2015 Native American book catalog

2015 Native American Catalog University of Alaska Press and

Epicenter Press

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This joint catalog aims to give academia, secondary schools and colleges, libraries, museums, nonprofit organizations, and tribal associations and corporations access to books we find to be particularly important in Native American studies.

You will find enclosed an order form for University of Alaska Press titles, and an order form for Epicenter Press titles. If you wish to place an order and require books from both presses, you will need to use both order forms.

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University of Alaska Press Launched in 1967, the University of Alaska Press is a nonprofit scholarly publisher and distributor of books about Alaska and the circumpolar regions. Although physically located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, the Press represents the entire University of Alaska–its three main universities (UAA, UAF, and UAS) as well as their satellite campuses–and by extension the entire state of Alaska. Its titles are distributed by the University of Chicago Press. UA Press publications cover an expanding range of subject areas, including politics and history, Native languages and cultures, science and natural history, biography and memoir, poetry, fiction and anthologies, and original translations.

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Epicenter Press Since its founding in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1988, Epicenter Press has become the largest trade publisher of books about Alaska. Titles showcase Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and touch on art, aviation, history, humor, memoir, Native American studies, paranormal, sled dog racing, true crime, and memoir.

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Contents University of Alaska Press Titles ............................................................................................. 2 University of Alaska Press Order Form .................................................................................... 8 Epicenter Press Titles ............................................................................................................ 10 Epicenter Press Order Form ................................................................................................... 15 www.alaska.edu/uapress

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University of Alaska Press Titles Once Upon an Eskimo Time Edna Wilder Biography 9781602230569 6x9 - 197 pages, 19 line drawings Paperback $17.95 In Once Upon an Eskimo Time, 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 to illustrate the hardiness of her mother's spirit. Family values, subsistence living, and the cycles of life form a narrative that captures the now-vanished lifestyle along the Bering Sea. “Readers of whatever age will enjoy Nedercook’s delightful account of the day-to-day, legends, and beliefs of the ancient Eskimo village of Rocky Point.” --Ames Tribune

The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman Edna Wilder Biography 9781602230156 6x9 - 170 pages Paperback $16.95

The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman is a sequel to the delightful story Once Upon an Eskimo Time which recounts the remarkable life of Minnie and her Eskimo mother as she comes of age in a traditional village on Alaska's western coast. Resuming the tale on the day Minnie encounters her first white man,The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman relates the next century of Minnie's adventurous life--painting a picture of early twentieth-century village life as Minnie and her Englishman marry and find the determination, strength, and courage to live life in the face of tragedy, rapidly-changing technology, and unrelenting hardship along the Bering Sea. Accompanied by photographs of early Eskimo village life, the narrative poignantly captures a sense of a now-vanished lifestyle on the Seward Peninsula.

About the Author Edna Wilder was born in Bluff, Alaska, at that time a small mining community just northwest of Rocky Point, where this story takes place. She is the daughter of the late Minnie Nedercook and Arthur Samuel Tucker.

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The Cormorant Hunter's Wife Joan Kane Poetry 9781602231573 6x9 - 76 pages Paperback $14.95 This collection of poetry is inspired by the author’s lineage as an Iñupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. The poems’ syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural conditions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic that have been home to her ancestors for tens of thousands of years, while the poems’ speakers refer to an indigenous identity that has become increasingly plural. The author’s perspective as a Native person affords her unique insight into the relationship with place and self, which she applies in her consideration of the arctic landscape and to questions of adaptation and resilience.

About the Author Joan Kane is a poet who lives in Anchorage.

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Nick Golodoff Memoir 9781602232495 6x9 - 180 pages, 55 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts Paperback $22.95 In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corralling all survivors into a freighter bound for Japan. One of those survivors, Nick Golodoff, became a prisoner of war at just six years old. He was among the dozens of Unangan Attu residents swept away to Hokkaido, and one of only twenty- five to survive. Attu Boy tells Golodoff’s story of these harrowing years as he found both friendship and cruelty at the hands of the Japanese. It also tells of Golodoff’s bittersweet return to a homeland torn apart by occupation and forced internments. Interwoven with other voices from Attu, this richly illustrated memoir is a testament to the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of lives disrupted by war.

About the Author Except for his imprisonment in Japan, Nick Golodoff (1935–2013) lived his life in the Aleutian Islands.

Rachel Mason is a cultural anthropologist for the National Park Service in Anchorage, Alaska.

