Alaska Native Resilience

Voices from World War II

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Charlotte Coté

▪Coll Thrush

Verlag:

University of Washington Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34887667

EAN: 9780295752518

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 23.09.2026

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CHF 169.–

Beschreibung

Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the Pacific War. The forced relocation and internment of Unangax̂ in 1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control. Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting sovereignty over their homelands. A multifaceted challenge to conventional histories, Alaska Native Resilience shares the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to colonialism.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Holly Miowak Guise
Charlotte Coté
Coll Thrush

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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