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Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909 - Lowenstein, Tom
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The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate ...

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Ultimate Americans: Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909 2010, University of Alaska Press

ISBN-13: 9781602230385

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