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Authors: Sergei Kan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-17 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vinc
Symbolic Immortality
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Pages: 417
Authors: Sergei Kan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Decades after its initial publication, Symbolic Immortality retains its status as the most comprehensive analysis of the mortuary practices of the Tlingit India
Painful Beauty
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Authors: Megan A. Smetzer
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-27 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Pai
Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-20 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrat
A Dangerous Idea
Language: en
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Authors: Peter Metcalfe
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-15 - Publisher: University of Alaska Press

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Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the A