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Picture Man The Legacy of Southeast Alaska Photographer Shoki Kayamori

Margaret Thomas

Biography 9781602232457 7x10 - 180 pages, 70 photos, 2 maps Paperback $26.95 In 1912, Shoki Kayamori and his box camera arrived in a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska. At a time when Asian immigrants were forbidden to own property and faced intense racial pressure, the Japanese-born Kayamori put down roots and became part of the Yakutat community. For three decades he photographed daily life in the village, turning his lens on locals and migrants alike, and gaining the nickname “Picture Man.� But as World War II drew near, his passion for photography turned dangerous as government officials called out Kayamori as a potential spy. Despondent, Kayamori committed suicide, leaving behind an enigmatic photographic legacy. Part history, part biography, part photographic showcase, Picture Man offers a fascinating new view of Alaska history.

About the Author Margaret Thomas is a librarian and journalism instructor at South Puget Sound Community College. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

Before the Storm A Year in the Pribilog Islands, 1941-1942

Fredricka Martin & Ray Hudson (ed.)

Memoir

9781602230767 7x10 - 385 pages, 30 b&w photos Paperback $39.95 From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredricka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and this book draws from her personal accounts of that year and her research to present a fascinating portrait of a time and a people facing radical change. A government ordered evacuation of all Aleuts from the island in the face of World War II, which Martin recounts in her journal, proved but the first step in a long struggle by Native peoples to gain independence, and, as editor Raymond Hudson explains, Martin came to play a significant role.

About the Editor Ray Hudson lived in the Aleutian Islands from 1964 to 1992, and there his heart remains even though he now lives in Middlebury, Vermont, with his wife Shelly. His memoir, Moments Rightly Placed, was published by Epicenter Press (see page 14).

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Island Between Margaret E. Murie

Native American Studies 9781602230354 6x9 - 238 pages, line drawings by Olaus Murie Paperback $21.95

Island Between starts with a picture of pure Eskimo life untouched by any other civilization and moves to the changes that occur as contact with other peoples intensifies.

A Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

Peter Metcalfe

History 9781602232396 6x9 - 150 pages, 40 b&w photos Paperback $24.95

A Dangerous Idea tells an overlooked but powerful story of Alaska Natives fighting for their rights under American law and details one of the rare successes for Native Americans in their nearly two-hundred-year effort to define and protect their rights.

Alaska Native Art Tradition, Innovation, Continuity

Susan W. Fair

Native American Studies 9781889963822 8.5x10.5 - 312 pages, 220 color plates, 85 halftones, 2 color maps Paperback $32.95 The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples. www.alaska.edu/uapress

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Mary's Wild Winter Feast Hannah Lindoff Nobu Koch (ill.)

Clarissa Rizal (ill.)

Childrens 9781602232327 7x10 - 40 pages, illustrated in color throughout Paperback $14.95 When winter rain washes away Mary’s chances for a sledding day, she thinks there is no hope for excitement. But with a little imagination and a brimming pantry, she soon finds herself caught up in a colorful journey. Together with her father she relives five Alaska adventures, each uniquely inspired by a jar in her pantry. From salmon to blueberries, each lively tale introduces young readers to Mary’s homeland and invites them to learn about how different places can produce different foods.

Featuring brilliant collages from artists Nobu Koch and Clarissa Rizal, Mary’s Wild Winter Feast is a celebration of food, family, and finding fun in unexpected places.

About the Author A lifelong Alaskan, Hannah Lindoff is a strategic advisor for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. A member of the Tlingit Raven T'ak Dein Taan Clan, she lives with her family in Juneau, Alaska, and in the small village of Hoonah.

About the Illustrators Nobu Koch was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska. This is her first children's book. Clarissa Rizal (collages) was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, and is a member of the T'ak Dein Taan (Black-legged Kittiwake) Clan.

Kayak Girl Monica Devine & Mindy Dwyer (ill.)

Childrens 9781602231887 10x8.5 - 32 pages, color watercolor illustrations Paperback $12.95

In Kayak Girl a young child learns to cope with serious loss by focusing on something larger than herself.

After Jana’s mother dies, she becomes withdrawn. Her grandfather, a carver, pays the girl a visit and finds her unresponsive to his care. He carves a figure of a girl in a kayak and asks Jana to promise that she will watch for the figure after he releases it upriver. Through the following seasons, Jana goes to the river daily and finds strength in the positive memories from her short time with her mother, even as she imagines the distant kayak girl’s struggles. Eventually, they are reunited, and Jana’s spirit is revived. Throughout the book, watercolor illustrations take readers to a magical place along an Alaska river and demonstrate the power of memory and a sense of place in the natural world.

