Gospel According to Peter John

JOHN, PETER

Religion & Spirituality

Alaska Native Knowledge Network

Societies acquire scars from war, economic crises, environmental disasters or, as Harold Napoleon tells us, from epidemics. Afflicted by epidemics and their consequences from the 1770s until the 1940s, Alaska Natives are still feeling traumatic effects in the form of alcoholism, suicide and violence. The wholeness of a society that maintained health and vigor for thousands of years was broken by the Great Death and has not been repaired by anti-poverty programs, welfare, government-sponsored health and education programs, or prohibition laws. Through bitter experience, Napoleon, a Yupik Eskimo, has acquired clarity in understanding the roots and tenacity of these problems, articulating them clearly and powerfully. But more than this, he offers a message of hope pointing the way toward cultural revitalization that can begin now. The steps in the journey to reclaiming health and well-being depends on communicating the sorrow and loss and embracing a new way of thinking about the problem. While there is much work to be done, this work shows a way that individuals and villages can transform the Great Death into new life. Napoleon’s narrative is followed by commentaries from elders and academics concerned with understanding and overcoming the challenges that Alaska Natives face today.

Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being

Politics & Social Sciences

Napoleon, Harold

Social Sciences

On the secular front, resistance to the meaningful (non-trivialized) inclusion of Alaska Native language, literature, and culture in the school curriculum remains strong in many districts. Ongoing patterns of discrimination and exclusion in one large district in Southeast Alaska recently prompted the U.S. Office for Civil Rights to take action. --From the Preface

Conflicting Visions in Alaskan Education

Education & Teaching

Dauenhauer, Richard

Schools & Teaching

Howard Luke: My Own Trail

Biographies & Memoirs

Howard, Luke

Historical

Gospel According to Peter John Paperback - September 1, 1996 by Peter John (Author), David J. Krupa (Editor)

PETER, JOHN

In 1993 the Tlingit tribes and clans convened a landmark conferences in Haines, Alaska, which brought Native peoples from Alaska and Canada together with scholars of their language, history, and culture to exchange information and develop a collaborative agenda for future research and policy initiatives. This volume represents the fruits of that unique exchange and collaboration. It includes original contributions by Native and non-Native scholars alike on a variety of key topics, including Tlingit historiography, migrations, warfare, kinship and property tenure, language and literacy, ethnogeography and cultural resource management, subsistence, and naming. 
Bridging past and future, this source book fills an important niche in the literature and is designed especially to be accessible to all students of Tlingit culture.

Will the Time Ever Come?: A Tlingit Source Book

History

Americas

Inuksuk: Northern Koyukon, Gwich'in & Lower Tanana, 1800-1901

Adeline Peter Raboff

Bird Traditions of the Lime Village Area Dena'ina: Upper Stony River Ethno-Ornithology

Science & Math

George C. West

Priscilla Russell

Biological Sciences

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, emphasizing the benefits of blending new and old practices that will simultaneously prepare Alaska Native students for the future while preserving and strengthening their ties to the past.

Alaska Native Education: Views from Within

Anthropology

Alutiiq Plantlore : An Ethnobotany of the Peoples of Nanwalek and Port Graham, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Priscilla N. Russell

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