Of Subjection and Sovereignty: Alaska Native Corporations and Tribal Governments in the Twenty-First Century
- T. Swensen
- Political Science
- 29 July 2015
The Monument: The anchorage scene as colonial history
- T. Swensen
- HistoryPUNK! Las Américas Edition
- 23 September 2021
The Strong Current and Alutiiq Cultural History
- T. Swensen
- History
- 1 September 2016
Cama'i America: Alaska Natives, Narrative, and the Spaces of Empire
- T. Swensen
- History
- 2011
The word cama'i in the title, pronounced cha-my, is the Alutiiq word for hello. Given that in the nineteenth-century Alutiiqs, working in California, passed the word on to Kashaya speaking Pomo whom…
Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo National Heavy Metal Scene. By Ashkan Soltani-Stone and Natale A. Zappia
- T. Swensen
- LinguisticsThe Western historical quarterly
- 2 August 2021
Blackfish Lessons on Environmental Sustainability, Food, and Indigenous Culture
- T. Swensen
- Art
- 11 September 2017
This essay, “Blackfish Lessons on Environmental Sustainability, Food, and Indigenous Culture,” examines Yup’ik interventions into understanding the place of human-nonhuman animal relations in regard…
The Relationship between Indigenous Rights, Citizenship and Land in Territorial Alaska: How the Past Opened the Door to the Future
- T. Swensen
- Political Science
- 20 August 2015
On 4 March 1944 the Alaskan newspaper the Nome Nugget published an editorial written by sixteen-year-old local Inupiat Alberta Schenck. In her letter she publically voiced how many Alaska Natives…
Forever Crossing Over: At the Intersection of John T. Williams's Life and Memorial
- T. Swensen
- Art
- 1 December 2015
In 2010, Seattle police officer Ian Birk shot master carver John T. Williams, a hearing-impaired Nuu-chah-nulth artist, four times as he walked down a city sidewalk. Birk initially claimed that…