would represent the farthest geographic distance for a pedestrian hunter-gatherer language stock. The volume is a joint publication of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Anthropology and the Alaska Native Language Center and is co-edited by Prof. James Kari (lin-guist) and Prof. Ben Potter (archaeologist), both of UAF.

There is no question that Vajda’s substantive linguistic pa-per, together with the supplementary chapters in this collec-tion, constitutes a most significant breakthrough in terms of certain New World–Old World relationships.

—Don Dumond (University of Oregon)

APUA issues can be ordered from the Department of Anthropology, UAF: fyanth@uaf.edu, 907-474-7288 (phone), 907-474-7453 (fax). APUA website: http://www.uaf.edu/ anthro/apua/. Price is $40 + shipping for individuals and $100 + shipping for institutions.

Historical linguistics has scored a major triumph by demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt the exis-tence of Dene- Yeniseian, a language family with ap-proximately the time depth of Indo-European. —Victor Golla, Humboldt State University

. . . provides the strongest evidence to date for a con-nection between the [Na-Dene] of North America and the Yeniseian language family of Siberia.—Keren Rice, University of Toronto

This one volume of papers covers a broader range of comparisons and proposed reconstructions of the DY stock to a higher degree than one will find from the review of the accessible current literatures on any other language family or stock of comparable diver-gence. . . . Dene-Yeniseian will change the world.—Eric Hamp, University of Chicago

Other University of Alaska Publications

Tidal EchoesUniversity of Alaska Southeast Literary and Arts Journal, 2010

Tidal Echoes is Southeast Alaska’s regional art and liter-ary journal. This journal showcases creative work from those living full-time in Southeast Alaska. The journal is published by the University of Alaska Southeast and Capital City Weekly. It is edited and published by UAS students who are assisted by an editorial board of faculty and community members. Each year a featured artist and writer are chosen. Past writers have included John Straley, Ernestine Hayes, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Nick Jans. Past artists have included Jane Terzis, Ray Troll, Nathan Jackson, and David Woodie.

To order contact:University of Alaska SoutheastAttn. Virginia Berg11120 Glacier HighwayJuneau, AK 99801email: virginia.berg@uas.alaska.eduphone: 907-796-6405

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PermafrostA literary journal published by the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal in the world and is published annually by the graduate students in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of English. Permafrost accepts unsolicited fiction, nonfiction, poetry, in-terviews, drama, and art annual from September 1 to March 15. See the website at www.alaska.edu/english/ permafrost for more information, or e-mail fbpfrost@uaf.edu.

Subscription rates are $9 per year, $16 for two years, and $22 for three years. Make checks payable to Permafrost and mail to the UAF Department of English, PO Box 755720, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5720.

Two Must Have a Mind of Winter

Wrathful winter, and the snow begging usHold cold to cold your fluorescent bodies.I dream of tall grass scissoring in our earsBut receive only this sputtering oil heater.Our ragged comforter is our only comfort,And still our stupid toes keep peeking out.Halving frostbitten veggies, my wife says:‘Carrots remind me of the medieval ages.’I laugh till a bird of mist hovers in the air.‘Witch’s finger, crow’s beak, lizard’s tail.’Spider’s web curtained high in one corner,Frozen, fragile. ‘One hell of a snowflake.’Like ones condemned must we make love:Beanies for to hide our too beautiful faces.

—Jaydn DeWald from Permafrost vol. 32

Alaska at 50Greg Kimura, ed.$24.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-108-5

Alaska Native Cultures and IssuesLibby Roderick, ed.$12.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-092-7

Alaska Trees and ShrubsLeslie Viereck and Elbert Little$24.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-132-0

Apun: The Arctic SnowMatthew Sturm$12.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-112-2

Apun: A Teacher’s GuideMatthew Sturm$19.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-111-5

Bear WranglerWill Troyer$19.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-121-4

Before the StormFredricka Martin with Raymond Hudson$39.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-103-0

Bong HiTs 4 JesusJames C. Foster$29.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-090-3

Changing Paths Bill Sherwonit$21.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-106-1

City for EmpirePreston Jones$26.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-085-9

Cold FlashesMichael Engelhard, ed.$21.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-094-1

Common Interior Alaska CryptogamsGary A. Laursen and Rodney D. Seppelt$26.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-109-2

Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research Hajo Eicken, ed.$65.00 • isbn 978-1-60223-107-8

Fighting for the Forty-Ninth StarTerrence Cole$30.00 • isbn 978-1-88330-907-7

Finding MarsNed Rozell$22.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-123-8

For the Sake of the LightTom Sexton$22.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-115-3

Globalization of the Circumpolar NorthLassi Heininen and Chris Southcott, eds.$24.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-104-7

I Think Again of Those Ancient Chinese PoetsTom Sexton$14.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-120-7

Ice Floe New and SelectedShannon Gramse and Sarah Kirk, eds.$20.00 • isbn 978-1-60223-095-8

Khanty, People of the TaigaAndrew Wiget and Olga Balalaeva$39.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-125-2

The Land BeyondJack D. Ives$14.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-105-4

Natalia ShelikhovaDawn Lea Black and Alexander Yu. Petrov, eds. and trans.$29.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-066-8

Old YukonJames Wickersham and Terrence Cole$29.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-113-9

On Sea IceW. F. Weeks$85.00 • isbn 978-1-60223-101-6

Once Upon an Eskimo TimeEdna Wilder$17.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-114-6

Outside PassageJulia Scully$15.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-131-3

A Place of Belonging Phyllis Demuth Movius$17.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-110-8

The Thousand-Mile WarBrian Garfield$24.95 • isbn 978-1-60223-117-7

Treadwell GoldSheila Kelly$35.00 • isbn 978-1-60223-102-3

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