Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804 - edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer and Lydia Black

A major book on historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in the early 19^th century. Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804, is the 4^th volume in the award-winning series, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature. The book explores an era from the 1790s through 1818 when Russians expanded into Southeast Alaska to take control of the Northwest Coast fur trade. The Tlingit people resisted the incursion into their ancestral homeland and events culminated in two historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in 1802 and 1804.

At the heart of the book are never-before published recordings by the National Park Service of Tlingit elders telling oral histories of the battles. The recordings were made in the 1950s by Kiks.ádi elder Sally Hopkins and Kaagwaantaan elder Alex Andrews, who was a child of the Kiks.ádi. The book was conceived 20 years ago when Kiks.ádi elders asked the Dauenhauers to transcribe, translate, and publish the tapes, and the Sealaska Heritage Board approved the project. The Dauenhauers were able to compare the recordings to eye-witness accounts by Russians translated into English by Lydia Black, a scholar who worked on the book until her death in 2007...(more)

Published by Sealaska Heritage Institute in association with the University of Washington Press.

Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 & 1804
Hardcover: $60.00
Paperback: $35.00

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