by Lisa Alexia | Aug 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips has relevance for AlaskaSet in the Kamchatka peninsula of far northeastern Russia, debut novelist Julia Phillips writes in Disappearing Earth about the interior worlds of women, the importance of community, and the impacts of...
by M. Jacqui Lambert | Mar 9, 2019 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Split Tooth review, written by Iñupiaq author and publisher, M. Jacqui Lambert, who is from Kotzebue, Alaska, with family roots in Noorvik and Kiana. Split Tooth © 2018, by Tanya Tagaq, Published by Viking Canada of Penguin Random House Canada, September 25,...
by Lisa Alexia | May 27, 2018 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir by Thomas Pecore WesoWisconsin Historical Society Press, © 2016 Indigenous Anthropology of the Upper Midwest: Wild Rice People Wild rice is a storied and staple grain throughout the upper midwest. The tribal name...
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...