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Northern Athabascan survival : women, community, and the future
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Northern Athabascan survival : women, community, and the future

Author: Phyllis Ann Fast
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Northern Athabascan peoples of the Alaskan interior and the Yukon have survived centuries of contact and attempted domination by outsiders. Their lives today are rich in meaning and tradition yet are also complicated by numerous challenges such as poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, suicide, and troubled leadership." "Combining scholarly analysis, first-person accounts, and her own experiences and insights  Read more...
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Fast, Phyllis Ann, 1946-
Northern Athabascan survival.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2002
(OCoLC)605614966
Online version:
Fast, Phyllis Ann, 1946-
Northern Athabascan survival.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606924238
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Phyllis Ann Fast
ISBN: 0803220170 9780803220171
OCLC Number: 48810268
Description: xi, 304 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Contents: Map: The World of the Northern Athabascans --
1. Contemporary Life: Caustic Bonds --
2. Footprints: Metaphors of Place, Mobility, and History --
3. Rural Economy: Whose Addict Now? --
4. Leadership: Just One Mind --
5. Women: She Who Is Ravished --
6. What Does the Future Hold? Prognosis in Question --
7. Final Comments.
Responsibility: Phyllis Ann Fast.
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Combining scholarly analysis, first-person accounts, illuminates the modern Athabascan world.  Read more...

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schema:reviewBody""The Northern Athabascan peoples of the Alaskan interior and the Yukon have survived centuries of contact and attempted domination by outsiders. Their lives today are rich in meaning and tradition yet are also complicated by numerous challenges such as poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, suicide, and troubled leadership." "Combining scholarly analysis, first-person accounts, and her own experiences and insights as a Koyukon Athabascan artist and anthropologist, Phyllis Ann Fast illuminates the modern Athabascan world. Her conversations with Athabascan women offer revealing glimpses of their personal lives and a probing assessment of their professional opportunities and limitations. Also showcased is the crucial but ambiguous role of Athabascan leaders, who are needed to champion reform and social healing but are often undermined by conflicting notions of decision making, personhood, and leadership in Athabascan society." "A troubling observation of this study is the vast extent to which addiction - manifested as both substance abuse and economic dependency - pervades Northern Athabascan society and threatens to curtail its cohesion and aspirations. But Northern Athabascans are far from victims. As Fast discovers, Northern Athabascan men and women are well aware of these widespread social problems, and many have undertaken initiatives to deal with and heal them. Rigorous and compassionate, Northern Athabascan Survival provides an uncompromising view of a remarkable and troubled world."--BOOK JACKET."
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