Ultimate Americans
Point Hope Alaska, 1826-1909
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
“An account of the founding of Port Hope, an Iñupiat settlement in northwestern Alaska, [Ultimate Americans] is the most authoritative account of this community and one of the richer ethnohistorical accounts of the relationships between settlers and Iñupiat. . . . The study focuses on the life-histories of two individuals: Ataŋauraq, a mercurial Iñupiat leader, and John B. Driggs, a ‘bohemian’ missionary. . . . In between these two biographies, Lowenstein provides the reader with excellent chapters giving details of economic relations, the earlier history of contact, and the health and spiritual life of the local population.”
List of Illustrations
“Eskimo! White Man!”
Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Brief Chronology
Historical Characters
Missionaries at Point Hope
Spelling and Terminology
Pronunciation Guide
1. Introduction: First Encounters
2. Contact with the Chukchi and Europeans Up to 1854
3. The Alaska Purchase and the Russian Period
4. The U.S. Navy, the Alaska Commercial Company, and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
5. The Commercial Whale Hunt—1
6. The Commercial Whale Hunt—2
7. Jabbertown: Point Hope’s Shore-Based Whaling Station
8. Jabbertown: The Transformation of Point Hope’s South Shore
9. Atanauraq: Shaman, Trader, Point Hope’s “Chief”
10. Atanauraq and the White Man
11. Atanauraq and Charles Brower at Point Hope, 1884
12. How Atanauraq Was Assassinated
13. Disease in Alaska
14. Sheldon Jackson Takes on Alaska
15. The Search for Order
16. John B. Driggs: Medical Missionary to Point Hope
17. First School on the Arctic Coast
18. The Hidden John Driggs
19. Driggs: Consolidation in the Village, 1892-93
20. The Missionary Edson—Fear and Trembling
21. Sunny Teachings: Death and Resurrection
22. Disease in Point Hope and the Great Sickness
23. Millenarian Alaska: Return of the Spirits—1
24. Millenarian Alaska: Return of the Spirits—2
25. Drigg’s Homecoming, 1896
26. Driggs: The Final Years and Deposition
27. Reburying the Ancestors
Appendix A: The Point Hope and Jabbertown Census of 1908
Appendix B: The Point Hope Qalgi and Its Changes
Appendix C: Driggs and the Issue of Missionary Trading
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: General Anthropology
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