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CULTURAL INITIATIVESBook Collection

The Bering Strait region has a rich history. In documenting this knowledge, BSNC has collected a wide variety of books written by shareholders, descendants and others about the history of our region, Our People and our lifestyle. The collection of books contains information on ivory carving, survival, the gold rush days, dog mushing and historical and cultural stories of our beautiful region. A language dictionary of one of the dialects spoken in the region is also included. Please be advised that some of the books may be hard to come by but most can be purchased online.

If you know of any other books that should be added to this list, please email: media@beringstraits.com.

Books by shareholders and descendants:

    1. Dark Traffic: Poems by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Dark Traffic: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822966623: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
    2. Eskimo Legends by Lela Kiana Oman, Eskimo Legends: Lela Kiana Oman: Amazon.com: Books
    3. Grandfather of Unalakleet Lineage of Alluyagnak by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, Grandfather of Unalakleet, the lineage of Alluyagnak (eBook, 1974) [WorldCat.org]
    4. Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Hyperboreal (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822962625: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
    5. Igaluinmiutullu Qawiaragmiutullu Aglait Nalaunaitkataat (A Qawairaq Igaluik Inupiat Dictionary) by Roy Agloinga, Luann Harrelsson, Steven Agloinga and Agnes Komakhuk, Iġałuinmiutullu Qawiaraġmiutullu Aglait Nalaunaitkataat = Qawiaraq Igaluik Inupiat dictionary: Roy Agloinga, Luann Harrelson, Steven Agloinga, Agnes Komakhuk: 9780989401401: Amazon.com: Books
    6. Irigak by Amber Cunningham, Purchase Irigak – Irigak
    7. Irigak II: Maverick Seizes the Land by Amber R. Cunningham, Purchase Irigak – Irigak
    8. Jesus and the Eskimos by Fred Savok, Jesus &The Eskimo: How the Man of the Sky Brought the Light to My People: Fred Savok: 9780976081708: Amazon.com: Books
    9. Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher’s Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 by Eileen Norbert, Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher’s Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932: Norbert, Eileen: 9780295999333: Amazon.com: Books
    10. Milk Black Carbon by Joan Naviyuk Kane, Milk Black Carbon (Pitt Poetry Series): 9780822964513: Kane, Joan Naviyuk: Books
    11. Open the Dark by Marie Tozier, Open the Dark: 9781597099202: Tozier, Marie: Books
    12. People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo by William A. Oquilluk and Laurel L. Bland, People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo (Alaskana Book Series): Oquilluk, William A., Bland, Laurel L.: 9780935094077: Amazon.com: Books 
    13. Roger Menadelook by Eileen Norbert, akanth-articles_430_v11_n12_Menadelook.pdf (alaskaanthropology.org)
    14. Salt & Roses by Buffy McKay, Salt & Roses: McKay, Buffy: 9798885250474: Amazon.com: Books
    15. Tales of Ticasuk Eskimo Legends and Stories by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends and Stories: Ticasuk, (Emily Ivanoff Brown): 9780912006451: Amazon.com: Books
    16. The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife by Joan Naviyuk Kane, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (The Alaska Literary Series): Kane, Joan: 9781602231573: Amazon.com: Books
    17. The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told By My People by Lela Kiana Oman, The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told by My People: Oman, Lela Kiana: 9780886292676: Amazon.com: Books
    18. Our Fur-fathers of Southwest Alaska by Bev Sims and Dianne Zitnik, Our Fur-father’s of Southwest Alaska: Kalmakoff, Kameroff, Kamkoff: Sims, Bev, Zitnik, Dianne: 9781546668732: Amazon.com: Books
    19. The Longest Story Ever Told: Qayaq, The Magical Man by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, The Longest Story Ever Told: Qayaq, The Magical Man: Ticasuk, (Emily Ivanoff Brown): 9781602230460: Amazon.com: Books
    20. The Red Dragonfly from Alaska by Gertie Ann, The Red Dragonfly From Alaska: 9781642999242: Ann, Gertie: Books
    21. The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman’s Family Story by Emily (Ticasuk) Ivanoff Brown, The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman’s Family Story: Brown, Emily I, Ticasuk, Brown, Emily Ivanoff: 9780882401171: Amazon.com: Books
    22. The Straits by Joan Naviyuk Kane, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36195433-the-straits
    23. The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox, https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Walk-Century-Old-Survival-Story-ebook/dp/B0055E8Y8Q#customerReviews
    24. The Storytellers’ Club: The Picture Writing Women of the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox The Storytellers’ Club: The Picture-Writing Women of the Arctic: Cox, Loretta Outwater: 9780882406077: Amazon.com: Books
    25. Under the Arctic Sun: The Life and Times of Frank and Ada Degnan by Frances Ann Degnan, Under the Arctic Sun: The Life and Times of Frank and Ada Degnan: Degnan, Frances Ann: 9780966965001: Amazon.com: Books
    26. A Boy and His Grandpa by Suzanne Urban, https://g.co/kgs/k7nYAR

