In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today exp
The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains,Slow rolling on.– Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc," 1816Glaciers in America’s far northwest figure prominently in indigenous or
Climate histories, colonial records, Aboriginal oral traditions from the Yukon and Alaska, and a personal fascination with the imaginative forces that glaciers exert on regional histories in northwest
Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professo