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Tales of Ticasuk Eskimo Legends and Stories

Emily Ivanoff Brown (Ticasuk)

Native American Studies

9780912006451 6x9 - 134 pages, illustrations Paperback $10.95 Brown collected these legends of the Eskimos of the shores of the Bering Sea coast and contributed her own touches and tales, as storytellers have always done. Her stories are a window into another time, offering a special view of the thousands of years of her ancestors' culture.

The Eskimo Storyteller Folktales from Noatak, Alaska

Edwin S. Hall Jr.

Native American Studies 9781889963020 6x9 - 491 pages, illustrations Paperback $26.95 Now a classic in northern literature, The Eskimo Storyteller brings to life the words of Eskimo elders for a new generation of readers. This collection of folktales from northwest Alaska includes stories populated by amazing creatures, hard-bitten hunters, and strong-minded women.

The Longest Story Ever Told Qayak the Magical Man

Emily Ivanoff Brown (Ticasuk)

Native American Studies

9781602230460 6x9 - 90 pages, b&w photos and illustrations Paperback $19.95 Eskimo elders consider Qayaq to be the oldest of legends in Inupiaq folklore.

The son of shamanic parents, Qayaq was born to the task of discovering his brothers' killer and avenging their deaths. He travels widely on this quest and, imbued with magical powers, he takes animal form while battling the many destructive characters that populate his world. www.alaska.edu/uapress

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Epicenter Press Titles Dreaming Bears A Gwich'in Indian Storyteller, a Southern Doctor, a Wild Corner of Alaska

J. Michael Holloway Memoir 9781935347309 6x9 - 208 pages, 28 color photos Paperback $17.95

Dreaming Bears is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student with deep roots in the South and an elderly Indian couple in the wilds of northeast Alaska. In 1961, Mike Holloway, his brother Ted, and a college friend set out from South Carolina to spend the summer hiking in Arctic Alaska, intending to live off the land. They end up in the homeland of the Gwich'in-- the northernmost Indians in North America. The young men charter a small plan into the isolated village of Venetie, where the tribal chief directs them to the remote cabins of Johnny and Sarah Frank. The elderly Gwich'in couple lived a thirty-five-mile walk from the village and more than a hundred air miles from the closest road.

His rich encounters in Gwich'in country deepen Mike's love of wild land and his respect for those who depend upon it for their survival. Mike becomes the adopted grandson of Johnny and Sarah, returning to Alaska as a doctor and advocate for the land and its people.

Cold River Spirits

Whispers from a Family's Forgotten Past

Jan Harper-Haines Native American Studies 9781935347156 5.5x8.5 - 192 pages, b&w photos Paperback $14.95 A wryly humorous and inspirational story about a proud Alaska Native family struggling to survive in two worlds. Sam and Louise Harper and their ten children make a soul-grinding transition into a modern white-dominated society where they face bigotry, poverty, and illness. Yet, Louise, the Athabascan matriarch, remains in touch with centuries-old traditions of healing, honoring nature's spirits, and a belief that the spirits of all Athabascans one day will return to the waters of the Yukon River.

About the Author Born in Sitka, Alaska, of Koyukon Athabascan and French-Dutch descent, Jan Harper-Haines began gathering stories about her Athabascan mother and grandmother in 1990. The author earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alaska, where her mother, Flora Jane Harper, was the first Native graduate in 1935. She lives in the San Francisco area.

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Two Old Women An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

Velma Wallis Native American Studies 9780972494496 5x7 - 145 pages, line drawings Hardback $17.95 Based on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story--with a surprise ending--of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe that faces starvation brought on by unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game. The story of survival is told with suspense by Velma Wallis, whose subject matter challenges the taboos of her past. Yet, her themes are modern--empowerment of women, the graying of America, Native American ways.

Twenty years after its first publication, Two Old Women continues to be a publishing phenomenon, despite scant national publicity. This word-of-mouth book has been translated into seventeen languages, selling more than 1.5 million copies. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author, new afterword by the editor, and a discussion guide for book-group readers.

