Alaska Place Names

Author : Donald J. Orth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Alaska Place Names written by Donald J. Orth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each entry conforms to principles of U.S. Board on Geographic Names and lists location, brief history and meaning of name.

Author : Alan Edward Schorr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Place Names written by Alan Edward Schorr and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical listing of the names of natural features in Alaska. A paragraph cites the location and the origin of each name. Does not include towns or settlements. The "index" is a cross-reference of alternative names.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Alaska Place Names written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Geographic Names written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James W. Phillips
Publisher : Epicenter Press
ISBN 13 : 1941890032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska-Yukon Place Names written by James W. Phillips and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic history-filled names have long fired the imagination of every reader and visitor to the Northland. In Alaska-Yukon Place Names, author James W. Phillips takes the vacationing tourist, historian, and armchair traveler through the most memorable places in the Alaska-Yukon region. Since the most popular routes north to Alaska and the Yukon are the Marine Highway and the Alaska Highway through Canada, the entries of Alaska-Yukon Place Names include ghost towns, islands, waterways, mountains, and glaciers in northern British Columbia. Whether more interested in the scenery, the historic past, or the fabulous yarns connected with the area, you will be delighted by the colorful towns of Alaska and the Yukon: Poorman, Shaman’s Village, Chicken and Eek, and will have no trouble imagining the mettle of those pioneers who traveled Moose Pass, shot Squaw Rapids, or panned in Pure Gold Creek.

Author : Tom Duncan
Publisher : [Fairbanks] : Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska
ISBN 13 : 9780937592007
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Place Names Pronunciation Guide written by Tom Duncan and published by [Fairbanks] : Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas F. Thornton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295992174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haa Léelk'w Hás Aaní Saax'ú written by Thomas F. Thornton and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haa Leelk'w Has Aan' Saaxu / Our Grandparents' Names on the Land presents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida, and other Native names on the land, it highlights their descriptive force and cultural significance. With community maps, tables, and photographs, this book will be invaluable for those seeking to understand Alaska Native geographic perspectives. As Tlingits from the Hoonah Indian Association explain in the book: "Long before Russian, French, Spanish, and British explorers mapped and named the mountains and bays of the Huna Tlingit homeland, we identified special places in our own vibrant, descriptive ways. Tlingit place names reflect important natural resources, ancestral stories, sacred places, and major geological and historic events. Our place names describe more than just inanimate locations for we perceive the mountains, glaciers, and streams to be as alive and aware as ourselves. Rather, they capture the history, emotions, and stories of our enduring relationship with a living, evolving landscape." "The new benchmark against which all future work will be measured." -Richard Dauenhauer, author of Russians in Tlingit America "Thomas Thornton and his Tlingit colleagues show how 'grandparents' names on the land' provide exquisite scaffolding for human ecologies in North America's far northwest--a moral universe inhabited by a community of beings in constant communication and exchange. This book will be a resource for the ages." -Julie Cruikshank, author of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination "Restoring Tlingit placenames and their meanings will root our people back in place and decolonize the landscape, and Thornton has provided us with a fundamental tool to do exactly that. Sh t--oghaa xhat ditee--I am grateful." -Lance A. Twitchell, Xh'unei, University of Alaska Southeast Thomas F. Thornton is senior research fellow and director of the Environmental Change and Management Program at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford He is the author of Being and Place among the Tlingit.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Alaska Geographic Names Alphabetical Finding List written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetical listing of Alaska geographic names. Includes name, feature class, coordinate, elevation (feet), extent of feature, year of pertinent decision by U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and number of map covering area in which feature appears.

Author : Otto Robert Landelius
Publisher : Carbondale : Published for the Swedish-American Historical Society [by] Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swedish Place-names in North America written by Otto Robert Landelius and published by Carbondale : Published for the Swedish-American Historical Society [by] Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than 1,000 Swedish-American place-names found by Otto Robert Landelius provide hard evidence of a dis­tinct Swedish flavor permeating the map of North America. The combined aim of the author, the translator, and the editor has been to identify and document as comprehen­sively as possible those place-names in the United States and Canada that di­rectly or indirectly originate from place-names in Sweden, from Swedish people, or from Swedish culture. Landelius re­corded not only the place-name and its location but also supplied information concerning the development of various places and persons connected with them. The result is a generous sampling of Swedish cultural history on North American soil.

Author : Terry N. Tobias
Publisher : Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chief Kerry's Moose written by Terry N. Tobias and published by Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... A guidebook to land-use and occupancy mapping, research design and data collection -- into Chinese. Indigenous peoples as far away as Australia are using the reference book. "We adopted the approach that is outlined in this guidebook, and built an inventory of quality information about our historical uses of Tsleil-Waututh territory," says Chief Leonard George. "The resulting maps and documentation are benefiting our negotiations for co-management of traditional lands, and helping us build the relationships and understanding required for the protection of our Aboriginal title and rights. Our land use maps are thus aiding in the survival and growing strength of our nation, and will benefit future generation." Written by Terry Tobias, the book was published by Ecotrust Canada and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal leaders and researchers across Canada about the poor quality of land-use and occupancy maps, and the absence of instructional materials in the field. "Chief Kerry's Moose is an excellent learning tool for First Nation's environmental and cultural staff who may wish to interview Elders and other experts about Innu life on the land," says Richard Nuna, Manager of Environment, Culture and Conservation for the Innu Nation."--from pub. website.