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Attu : the forgotten battle / by Cloe, John Haile,author.; United States.Department of the Interior,issuing body.(CARDINAL)155655; United States.National Park Service.(CARDINAL)139282;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-188).The setting. Terrain ; Weather -- The islands and its history. Russian Period ; American purchase ; Attu Village, the last vestiges of the Aleuts in the Western Aleutians ; Strategic interest -- War comes to the Aleutians. The Midway-Aleutian Plan ; Occupied by the enemy ; Forced to leave, the Aleut ordeal ; Advance down the Aleutians ; Captives in Japan ; The Japanese reoccupation of Attu -- Decision to retake Attu. Planning ; Commitment ; The Japanese prepare -- Day of battle. May 11, Landings ; May 12-13, Stalemate in Massacre Valley, Success in Holtz Bay ; May 14, Failure in Jarmin Pass ; May 15, Relief of General Brown ; May 16-17, Holtz Bay taken, Jarmin Pass secured ; May 18, Transition to mountain warfare ; May 19-20, Clevesy Pass secured ; May 21-22, Sarana Nose and Prendergast Ridge captured ; May 23-25, Attack to take Holtz Bay-Chichagof Harbor Pass on Fish Hook Ridge ; May 26, Joe Martinez, Medal of Honor ; May 27-28, Buffalo Ridge taken ; May 29, Engineer Hill -- Aftermath. The costs ; Burying the dead ; The impact on Japan ; U.S. media coverage ; Lessons learned ; Lessons from Tarawa, a comparison -- Mission to the Kurils. Bridge to victory ; Attu as a major base -- Cold War and remembrance. Abandonment of the island ; You can't go home again, Repatriation of the Attu Aleuts ; Repatriation of remains ; Cold War ; The environmental legacy ; Designation as a historic landmark and valor in the Pacific Site Memorials ; Memorials -- Appendices. Geographical names, Battle of Attu ; Abbreviated census, Attu Village, 1940 ; Order of battle, Battle of Attu, American forces ; Order of battle, Battle of Attu, Japanese forces / by Ephriam D. Dickson III ; Order of battle, Battle of Attu, Japanese forces / by John Cloe ; Japanese weapons captured on Attu ; Memorials.
Subjects: Attu, Battle of, Alaska, 1943.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The seal wife : a novel / by Harrison, Kathryn.(CARDINAL)358322;
In 1915, 26-year-old Bigelow Greene is sent to establish a U.S. weather station in Anchorage, a primitive settlement where the sled dogs howl all night in the 20-hour-long winter darkness. Bigelow is asingle-minded man; he first becomes obsessed with the idea of building a huge kite to measure air temperature high in the atmosphere and thus enable long-range forecasting. But he's soon smitten with a woman the locals call the Aleut. She's mysterious, enigmatic, virtually mute sex between she and Bigelow is wordless and when he discovers that she's left Anchorage, Bigelow almost goes mad with longing. Eventually, he succumbs to the lure of another woman, Miriam Getz, the daughter of the storekeeper. She, too, is mute by choice, and she proves to be a demon, the very opposite of the self-contained Aleut. Bigelow is caught in her trap. As Harrison describes the black loneliness of winter and the mosquito-infested summer days, the mood grows darker and more suspenseful, emblematic of Bigelow's desolate psyche.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; Kites; Meteorological stations; Meteorologists; Mute persons;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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A night too dark [sound recording] / by Stabenow, Dana.; Gavin, Marguerite.(CARDINAL)341285;
Read by Marguerite Gavin.In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak's Park, they've been disappearing a lot lately. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it. Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin's workload has increased to where he doesn't make it home three nights out of four, the controversial mine has seduced Johnny and his classmates with summer jobs and divided the Ninilta Native Association, and a hostile environmental activist organization has embraced the Suulutaq Mine as their reason for being. It's almost a relief when Kate finds a body. This she can handle. Unitl the identity of the body vanishes, too.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Shugak, Kate (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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A schoolteacher in old Alaska : the story of Hannah Breece / by Breece, Hannah,1859-1940.; Jacobs, Jane,1916-2006.(CARDINAL)151753;
Includes bibliographical references and index."When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind. Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly. It is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Breece, Hannah, 1859-1940.; Indians of North America; Inuit; Teachers; Women teachers;
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American Indians and their federal relationship : plus a partial listing of other United States Indian groups. by United States.Bureau of Indian Affairs.(CARDINAL)143423;
