Resources:

For their research projects, the instructor and students assembled the following bibliography

Primary Documents

Suzanne R. Bernardi,  “Whaling with Eskimos of Cape Prince of Wales.” The Courier Journal (October 20th, 1912): 1-12.

Wendell Ter Bush, “The Obvious in Esthetics. I,” Journal of Philiosophy 30:8 (April 13, 1933), 197-212

. . . . . . .”The Obvious in Esthetics.  II”  Journal of Philosophy 31:9 (April 27, 1933), 225-242.

Walter J. Hoffman, “The Graphic Art of the Eskimos: Based Upon the Collections in the National Museum” Annual Report of the United States National Museum for 1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896, 739-968.

Sheldon Jackson, Report on introduction of domesticated reindeer into Alaska with maps and illustrations, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890-1908.

Edward William Nelson, “Arts and manufactures: Drawing.” In The Eskimo about Bering Strait, 197-198. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900.

Kathleen Lopp Smith and Verbeck Smith, eds. Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.

Harrison R. Thornton, Among the Eskimos of Wales, Alaska 1890-93. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1931.

 

United States Census:  http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-3.pdf)

 

Sources on Inupiaq Culture and History
Barbara Bodenhorn, “‘People Who Are Like Our Books’: Reading and Teaching on the North Slope of Alaska,” Arctic Anthropology, Power, Resistance, and Security: Papers in Honor of Richard G. Condon, Steven L. McNabb, Aleksandr I. Pika, William W. Richards, Nikolai Galgauge, Nina Ankalina, Vera Rakhtilkon, Boris Mymykhtikak, and Nikolai Avanum, 34, no. 1 (1997): 117 – 134.

Ernest S. Burch, Alliance and conflict: the world system of the Inũpiaq Eskimos, University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

………..Burch, “Boundaries and Borders in Early Contact North-Central Alaska,” Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 35, No. 2, No Boundaries: Papers in Honor of James W. Vanstone (1998), pp. 19-48.

………..Burch, “Kotzebue Sound Eskimo.” In Arctic, edited by William C. Sturtevant. Washington :: Smithsonian Institution, 1978, 285-302.

…………Burch, Social life in northwest Alaska : the structure of Iñupiaq Eskimo nations. Fairbanks :: University of Alaska Press, 2006.

Norman A. Chance, The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska: an ethnography of development, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1990.

Nancy Fogel-Chance, “Fixing History: A Contemporary Examination of an Arctic Journal from the 1850s,” Ethnohistory 49:4 Fall 2002: 789-820.

Deanna M. Kingston, Lucy Tanaqiq Koyuk, and Earl Aisana Mayac. 2001. “The Story of the King Island Wolf Dance, Then and Now.” Western Folklore 60 (4):263-278. doi: 10.2307/1500408

Barbara Leibhart, “Among the Bowheads: Legal and Cultural Change on Alaska’s North Slope Coast to 1895.” Environmental Review 10 1986: 277-301.

Charles V. Lucier, “Traditional beluga drives of the Iñupiat of Kotzebue Sound,” in Alaska by James W. Van Stone, 1995. Chap. 7 and 8.

Edward William Nelson, “Feasts and Festivals: The “Inviting-In” Feast.” In The Eskimo about Bering Strait, Washington: Government Printing Office. 1900: 358.

Rathburn, R.R. “The Russian Orthodox Church as a Native Institution among the Koniag Eskimo of Kodiak Island.” Arctic Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1981): 12-21.

Dorothy Jean Ray, “Bering Straight Eskimo.” In Arctic, edited by William C. Sturtevant, 285-302. Washington :: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

………Ray, The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650 – 1898. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1975.

………Ray, “Schools and Missions.” In The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898, 205-225. Seattle :: University of Washington Press, 1975.

Catherine Swan Reimer, Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo, Greenwood Press 1999.

Jessica M. Shadian, The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty: Oil, Ice, and Inuit Governance. 1st ed. Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics. Routledge, 2014.

Pamela R. Stern, Historical dictionary of the Inuit. Lanham, Md. :: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Brian Swann, ed. “Inupiaq,” Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2004. 42-80

Lisa M. Wexler, “Learning Resistance: Inupiat and the US Bureau of Education, 1885 – 1906 – Deconstructing Assimilation Strategies and Implications for Today.” Journal of American Indian Education 45, no. 1 (2006): 17 – 34.

Sources on Inupiaq visual art and material culture
Buijs Cunera, Buijs and Jarich Oosten. “Continuity and Change in Arctic Clothing: an introduction.” In Braving the Cold: Continuity and Change in Arctic Clothing, edited by Buijs and Jarich Oosten Cunera. Leiden, The Netherlands: CNWS Publications, 1997.

Susan W. Fair, “Early Western Education, Reindeer Herding, and Inupiaq Drawing in Northwest Alaska: Wales, the Saniq Coast, and Shishmaref to Cape Espenberg” in Suzi Jones, ed. Eskimo Drawings. Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2003.

……….Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006.

Hans Himmelheber, Eskimo Artists. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1993.

 

Nelson H.H. Graburn and Molly Lee. Commerce and Curios: The Alaska Commercial Company, 1868-1904. Berkeley: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 1986.