    27. Fearless and Moving On: Overcoming Fear by Suzanne Urban, https://g.co/kgs/NGnKj9

    28. Give Or Take a Century: an Eskimo Chronicle by J.E. Senungetuk, Give Or Take a Century: an Eskimo Chronicle: Senungetuk, J. E.: 9781125927946: Amazon.com: Books
    29. Alaskan Igloo Tales by Edward Keithahn and George Aden Ahgupuk, https://www.amazon.com/Alaskan-Igloo-Reprint-Edward-Keithahn/dp/1616461993

Book by a shareholder spouse:

    1. Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same by Mattox Roesch, Amazon.com: Sometimes We’re Always Real Same-Same: 9781932961874: Roesch, Mattox: Books

Books about the region:

    1. A Group of Alaskan Eskimos Receive Greetings and Sample the Hospitality of Soviet Russia by Roger (Kokituk) Menadelook
    2. A line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy
    3. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
    4. Alaska Eskimo Footwear by Jill Oakes and Rick Riewe
    5. Alaska Gold Rush at Nome by Lawrence David Weiss
    6. Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson, “Alaska’s Daughter” by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson (usu.edu)
    7. Alaska’s Seward Peninsula by National Geographic
    8. Alaska’s Wolf man by Jim Rearden
    9. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait by Allen Wardwell
    10. Brevig Mission, Alaska by David Vincent
    11. Empire’s Edge American Society in Nome, Alaska 1898-1934 by Preston Jones
    12. Eskimo Carvers of the Bering Sea Walrus Ivory Carving by Dale Kessler
    13. Ethnohistory In the Arctic: The Bering Strait Eskimo by Dorothy Jean Ray
    14. Fairy Tales & Myths Of The Bering Strait Chukchi by Alexander B. Dolitsky
    15. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska by Elizabeth Marino
    16. Floating Coast An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
    17. I Am Eskimo: Aknik My Name by Paul Green
    18. Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902 by Kathleen Lopp-Smith
    19. Icebound Summer by Sally Carrighar
    20. In A Far Country by John Taliaferro
    21. Jorgy: The Life of Native Alaskan Bush Pilot and Arline Captain Holger “Jorgy” Jorgenson by Holger Jorgenson and Jean Lester
    22. King Island Tales: Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit – Eskimo History and Legends from Bering Strait by Laurence Kaplan
    23. Kuuvanmiut Subsistence/Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century by Douglas B. Anderson
    24. Men of the Tundra/Alaska Eskimos at War by Marvin Muktuk Marston
    25. Moonlight at Midday: Alaska, its animals, ghosts, and people, Eskimos and white by Sally Carrighar
    26. Nome “City of Golden Beaches” by National Geographic Vol.11, No.1
    27. Nome Alaska 2006 by Stephen Cysewski
    28. Once Upon An Eskimo Time by Edna Wilder
    29. Pioneer Missionary to The Bering Strait Eskimos by Louis L. Renner
    30. Plants that We Eat: Nauriat Niginaqtuat by Anore Jones
    31. Reindeer and Gold by Keith A. Murray
    32. Saami, Reindeer, and Gold in Alaska/The Emigration of Saami from Norway to Alaska by Ornulv Vorren
    33. Sakuuktugut by Alexander McClanaham
    34. Savoonga Ivory Carvers: A Yupik Walrus Ivory Carving Tradition on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska by Bruce Bartholomew
    35. Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing by Edna Wilder
    36. Seppala Alaska Dog Driver by Elizabeth M. Ricker
    37. Siku: Knowing Our Ice by Claudio Aporta
    38. Taparmiuni Kassiyulriit/Stebbins Dance Festival by Anatole Bogryaktuk & Charlie Steve
    39. The Alaska Paintings of Fred Machetanz by Russ Riemann
    40. The Bering Strait Crossing: A 21st Century Frontier Between East and West by James A. Oliver
    41. The Birds of Gambell and St. Lawrence Island, Alaska by Paul Lehman
    42. The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury and Lance Salisbury
    43. The Eskimo About Bering Strait by Edward William Nelson
    44. The Eskimo Girl and the Englishman by Edna Wilder
    45. The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 by Dorothy Jean Ray
    46. The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska by Ernest S. Burch Jr.
    47. The Kids from Nowhere written by George Guthridge
    48. The King Island Journal by Juan Muñoz
    49. The Last Days of Shishmaref by Dana Lixenberg
    50. The North American Indian Volume 20 – The Alaskan Eskimo, The Nunivak Eskimo of Hooper Bay, Eskimo of King island, Eskimo of Little Diomede island, Eskimo by Edward S. Curtis
    51. Unpublished Alaska by Edward S. Curtis
    52. Yupik Transitions: Change and Survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960 by Krupnik & Michael Chlenov
    53. Our Stories Etched in Ivory: Qulip’yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami, Edited by Amy Phillips-Chan
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PO Box 1008. 110 Front Street, Suite 300, Nome, Alaska 99762
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