by Lisa Alexia | Apr 1, 2018 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Village School Libraries When I first moved to a small village in rural Alaska, I would go hang out in the school library. A lot. It was the public internet access point, and as such, a gathering place for the village. I was amazed to find so many books there, in this...
by Lisa Alexia | Mar 3, 2018 | Our Backyard, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska by Elizabeth MarinoMarino isn’t from rural Alaska, nor does she live there. But she’s spent enough of the right kind of time in the community of Shishmaref, to care deeply, and...
by Lisa Alexia | Dec 21, 2017 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media
On a bright winter day last February in a room above the University of Alaska Bookstore in Anchorage, author Chantelle Pence talked to her audience about her first book, Homestead Girl: The View From Here, © 2016, Copper River Press. She, and several Athabascan...