Art and Eskimo Power

The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock

von Lael Morgan

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

At Howard Rock's birth, a shaman predicted that he would become a great man. Born in 1911 in a sod igloo in Point Hope, an ancient Eskimo village, Howard became an accomplished artist and crusading newspaper editor who helped to defend his people from a controversial Atomic Energy Commission proposal to excavate a harbor near his native village with an atomic blast. Art and Eskimo Power chronicles the life of this influential and artist, editor, and founder of the Tundra Times--under whose leadership the newspaper helped to organize Alaska's native people to press their aboriginal land claims before Congress, which ultimately led to their being awarded over $1 billion and 40 million acres.

• Reihe: University of Alaska Press
• ISBN: 9781602230217
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2008
• Größe: 229 x 149 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of U of Alaska Press