Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son
Author: Mary F. Ehrlander
Year: 2017
ISBN: 9780803295902
Abstract: Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America's tallest mountain. Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper. His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language. When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdeacon Hudson Stuck hired the skilled and charismatic youth as his riverboat pilot and winter trail guide. During the following years, as the two traveled among Interior Alaska's Episcopal missions, they developed a father-son-like bond and summited Denali together in 1913.
Shem Pete's Alaska
Author: [compiled and edited] by James Kari and James A. Fall ; principal contributor, Shem Pete ; additional place names and commentary by Daniel Alex [and 51 others]
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781602233065
We have not stopped trembling yet : letters to my Filipino-Athabascan family
Author: E.J.R. David
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781438469522
Abstract: A father's personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family's experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.
Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival
Author: by Velma Wallis ; illustrations by Jim Grant
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780062244987
Abstract: Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Cold River Spirits : Whispers from a Family's Forgotten Past
Author: Jan Harper-Haines
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9781935347156
Crow is my boss : the oral life history of a Tanacross Athabaskan elder
Author: Kenny Thomas Sr. ; edited by Craig Mishler ; translations by Irene Arnold ; transcriptions by Gary Holton
Year: 2005
ISBN: 9780806136592
Northern Athabascan survival : women, community, and the future
Author: Phyllis Ann Fast
Year: 2002
ISBN: 9780803220171
Our voices : Native stories of Alaska and the Yukon
Author: edited by James Ruppert and John W. Bernet
Year: 2001
ISBN: 9780803289840
Abstract: Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the communities of interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory. These are the tales the people tell about themselves, their communities, and the world they inhabit. Our Voices showcases twenty storytellers and writers who represent a full range of Athabaskan and related languages of Alaska and the Yukon. Both men and women recount popular tales of ancient times that describe the origins of social institutions and cultural values, as well as meaningful, sometimes intimate stories about their own lives and families or the history of their people. As representatives of an art transmitted through countless generations and now practiced with renewed interest and vigor by people reclaiming their cultural heritage, these narratives create a broad, brightly colored, richly detailed picture of the world of the Far North, present and past.--Amazon.com.