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Bezig met laden... Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People (2009)door William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book is not one I would have chosen on my own, which makes me very grateful I belong to a book group. The author's style makes the reader feel as if they are sitting down beside him while he weaves the threads of his life together in true storyteller fashion. The abillity to see Alaska and his people through his eyes rather than my own feels like a treasure. This is a book I know I will go back to again and again over the years and will no doubt always find new things to love about it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Documents the author's traditional childhood north of the Arctic Circle, his decision to pursue an education in the continental U.S., and his successful lobbying efforts that convinced the government to allocate land and monetary resources to Alaska's natives in compensation for incursions on their way of life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)979.8History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. AlaskaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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As a child he and his sister were taken from their alcoholic mother in Nome by her cousin--who took them back to his parents in Kotzebue. They raised these two children--in addition to their own large family--as their own. In many ways this book is a paean to his great aunt and uncle. They raised all of their children in the traditional Inupiat ways--in Kotzebue for the winter, and out in the bush for the summer. They trapped, hunted, fished, and gathered to put away food for the long winter. They dried, smoked, and fermented everything. They ate traditional delicacies like whale skin and walrus. He had a wonderful childhood.
Hensley himself wanted to go to school, so he went. And he loved it, and went on to boarding school in Tennessee and then college. He served in the Alaska legislature, and worked in DC. He was instrumental in the Alaskan Native Claims, helped found NANA, and worked for an Inuit corporation. He helped found the Alaska Federation of Natives, and helped found/fun high schools in the far north so students no longer have to go to boarding school. Later in life, he came to the realization that as much as he loved school and education, a standard American education (let alone a boarding school education) has helped (intentionally) destroy native cultures, and he convinced the Inupiak to work to collect and share and educate the younger generations before the language and culture was lost. ( )