Bird Girl and the Man who Followed the Sun An Athabaskan Indian Legend from Alaska

Velma Wallis Native American Studies 9780945397342 5.5x7.5 - 224 pages, line drawings Hardback $17.95 Velma Wallis, author of the award-winning Two Old Womeni, brings forth another epic story from the ancient legends of her people, the Athabaskans of Alaska. In a cold, hard country where the sun disappears for much of the long winter, Indians and Eskimos struggle against nature and on another to survive.

Against this stark landscape, Wallis skillfully itnerweaves the stories of two rebels. Bird Girl, an independent young Indian woman, defies her family's expectations by refusing to become a traditional wife and mother.

Instead she chooses to brave life on her own as a hunter, risking starvation, isolation, and attacks by her people's enemies, the Eskimos. Along the way she meets Daagoo, a restless young dreamer who leaves behind his homeland to journey south in search of the legendary Land of the Sun. Readers will be captivated by this profound myth about two young people who wander far from their culture's deeply held traditions and eventually must find a way to come home again. www.alaska.edu/uapress

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Raising Ourselves A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

Velma Wallis Memoir 9780972494472 6x9 - 212 pages, b&w photos Paperback $16.95 Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Life is defined by the business of living off the land. Chopping wood. Hauling water from the river.

Hunting moose. Catching salmon. Trapping fur. Taking care of the dogs. For a thousand years, the Gwich'in clan had followed migratory animals across the north. But two generations before, the people had settled where the Porcupine River flows into the Yukon.

Now, the Wallis family has a post office box and an account at the general store, and Velma listens to Wolf Man Jack on armed forces radio. The author discovers that her people have surrendered their language, traditional values, and religion to white teachers, traders, and missionaries. Flu epidemics have claimed many loved ones. Village elders seem like strangers from another land, and in a way they are. There is much drinking when the monthly government checks come, and that is when the pain comes out of hiding.

Raising Ourselves is a gritty, sobering, yet irresistible story filled with laughter even as generations of Gwich'in grief seeps from past to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge.

Excerpt from Raising Ourselves Early one morning I happened to awaken as my father quietly got ready to check his fish wheel. “If you hurry up, you can ride with me,� he said, and I sprang out of bed as stealthily as possible.

This was a treat I did not want to share with my sleeping siblings.

Together my father and I walked the short distance to the Yukon River, where we climbed into his eighteen-foot wooden boat powered by a twenty-five-horsepower Evinrude. I sat still as he pulled on the starter rope. I did not want to shatter this magic moment. At age six, with thirteen siblings, it was not every day that I had a few precious moments alone with my father. This time was to be savored.

The riverboat buzzed smoothly down the big river. The green riverbanks were fragrant and colorfully alive with the deep purple of arctic lupine, red fireweed, yellow dandelions, and pink rose-hips.

The sky was in its deepest blue, and the river reflected the earth within its smooth surface.

The boat slowly pulled up to the fish-wheel. The two big scoops, lined with chicken wire, dripped with underwater growth as they turned. Flies already had begun to work on the huge glistening salmon, their unseeing eyes staring upward.

About the Author Velma Wallis was born in Fort Yukon, a remote village of about 650 people in Interior Alaska, near where the Porcupine River flows into the Yukon. Wallis was raised in a tradtional Athabaskan family, one of thirteen children. When she was thirteen, her father died and she left school to help her mother raise her younger brothers and sisters. Later, she passed her high school equivalency exam and moved to a trapping cabin twelve miles from the village, where she learned to live off the land by hunting, fishing, and trapping.

Wallis based her first two books, Two Old Women and Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun, on the Athabaskan stories her mother told her when she was growing up.

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Tlingit Indians Observations of an Indigenous People of Southeast Alaska 1881-1882

Aurel Krause & Erna Gunther (Ed.) Native American Studies 9781935347255 6x9 - 306 pages, line drawings Paperback $19.95 In 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native population in southeast Alaska that had formed a society far more complex than those of most other North American tribes. Upon return to Germany, Aurel Krause published "The Tlingit Indians." In it were rich, detailed descriptions of the Tlingit kinship system, societal structure, village and family life, customs and traditions, subsistence living, arts and crafts, mythology and shamanism, a language glossary, and an extensive bibliography. Aurel's brother, Arthur, sketched many of the illustrations.

This enduring comprehensive resource offers the contemporary reader a glimpse into the history and traditions of an important Northwest Coast culture.

Red Thunder David Matheson Fiction 9781935347255 6x9 - 320 pages Paperback $17.95

Red Thunder is told through the eyes of Sun Bear and his sister Rainbow Girl. The full circle of life is explored through following several generations of their family band. This portrayal of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe is steeped in deep, authentic cultural traditions, religious beliefs, and their struggle to hold on to what is truly precious and sacred about life-all life.

