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"For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women's resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S'eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women's artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast"--

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In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations. By weighing the one body of evidence against the other, he has reevaluated this history, arriving at a persuasive new concept of "converged agendas"-the view that the Tlingit and the Russians tended to act in mutually beneficial ways but for entirely different reasons throughout the period of their contact with one another. The Russian-American Company began operations in southeastern Alaska in the 1790s. Against a description of Tlingit culture at the time of the Russians' arrival, Kan examines Russian Orthodox theology, ritual practice, and missionary methods, and the Tlingit response to them. An uneasy symbiosis characterized the early era of the Russian-American Company, when the trading relationship outweighed any spiritual or social rapprochement. A second, major focus of Kan's study is the Tlingit experience with American colonial domination. He attributes a sudden revival of Tlingit interest in Orthodoxy in the 1880s as their attempt to maintain independence in the face of concerted efforts by the newcomers (and especially Presbyterian missionaries) to Americanize them. Memory Eternal shows the colonial encounter to be both a power struggle and a dialogue between different systems of meaning. It portrays Native Alaskans not as helpless victims but as historical agents who attempted to adjust to the changing reality of their social world without abandoning fundamental principles of their precolonial sociocultural order or their strong sense of self-respect.

Tlingit Indians --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion. --- Missions --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Sitka (Alaska) --- Social life and customs.

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Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yakutat, he found himself in a wave of foreign arrivals as migrants poured into Alaska seeking economic opportunities and the chance at a different life. While Johnson came with pious intentions, others imposed Western values and vices, leaving disease and devastation in their wake.Seventeen Years in Alaska is Johnson's eyewitness account of this tumu

Tlingit Indians --- Missionaries --- Missions --- Social life and customs. --- Johnson, Albin, --- Travel --- Svenska missionsförbundet --- History. --- Sweden. --- Alaska --- Alaska.

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"Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. This volume focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Tlingit language, traditional cultural knowledge, and history from an activist Tlingit perspective. Sharing Our Knowledge also highlights a variety of collaborations between Native groups and individuals and non-Native researchers, emphasizing a long history of respectful, cooperative, and productive working relations aimed at recording and transmitting cultural knowledge for tribal use and promoting Native agency in preserving heritage. By focusing on these collaborations, the contributors demonstrate how such alliances have benefited the Tlingits and neighboring groups in preserving and protecting their heritage while advancing scholarship at the same time"-- "An edited volume of interdisciplinary, collaborative research on Tlingit culture, language, and history"--

HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-). --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- Indians of North America --- Tlingit art. --- Tlingit Indians --- Koloshi Indians --- Koluschan Indians --- Lingít Indians --- Thlinket Indians --- Thlinkithen Indians --- Tlinkit Indians --- Art, Tlingit --- Art, American --- Art, Canadian --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Languages. --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- Art --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Pacific Coast (North America) --- West Coast (North America) --- Western Coast (North America) --- Ethnic relations.

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"In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of coming back to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and in some ways more interesting question: once the exile returns, then what? Using motifs from the story Raven and the Box of Daylight to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Now seventy years old and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the possibilities and complications of her Native community --

Tlingit Indians --- Tlingit women --- Women college teachers --- Homecoming --- Koloshi Indians --- Koluschan Indians --- Lingít Indians --- Thlinket Indians --- Thlinkithen Indians --- Tlinkit Indians --- Indians of North America --- Coming home --- Home-coming --- Travel --- Women as college teachers --- College teachers --- Women in higher education --- Women teachers --- Women, Tlingit --- Women --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Hayes, Ernestine, --- Alaska --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ --- AK --- Alaasika --- ʻĀlaka --- Alasca --- Alasijia --- Alasijia Zhou --- Alaska Eyâleti --- Alaska osariik --- Alasḳah --- Alasko --- Alaszka --- Ali︠a︡sk --- Ali︠a︡ska --- Aljaška --- Allaesŭkʻa --- Allaesŭkʻa-ju --- Allaesŭkʻaju --- Alyaska --- Alyaska Shitati --- Arasuka --- Arasuka-shū --- Arasukashū --- Civitas Alascae --- Estado de Alaska --- Estado ng Alaska --- Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo --- Medinat Alasḳah --- Politeia tēs Alaska --- Russian America --- Russkai︠a︡ Amerika --- Shtat Ali︠a︡ska --- State of Alaska --- Statul Alaska --- Territory of Alaska --- Πολιτεία της Αλάσκα --- Αλάσκα --- Аљаска --- Аляск --- Аляска --- Алјаска --- Русская Америка --- Штат Аляска --- אלאסקע --- אלסקה --- מדינת אלסקה --- アラスカ --- アラスカ州 --- 阿拉斯加 --- 阿拉斯加州 --- 알래스카 --- 알래스카 주 --- 알래스카주 --- Alaska Territory --- Women college teachers. --- Tlingit women. --- Tlingit Indians. --- Homecoming. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Social life and customs --- Hayes, Ernestine --- Alaska. --- Â-lâ-sṳ̂-k --- Ali͡ask --- Ali͡aska --- Arasuka-sh --- Arasukash --- Russkai͡a Amerika --- Shtat Ali͡aska