Record Nr.

UNINA9910465177603321

Autore

Johnson Albin <1865-1947, >

Titolo

Seventeen years in Alaska : a depiction of life among the Indians of Yakutat / / Albin Johnson, posted by the Swedish Mission's Organization, 1889 ; edited and translated by Mary Ehrlander

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Fairbanks : , : University of Alaska Press, , [2014]
©2014

ISBN

1-60223-212-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Collana

Rasmuson Library historical translation series ; ; volume 16

Disciplina

979.8004/9727

Soggetti

Tlingit Indians - Missions - Alaska - Yakutat Bay Region

Tlingit Indians - Alaska - Yakutat Bay Region - Social life and customs

Missionaries - Alaska - Yakutat Bay Region

Missionaries - Sweden

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Sjutton ar i Alaska.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction-Mary Ehrlander; Foreword; Author's Foreword; I; The Childhood Home; II; The Journey to Alaska; III; Mission Works' Founding; A First Fruit's Sheaf; The First Christmas in Alaska; Victory Spoils from the Mission Field in Alaska; "The Criers" in Alaska; IV; A Dark Chapter; Professor David Nyvall's Letter to Mellander; V; A Magic Man Hears the Gospel; Practical Work; An Old Legend; The Tlingit Indians' Concept of God; "Whale Killer Feast"; Totem Poles; Wedding in Alaska; At a Funeral; VI; A Little Geography; Alaska's Mountainous Landscape

Earthquake and Fire-Spewing MountainsA Mountain Climb; Professor David Nyvall's Visit to the Mission Station, Summer 1903; Alaska, a Land of Gold; Alaska's Climate; Wild Berries; VII; Hunting and Fishing in Alaska; A Bear Story; The Man Who Shot Many Bears; An Adventuresome Seal Hunt; The Tlingit's Yearly Potlatch (Annual Feast); VIII; Sunset in Alaska; The Northern Lights; Chief George Naa-kaa-nee; The Thousand-Year-Old Woman; Stranded on an Island; An Adventure at the Hot Springs; IX; The Census in Alaska, Year 1900; Implementation

of the Law in Alaska; X; The Fruits of the Mission Work

NotesWorks Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yakutat, he found himself in a wave of foreign arrivals as migrants poured into Alaska seeking economic opportunities and the chance at a different life. While Johnson came with pious intentions, others imposed Western values and vices, leaving disease and devastation in their wake.Seventeen Years in Alaska is Johnson's eyewitness account of this tumu