MMIWG Archives — Denali Sunrise Publications

While Nanabijou Sleeps: Tanya Talaga on racism and survival of Indigenous youth

by Lisa Alexia | Sep 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media

When I first heard about Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, by journalist Tanya Talaga, © 2017, House of Anansi Press, I recalled my observations when passing through the township of Armstrong, Ontario, in 1996. An unincorporated...

An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 1

by Lisa Alexia | Aug 31, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media

Salmonberries: An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 1(Note: Transcript of “An Interview with Julia Phillips” has been edited and condensed for clarity). Listen to “An Interview with Julia Phillips, Part 1” on Spreaker. Welcome to our...

Women of Kamchatka: Review of Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

by Lisa Alexia | Aug 6, 2019 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media | 2 comments

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...

Split Tooth Review: Expressions of the Circumpolar Arctic

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,...

Ice, Fire, Survival in Rural Alaska: Review of Wakolee’s Starting a Fire

by Lisa Alexia | Feb 16, 2019 | Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media

Starting a Fire: Bringing Light to the Dark, by Tia Wakolee ©2018 (Note: Article updated July 1, 2020 to reflect current information about how to obtain the book). Tia Wakolee has done a brave and necessary thing. She has shared her stories with the world as a step in...