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Article: Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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LOOKING BOTH WAYS: HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF THE ALUTIIQ PEOPLE. Edited by ARON L. CROWELL, AMY F. STEFFIAN, and GORDON L. PULLAR. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. xii + 265 p., colour and b&w illus., maps, glossary, bib., index. Hardbound, US$49.95; Softbound, US$24.95.
The Alutiiq occupy Kodiak Island and the southern Alaskan mainland. In the 200 plus years since the earliest contact with Europeans, this area has experienced multiple and complex incursions. In the 20th century, new arrivals (Europeans and fishing peoples from the world over) came to greatly outnumber the original inhabitants and to control the wealth of the surrounding waters. A side ...