Alaska Native Resilience : Voices from World War II

• Autore: Guise Holly Miowak
• Pubblicazione: Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.54/28
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Alaska - Aleutian Islands; Aleuts - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Aleuts - Relocation; Aleuts - Alaska - Social conditions - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Evacuation of civilians - Alaska; Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Alaska - Aleutian Islands; World War, 1939-1945 - Alaska; World War, 1939-1945
• Soggetto geografico: Attu Island (Alaska) History Japanese occupation, 1942-1943; Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Forms of Separation, Exclusion, and Segregation in the Alaska Territory during World War II -- An Alaskan Introduction: Regaining Indigenous Equilibrium as Wartime Resistance -- One: Unangax̂ Relocation: Forced Removal and Forced Labor -- Two: Survivance Alliance: Tribal Mutual Aid and Sovereignty -- Three: War on Unangax̂ Soil: The Battle of Attu, Native Nations, and the US Military -- Four: The Alaska Territorial Guard: The Indigenized Guerrilla Platoon ; Five: Racing and Erasing Natives: Frozen Jim Crow and Assimilation -- Six: War and Sexual Violence: Gender, Segregation, and Imperialism in Alaska -- Epilogue: People, Land, and Sovereignty -- Appendix: Timeline of Oral History Research Travels -- Glossary Because Terms Matter -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Series List -- Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: "Iñupiaq scholar Holly Guise explores the relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during World War II, especially the ways in which Alaska Natives engaged with colonial projects to serve Indigenous goals. From interviews and oral histories of over eighty-five elders across Alaska as well as tribal and other institutional archives, Guise shares stories not only of loss and suffering in the World War II era, but also Indigenous resiliency and defiance"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Alaska Native Resilience
• ISBN: 0-295-75253-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911009159203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indigenous Confluences Series