A Tale of Three Villages: Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740-1950

by Liam Frink

People are often able to identify change agents. They can estimate possible economic and social transitions, and they are often in an economic or social position to make calculated--sometimes risky--choices. Exploring this dynamic, A Tale of Three Villages is an investigation of culture change among the Yup'ik Eskimo people of the southwestern Alaskan coast from just prior to the time of Russian and Euro-North American contact to the mid-twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816531099
• ISBN13: 9780816531097
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"