Alaska's Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century

by Elizabeth Pinson, Pinson, Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson

Book Overview

Elizabeth B. Pinson shares with us her memories of Alaska's emergence into a new and modern era, bearing witness to history in the early twentieth century as she recalls it. She draws us into her world as a young girl of mixed ethnicity, with a mother whose Eskimo family had resided on the Seward Peninsula for generations and a father of German heritage. Growing up in and near the tiny village of Teller on the Bering Strait, Elizabeth at the age of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874215919
• ISBN13: 9780874215915
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher