TY - BOOK ID - 138722526 TI - Seventeen years in Alaska AU - Johnson, Albin AU - Ehrlander, Mary PY - 2014 SN - 1602232121 9781602232129 9781602232112 1602232113 PB - Fairbanks, AK DB - UniCat KW - Tlingit Indians KW - Missionaries KW - Missions KW - Social life and customs. KW - Johnson, Albin, KW - Travel KW - Svenska missionsförbundet KW - History. KW - Sweden. KW - Alaska KW - Alaska. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138722526 AB - 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 ER -