By James Kari, James A. Fall, William Bright, Shem Pete
ISBN-10: 1423715101
ISBN-13: 9781423715108
ISBN-10: 1889963577
ISBN-13: 9781889963570
Shem Pete (1896-1989), the colourful and terrific raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a wealthy legacy of information concerning the higher prepare dinner Inlet Dena'ina international. Pete was once the most flexible storytellers and historians in twentieth-century Alaska, and his lifetime shuttle map of roughly 13,500 sq. miles is without doubt one of the greatest ever documented during this measure of aspect wherever within the world.This accelerated variation of Shem Pete's Alaska offers 973 named areas in sixteen drainage-based chapters. The names shape a reconstructed community from the vantage issues of the existence reports of Shem Pete and different Dena'ina and Ahtna audio system. it truly is annotated with reviews and tales through Shem Pete and greater than 50 different participants, plus old references, vignettes, copious images, ancient maps, and shaded-relief placename maps. The authors supply viewpoint on Dena'ina language and tradition, in addition to a precis of Dena'ina geographic wisdom and placename examine methodology.This fantastically produced version is a treasure for all Alaskans and for someone attracted to the "personal connectedness to a stunning land" voiced by way of Dena'ina elders.From the foreword by means of William vivid: "Shem Pete's event and knowledge as an elder of the Dena'ina Athabascan Indians shine via this paintings just like the sun?€”as do the ability and devotion of James Kari, James Fall, and the opposite Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alaska local, and Anglo-American those who contributed to creating the ebook a fact. . . . we now have a quantity that gives a brilliant photograph of local Alaskan tradition, historical past, geography, and language, with further glimpses of oral literature and song. . . . All local American Peoples, certainly, all conventional groups on the earth will be lucky and proud to have this type of checklist in their existence and culture."
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Archaeological evidence does not clearly support a migration of Dena’ina from west of the Alaska Range as suggested by linguistic data (Kari 1996:52). More archaeological data will be needed to test that hypothesis. Archaeology does support long-term communication between the Ahtna of Copper River country with the Upper Inlet Dena’ina. Archaeology cannot prove Copper River people moved to the Susitna River valley or whether only features of their language, along with copper and architecture, were adopted by the Dena’ina.
These could be the oldest Dena’ina sites in the Upper Inlet dialect area. The Dena’ina next may have occupied the lower and middle Susitna River region, the Tyonek area, and Knik Arm. The story of the Salmon Boy told by Shem Pete (see Chapter 8) is set at the group of sites on lower Kroto Creek. This story implies that there 13 was a time when the Dena’ina did not have reliable salmon runs and that Kroto Creek was a focal place for the harvest and ritualization of salmon. The name for the Tyonek area, Tubughnen‘Beach Land’, is so basic that it implies that this was the first beach on the inlet that the Dena’ina occupied.
Mr. Stephan is a shy man, but his strong interest in his Native culture and heritage becomes apparent even in a short conversation” (McClanahan 1986:102). Sava’s father was Anderson Stephan of Kroto Creek village and his mother was Inga Stephan also from Kroto Creek village. Inga’s full maiden name was Evgenia Ephim, and she was Shem Pete’s wife’s mother’s sister’s daughter. Anderson Stephan and Shem Pete were close friends. In fact, Shem and his wife, also named Inga, and Anderson and Inga were married in a double wedding in Talkeetna in 1919.
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