American Indian tribes, bands, or groups are listed for which the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has definite responsibility. In addition, those that have been terminated from BIA services in recent years, and those recognized only for claims purposes, have been listed. Certain other categories are also shown. The basic listing is by state. Following the name of the state, which is given in alphabetical order, is the BIA agency that has immediate jurisdiction over Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut groups with its address. The BIA Area Office to which the agency reports is indicated. The tribes under the particular agency follow. Listed next are tribes in that state that do not receive BIA services. Throughout the booklet, a code number follows the name of each Indian group which indicates the status of each as of June 1972. The addresses of all of the Area Offices in the BIA are listed at the back of the booklet.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Federally recognized Indian tribes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A night too dark : a Kate Shugak novel / by Stabenow, Dana.(CARDINAL)378895;
In Alaska, people disappear every day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak s Park, they ve been disappearing a lot lately. Hikers head into the wilderness unprepared and get lost. Miners quit without notice at the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides leave farewell notes and vanish. Not only are Park rats disappearing at an alarming rate, but so is life in the Park as Kate knows it. Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin s workload has increased to where he doesn t make it home three nights out of four, the controversial mine has seduced Johnny and his classmates with summer jobs and divided the Niniltna Native Association the aunties are to a woman selling out and a hostile environmental activist organization has embraced the Suulutaq Mine as their reason for being. It s almost a relief when Kate finds a body. This she can handle. Until the identity of the body vanishes, too. In this latest Kate Shugak novel, the smart, sexy PI, her wolf/husky hybrid Mutt, and Chopper Jim are only just beginning to realize the fallout from the discovery of the world s second-largest gold mine in their backyard. Mine change everything,
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Shugak, Kate (Fictitious character); Shugak, Kate (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
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Voices of the winds : native American legends / by Edmonds, Margot,Author(DLC)n 80085585 ; Clark, Ella E.1896-1984Author(Ella Elizabeth),(DLC)n 80086204;
Includes bibliography (pages 360-364) and index.Learn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in Voices of the Winds. This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote, and Raven, as well as human-like characters "The Girl Who Married the Moon" and "Two Brothers Who Became Stars." Organized by region--with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, and Northeast--the legends are drawn from many tribes, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a variety of evocative line-art drawings. The stories include: *The Bridge of the Gods, Wasco *Raven's Great Adventure, Alaska *Song of the Horses, Navaho *Origin of Fire, Jicarilla-Apache *The Corn Ceremony, Hidatsa *The Great Serpent and the Great Flood, Chippewa-Ojibwa *The Origin of Earth, Tuskegee *The Legend of the Bear Family, Penobscot *The Origin of the Iroquois Nations, Iroquois Get to know the first peoples of North America through these stories from their rich oral traditions.
Subjects: Indians of North America;
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Art of the North American Indians : the Thaw collection / by Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)291161; Vincent, Gilbert Tapley,1946-editor.(CARDINAL)719248; Brydon, Sherry,1956-editor.(CARDINAL)432820; Coe, Ralph T.,editor.(CARDINAL)127809; Taylor, John Bigelow,photographer.(CARDINAL)197257; Davey, Charles.designer.(CARDINAL)423254; New York State Historical Association.(CARDINAL)154406;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-459).
Subjects: Catalogs.; Thaw, Eugene Victor; Thaw, Clare; Fenimore Art Museum (Cooperstown, N.Y.); Indian art;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Crossroads of continents : cultures of Siberia and Alaska / by Fitzhugh, William W.,1943-(CARDINAL)164221; Crowell, Aron,1952-(CARDINAL)327977; National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)(CARDINAL)137143;
Bibliography: pages 354-359.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Ethnology; Indians of North America; Eskimos;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science / by Ebbesmeyer, Curtis C.(CARDINAL)739029; Scigliano, Eric,1953-(CARDINAL)659844;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Marine debris.; Ocean currents.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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