Our Story in Many Voices
The Alaska State Museum Catalog and Guide
Alaska preserves and exhibits its own culture and history in the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building in Juneau, the home of the State Library, Archives, and Museum. With this catalogue and guide, the meaning of the museum exhibits gains new depth.
A Dictionary of Modern Consternation
This cheeky dictionary-shaped exploration is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family through the years from the financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stronger Together / Kammanatut Atausigun / Iknaqataghaghluta Qerngaamta
Bering Strait Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Strait communities in the COVID-19 era, Stronger Together is a unique collaboration between the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome, Alaska, and over forty community members, artists, and poets from across the Bering Strait region.
Gagaan X'usyee/Below the Foot of the Sun
Poems
Identity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the Foot of the Sun is a unique collection of Indigenous cultural work and Lingít literature in the tradition of Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and in the broader contemporary company of Joy Harjo and Sherwin Bitsui.
Iñupiat of the Sii
Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges
Iñupiat of the Sii is a firsthand account of Wanni and Douglas Anderson’s lived experiences during eight field seasons of archaeological and ethnographic research in Selawik, Alaska, from 1968 to 1994.
Natchiq Grows Up
The Story of an Alaska Ringed Seal Pup and Her Changing Home
This is the story of Natchiq, the ringed seal pup, growing up in her snow cave on the sea ice in northern Alaska with her mom Siku.
The Upper Tanana Dene
People of This Land
The Upper Tanana Deneconveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations.
Dall Sheep Dinner Guest:
Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska
The Gwich’in Climate Report
A regional climate impact and adaptation report from the Gwich'in Athabascans of Interior Alaska,
The Gwich’in Climate Report is a compilation of transcribed interviews between Matt Gilbert and northern Alaska Gwich’in Athabascan community members, elders, hunters, and trappers.
Cabin Stories
The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
Cabin Stories: The Best of Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska is a collection of favorite stories selected by the executive producers of the hit live event, radio show, and podcast Dark Winter Nights.
Alaska Herring History
The Story of Alaska’s Herring Fisheries and Industry
Alaska Herring History is a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and comprehensive chronicle of Alaska’s herring fisheries.
Spirit Things
Northern Garden Symphony
Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season
Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine
Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
Finding True North
First-Hand Stories of the Booms that Built Modern Alaska
Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic
Go Play Outside!
Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails
The Wake of the Unseen Object
Travels through Alaska's Native Landscapes
With the Wind and the Waves
A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities
Tongass Odyssey
Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees
Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground
Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska
A Coast to Explore
Coastal Geology and Ecology of Central California
Hard Driving
The 1908 Auto Race From New York to Paris
A Coast of Scenic Wonders
Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region
The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in North America. Permafrost gradients span from nearly continuous to absent. Boreal ecosystems are inherently dynamic and continually change over decades to millennia. The braided rivers that shape the valleys and wetlands continually change course, creating and removing vast wetlands and peatlands. Glacial melt, erosion, fires, permafrost dynamics, and wind-blown loess are among the shaping forces of the landscape. As a result, species interactions and ecosystem processes are shifting across time. The NWB is a data-poor region, and the intention of the NWB Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is to determine what data are not available and what data are available. For instance, historical baseline data describing the economic and social relationships in association with the ecological condition of the NWB landscape are often lacking. Likewise, the size and remoteness of this region make it challenging to measure basic biological information, such as species population sizes or trends. The paucity of weather and climate monitoring stations also compound the ability to model future climate trends and impacts, which is part of the nature of working in the north. The purpose of this volume is to create a resource for regional land and resource managers and researchers by synthesizing the latest research on the (1) historical/current status of landscape-scale drivers (including anthropogenic activities) and ecosystem processes, (2) future projected changes of each, and (3) the effects of changes on important resources. Generally, each chapter is coauthored by researchers and land and natural resource managers from the United States and Canada.
100-word description:
The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in North America. The purpose of this volume is to create a resource for regional land and resource managers and researchers by synthesizing the latest research on the (1) historical/current status of landscape-scale drivers (including anthropogenic activities) and ecosystem processes, (2) future projected changes of each, and (3) the effects of changes on important resources. Generally, each chapter is coauthored by researchers and land and natural resource managers from the United States and Canada.
One sentence description:
This book was produced to provide a synthesis of the latest research on the historical/current status of landscape-scale drivers in the Northwest Boreal region of Alaska and western Canada for regional land and resource managers, researchers, and the general public.