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Poetry

Roughly For the North

Ojanen Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9781602233621, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North" "Roughly for the North" is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an a...

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Children's Books

Stubborn Gal The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer

O'Neill Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232723, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

"Stubborn Gal" is the true story of a sixty-mile sled dog race and a young woman determined, if not exactly qualified, to run it. A grandfather tells his granddaughter about the tenacious Sarah and her adventure with sled dogs. The older Sarah, bored...

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Anthropology

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon

O'Brien Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231443, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2011
202 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 73 halftones, 43 line illus.

The most detailed and well-illustrated study of material culture for any northern Athabascan language group to date, "Gwich'in Athabascan Implements" reproduces pre- and early post-contact tools that are historically important to the Athabaskan peopl...

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Fashion

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Oakes Jill

ISBN: PB: 9781602230064, ISBN: HB: 9781889963808, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2007
176 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

"Alaska Eskimo Footwear" celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essentia...

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