Alaska Reader Voices from the North

by Hanley, Anne; Kremers, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9781555915551
• ISBN10: 1555915558
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum

Summary

Who speaks for Alaska? Who understands its intimate secrets, its difficult surprises, its wonder and danger beyond the stereotypes and cliches of "The Last Frontier"? How can anyone write or talk with authority about such a vast, mysterious, myth-filled place?

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
I: CHILDREN OF DREAMERS
Seth Kantner	3	(13)
from Ordinary Wolves
Arlitia Jones	16	(1)
1972: Moving to Alaska to Open a Meat Shop
Jean Anderson	17	(5)
Snobs
Linda Schandelmeier	22	(1)
Fire
Natalie Kusz	23	(8)
from Road Song
Marjorie Kowalski Cole	31	(8)
from Correcting the Landscape
Kim Rich	39	(10)
from Johnny's Girl
II: TAKING RISKS, CONFRONTING CONSEQUENCES
Sherry Simpson	49	(12)
from A Man Made Cold by the Universe
Robert Service	61	(1)
The Quitter
John McPhee	62	(9)
from Coming into the Country
James Wickersham	71	(1)
from Old Yukon
Arlitia Jones	72	(1)
Sign on a Cabin in the Caribou Hills
Nick Jans	73	(4)
from Tracks of the Unseen
Jill Fredston	77	(3)
from Rowing to Latitude
James Greiner	80	(8)
from Wager with the Wind: The Don Sheldon Story
Jack London	88	(19)
To Build a Fire
III: TRANSFORMATIONS
Nancy Lord	107	(14)
The Man Who Swam with Beavers
Jennie Masruana Jackson	121	(4)
The Man Who Spent the Winter with Bears
Sheila Nickerson	125	(1)
Fairy Tale
Peter Kalifornsky	126	(1)
Qadanalchen's Song
Alan S. Boraas	127	(1)
from Peter KalIfornskys Dream
Ann Fox Chandonnet	128	(1)
Entering the Surroundings
Nora Marks Dauenhauer	129	(1)
Grandpa Jakwteen in Eclipse
Kimberley Cornwall	130	(1)
What Whales and Infants Know
Tom Sexton	131	(4)
Rowing toward the Spirit World
IV: NAMING AND UNNAMING
Robert Marshall	135	(2)
from Alaska Wilderness
June McGlashan Dirks	137	(2)
Grandmama's Visit
Carolyn Kremers	139	(6)
from Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village
Jerah Chadwick	145	(1)
Not to Talk Bad of the Weather
John Haines	146	(6)
from The Stars, the Snow, the Fire
Nora Marks Dauenhauer	152	(1)
Cross Talk
Mary TallMountain	153	(2)
There Is No Word for Goodbye
Joseph Enzweiler	155	(4)
What to Bring for the Next Century
V: FINDING SELF AND SPIRIT
John Haines	159	(4)
Homestead
John Muir	163	(3)
from Travels in Alaska
Peggy Shumaker	166	(1)
Braided River
John Active	167	(6)
Why Subsistence Is a Matter of Cultural Survival: A Yup'ik Point of View
John Morgan	173	(2)
December: for Spirit
Frank Soos	175	(12)
from Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace
VI: FEMININE AND MASCULINE UNBOUND
Jerah Chadwick	187	(2)
Nawalaskam Agagaa: Woman of Ounalashka
Spike Walker	189	(6)
from Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas
Phoebe Newman	195	(3)
Harry
Velma Wallis	198	(7)
from Raising Ourselves
Semyon Pan'kov	205	(1)
Love Song
Sidney Huntington	206	(7)
from Shadows on the Koyukuk
Dana Stabenow	213	(16)
from A Cold Day for Murder
VII: ALASKA AS A PARABLE FOR THE FUTURE
Dan O'Neill	229	(15)
from The Firecracker Boys
Charles Wohlforth	244	(4)
from The Whale and the Supercomputer
Sally Carrighar	248	(3)
from Moonlight at Midday
Richard K. Nelson	251	(6)
from Shadow of the Hunter
Mary TallMountain	257	(2)
The Last Wolf
Margaret E. Murie	259	(2)
from Two in the Far North
Jay Hammond	261	(3)
from Tales of Alaska's Bush Rat Governor: The Extraordinary Autobiography of Jay Hammond, Wilderness Guide and Reluctant Politician
John Haines	264	(2)
A Requiem for the Arctic Refuge
Howard Weaver	266	(5)
Next Chapter
Tom Sexton	271	(2)
For the Sake of the Light
Contributors	273	(6)
Permissions	279