This is a story of a People--the Schi'tsu'umsh Indians, known today as the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Northern Idaho. The story spans several generations of a Schi'tsu'umsh family, starting in the early 1700s, before the tribe's widespread contact with European settlers. Set amidst the tribe's originally claimed territory, which spans present day Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington and Western Montana, the novel recounts a time when the tribe was governed by laws based exclusively on traditional teachings and the rules of nature.

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Eskimo Star From the Tundra to Tinseltown: The Ray Mala Story

Lael Morgan Biography 9781935347125 8.5x8.5 - 144 pages Paperback $19.95 The blazing marquee of the plush Astor Theater in New York City billed the 1933 premier of Eskimo as 'THE BIGGEST PICTURE EVER MADE,' propelling a 27-year-old Inupiat Eskimo from Candle, Alaska, to overnight stardom. The handsome actor was not only the first Alaskan to become a Hollywood movie star but also the first non-white actor to play in a leading role. This is the story of Ray Wise Mala, the talented and enterprising son of an itinerant Russian trader and an Eskimo mother.

Mala became part of the white man's world but for most of his life struggled to find a place in it, discriminated against because of his mixed race and his father's Jewish faith. At age 16, Mala got his break in Alaska in 1921 when hired to help film Primitive Love in which he was given a role. Mala appeared in more than 25 films over the next three decades, playing Hawaiians, South Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and other 'exotics.' Mala was a generous, sophisticated, self-made man from humble origins who straddled the gap between two cultures, never forgetting the debt he owed his own. Eskimo Star includes many historic photos and colorful movie posters.

Purely Alaska Authentic Voices from the Far North

Susan Andrews (ed.) & John Creed (ed.)

Anthology 9781935347101 6x9 - 320 pages Paperback $17.95 In the immense, road less expanse of the Far North, storytelling has thrived for many generations. Stories range from harrowing survival adventures to tales of other exotic people, places, and cultures. This anthology captures some of these stories as told by rural Alaskans.

This volume is a sequel to Authentic Alaska. The majority of writers whose work appears here have lived in rural Alaska for many years. This anthology offers glimpses of regular people meeting life’s everyday challenges while experiencing the same struggles, joys, and idiosyncrasies that humans face everywhere; adolescents coming of age, struggles with addiction, regional idiom, and cross-cultural challenges.

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On the Edge of Nowhere James Huntington & Lawrence Elliot Memoir

9780970849335 6x9 - 192 pages Paperback $14.95 For sheer excitement and adventure, few novels match the true-life story of James Huntington. The son of a white trapper and Indian mother, Huntington learned early to fight for survival in Alaska's remote Kuskokwim region, where life was hard. Huntington's mother once walked 1,000 miles in the dead of winter to return to her family. Later, when she died, it fell to her son--then just seven--to care for his brother and sister. A courageous yet modest man, Huntington hunts wolves, fights bears, survives close calls too numerous to mention, and becomes the first musher to win the Anchorage and Fairbanks sleddog race championships in the same year.

On the Edge of Nowhere is an enduring Alaska classic, an astonishing story filled with surprising twists and turns and still "tingling with excitement," as a reviewer put it, in this third edition of an Alaska classic.

About the Author Lawrence Elliott, who has written several books and numerous magazine articles, was Reader's Digest correspondent for Alaska and western Canada when this story was written in the mid-1960s. Elliott now lives in Luxembourg.

Moments Rightly Placed An Aleutian Memoir

Ray Hudson Anthology 9780979047077 5.5x8.5 - 223 pages Paperback $14.95 Along a thousand-mile chain of treeless and windswept islands, Unalaska is perched at the end of the world, or, as some prefer to say, the beginning. In 1964, Ray Hudson, 22, landed in Unalaska village with a brand-new college degree, eager to teach. Captivated by Unalaska and the history and traditions of its enduring people, Hudson stayed. As the years passed--one, then five, ten, then twenty--he was embraced by his Aleut neighbors, sharing their celebrations and tragedies, teaching their children, exploring their language, and, much to their surprise, learning their delicate art of grass basketry. Ray Hudson’s intimate memoir weaves together landscape and language, storytelling and silence, ancient mythology and day-to-day village life. Ultimately he pays homage to the people he came to teach, and who, in the end, were his teachers.

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