Graburn, Lee, and Jean-Loup Rousselot. Catalogue Raisonné of the Alaska Commercial Company Collection. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Betty Issenman, Sinews of survival : the living legacy of Inuit clothing. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997.

Anne M. Jensen, “The Material Culture of Iñupiat Whaling: An Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspective.” Arctic Anthropology 49 (2) 2012:143-161.

Jones, Suzi. Eskimo Drawings. Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2003.

J.C.H. King, “Introduction,” In Arctic Clothing of North America – Alaska, Canada, Greenland, edited by J.C.H. King, Birgit Pauksztat, and Robert Storrie, Montreal and Kingston: Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press, 2005, 12-23.

Molly C. Lee, Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Museum, 1999.

Mary Malloy,  Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners 1788-1844. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Cydney Brynn Martin, “Caribou, Reindeer and Rickrack: Some Factors Inlfuencing Cultural Change in Northern Alaska, 1880-1940.” In Arctic Clothing of North America – Alaska, Canada, Greenland, edited by J.C.H. King,

David Mollett, “Rendering the Arctic: Artistic Considerations in the Eskimo Graphic Arts.” In Suzi Jones, Eskimo Drawings. Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2003.

Birgit Pauksztat, and Robert Storrie, 121-126. Montreal and Kingston: Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
Martin, “Mediated identity and negotiated tradition: The Inupiaq atigi, 1850–2000.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2001.

Dorothy Jean Ray, “Happy Jack and Guy Kakarook: Their Art and Their Heritage,” in Suzi Jones, ed., Eskimo Drawings, Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2003, 18-33.

Maria von Finckenstein, Nuvisavik: The Place Where We Weave. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

James W. VanStone, “The Bruce Collection of Eskimo Material Culture from Port Clarence, Alaska.” Fieldiana Anthropology 67. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976: 1-117.

 

Sources on Inupiaq music and dance

Susan W. Fair, “The Inupiaq Eskimo Messenger Feast: Celebration, Demise, and Possibility.” The Journal of American Folklore 113, no. 450 (2000): 473.

Berit Arnestad Foote, “The Tigara Eskimoes and Their Environment,” North Slope Borough Iñupiat History, Language and Culture Commission. 1992

Hiroko Ikuta, “Iñupiaq Pride: Kivgiq (Messenger Dance) on the Alaska North Slope”, Inuit Studies 31-2, (2007): 343-364

George Phebus Jr., “Sociocultural Activities: Ceremonials.” In Alaskan Eskimo Life in the 1890s as Sketched by Native Artists, Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press, 1972: 107-114.

Tupou Pulu, Thomas F. Johnston, Ruth Ramoth Sampson, and Angeline Newlin, Iñupiat Aġġisit Atuutiŋich: Iñupiat Dance Songs, Anchorage, University of Alaska 1979.

Thomas Riccio, “Message from Eagle Mother: The Messenger’s Feast of the Inupiat Eskimo.” TDR 37 (1993): 115-146.

Edith Turner, “Style and the Double Mind in Inupiat Eskimo Traditional Performance.” Performing Arts Journal 14 (1992): 87-102.

Maria Del Pilar Williams, “Alaska Native music and dance: The spirit of survival.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.

Theoretical approaches to decolonizing art histories
Janet Catherine Berlo, “Drawing (upon) the Past: Negotiating Identities in Inuit Graphic Arts Production,” in Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, Eds Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher Burghard Steiner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, 178-195.

……….Berlo, “Inuit Women and Graphic Arts: Female Creativity and its Cultural Context.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies IX (1989): 293-315.

……….Berlo, “Portraits of Dispossession in Plains Indian and Inuit Graphic Arts.” Art Journal 49 (1990): 133-141.

Sharon Bohn Gmelch, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Elizabeth W. Hutchinson The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art 1890-1915 (Duke University Press, 2009)

Ruth B. Phillips, Ruth B. “Making Sense Out/Of the Visual: Aboriginal Presentations and Representations in Nineteenth-Century Canada.” Art History 27 (2004): 593-615

Ann Bobby Starnes, “What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Them: White Teachers, Indian Children.” The Phi Delta Kappan 87 (2006): 384-392.

Stevenson, Lisa. “Introduction,” in Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, 1-18.

Charlotte Townsend-Gault, “The Raven, the Eagle, the Sparrows, and Thomas Crow: “Making Native Modernism on the Northwest Coast” in Essays on Native Modernism, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2006, 89-101.

Web Resources:
McCord Museum’s overview of Inuit clothing:

From the National Geographic reality TV show on the Inupiaq called Life Below Zero:

Very informal but interesting interviews:

begin at 3:45- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB0ZaQnx3q0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw4vtVUtw6w (this one is my favorite)

on language, song, and education for Inupiaq children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIc8l7Xa5pE

Inupiaq rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGufWCkswQ

Evon Peter, “The Colonization of Alaska Natives.” University of Anchorage, Alaska. Accessed March 24, 2015. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/books-of-the-year/year08-09/upload/Evon-20Peter-20The-20Colonization-20of-20Alaska-20Natives.pdf

“Alaska Native Language Center | Inupiaq.” Alaska Native Language Center | Inupiaq. University of of Alaska Fairbanks, 1 Jan. 2007. Web. 11 Nov. 2012. <http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/languages/i/>

https://inupiaqeskimo.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/creation/