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Susan Andrews
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Saturday, 11 December 2010 00:51 |
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New! Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North now has a Facebook page dedicated to it. Just log into Facebook, and do a search on the term "Purely Alaska," and there it will be. If you are a fan of Purely Alaska, be sure to visit the Facebook site and indicate where you "like this" with the thumbs-up sign.
Also New! Purely Alaska should soon be available as a Google e-book.
For the Holidays! Consider giving Purely Alaska as a gift in paperback for the holidays. Family members and friends Outside will love it, as will people living throughout rural Alaska's villages and urban centers.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 December 2010 01:49 |
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Susan B. Andrews and John Creed
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Friday, 15 October 2010 00:00 |
 Purely Alaska: Authentic Voices from the Far North is an anthology offering both historical and contemporary material on a unique way of life from some of the most far-flung reaches of America's most remote state. The volume was released in June 2010.
Purely Alaska showcases "ordinary" people with extraordinary insights amid some of the most magnificent, rugged, wild and exotic places in America's largest yet by far most sparsely populated state. Purely Alaska was not written by outsiders, including not even "outsiders" from urban Alaska. Indeed, these writers share experiences only those who live in rural Alaska can capture as authentically, as unassumingly.
In a state where more than half the population lives in the Anchorage area, life outside the more urban centers (called rural Alaska or the Alaska Bush) embraces a remote, exotic, mostly roadless northern land where most people who travel must fly, or ply often-treacherous waterways in summer, or in winter follow primitive trails over frozen land, lakes, rivers, and even the sea. Purely Alaska showcases a diverse assortment of rural Alaskans who hail from the forbidding shores of the Arctic Ocean to the lush rainforests in Southeast Alaska a thousand miles away.
Join these writers as they detail Inupiaq elder Nellie Woods' years-long ordeal in the 1930s driving a herd of stubborn reindeer across extreme northern Alaska to starving Eskimos in northern Canada Experience up close a young Native man's more contemporary struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. Enjoy the amusing vagaries of Southeast Alaska mushing so soggy the dogs need foot powder. Read the amusing account of mother's attempt to steer her son to college when he'd really rather just be a fisherman like his dad. Learn about the many uses of the common Eskimo expression, "Adii."
Purely Alaska's writers have called rural Alaska home for decades, if not all their lives. Committed to living in their remote communities for many years, these University of Alaska students offer unvarnished truths amid a unique way of life, blending traditional life with today's modern Internet world. Purely Alaska: Voices from the Far North follows the national award-winning Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers. This all-new volume features both Native and non-Native writers. Purely Alaska was created by Susan B. Andrews and John Creed, professors of humanities and journalism who have taught for the University of Alaska in Kotzebue since the late 1980s.
Epicenter Press released Purely Alaska in June 2010.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:27 |
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Equity in Health Care Access Essential for All Alaskans |
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Susan B. Andrews & John Creed
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Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:01 |
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 KOTZEBUE--The phone rang at about 9:30 on a Thursday evening in mid-September.
It was a nurse, calling from Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka.
Our son Trevor had been throwing up all day in sick bay.
“We’ll be bringing Trevor over to the emergency room shortly,” the nurse explained. “We’re concerned he’ll get dehydrated.”
Less than three weeks before, Trevor and his twin sister Deirdre had stepped on the afternoon jet in Kotzebue—their windswept, treeless hometown in Northwest Arctic Alaska—heading for their freshman year at Mt. Edgecumbe, a state-run boarding high school in Sitka nearly a thousand miles across the state in Southeast Alaska.
As we did with their older brother and sister before them, we sent our 14-year-old twins to Mt. Edgecumbe to broaden their educational horizons.
The school nurse characterized the transfer as a routine precaution. Indeed, Trevor might even get sprung soon enough for school in the morning and cross-country running practice with his teammates the next afternoon.
But a physician at Sitka’s tribal hospital, Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, called us at midnight, dashing those hopes.
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Lindsey Wells
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Friday, 16 April 2010 22:46 |
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NOORVIK—In early January 2010, our boys and girls basketball teams visited Yakutat for a tournament, but we experienced much more than just basketball. This amazing Tlingit village of about 800 residents lies about 212 miles northwest of Juneau and 225 miles southeast of Cordova in southeast Alaska. In Tlingit, Yakutat means “a place where the canoes rest.”
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 15:19 |
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Susan B. Andrews and John Creed are writers, editors and educators. Since the late 1980s, Professors Andrews and Creed have taught humanities and journalism at Kotzebue-based Chukchi College, a branch of the University of Alaska. Kotzebue lies about 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska and some 175 miles from the eastern tip of Russia. Their anthology of Alaska Native student writers, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers, is part of an ongoing cultural journalism project. Former full-time journalists, since joining the UA faculty they have authored non-fiction articles, columns, and book reviews for newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and scholarly journals. They also publish photographs and fiction. Read more... |
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