{"product_id":"alaska-native-resilience-voices-from-world-war-ii-paperback","title":"Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly Miowak Guise\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the Pacific War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe forced relocation and internment of Unangax̂ in 1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control. Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting sovereignty over their homelands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA multifaceted challenge to conventional histories, \u003ci\u003eAlaska Native Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e shares the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHolly Miowak Guise\u003c\/b\u003e (Iñupiaq) is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751238041888,"sku":"9780295752525","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ac7799ed1a638a5df854a2688dc467c2.webp?v=1779968360","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/alaska-native-resilience-voices-from-world-war-ii-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}