Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers and Orators: The Expanded Edition

The project was funded, in part, by a Heritage and Preservation Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. ALASKA NATIVE WRITERS, STORYTELLERS & ORATORS: THE EXPANDED EDITION is introduced by Native American author and scholar, Gerald Vizenor (University of California Berkeley), and features: (1) English versions of traditions texts from 15 original Alaska Native languages with facing translations in Eyak, Haida, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Unangan, Alutiiq, Central Yup'ik, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Inupiaq, and Dena'ina. (2) Contemporary Alaska Native stories, essays, and poems (written in English). (3) A contexts section provides cultural and historical background about selected works. The book also includes 9 photographic plates courtesy of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and 2 photographic plates courtesy of Alaska Native artist and writer Susie Silook.