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Author Martin, Fredericka I

Title Before the storm : a year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942 / Fredericka Martin ; edited with supplemental material by Raymond Hudson
Published Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary From June of 1941 through the following summer, Fredericka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and Before the Storm draws from her personal accounts of that year and her research to present a fascinating portrait of a time and a people facing radical change. A government-ordered evacuation of all Aleuts from the island in the face of World War II, which Martin recounts in her journal, proved but the first step in a long struggle by native peoples to gain indepen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-375) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Martin, Fredericka I
Berenberg, Samuel R
SUBJECT Berenberg, Samuel R fast
Martin, Fredericka I. fast
Subject Aleuts -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Natural history -- Alaska -- Pribilof Islands
Seals (Animals) -- Alaska -- Pribilof Islands -- History -- 20th century
Medical care -- Alaska -- Pribilof Islands -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- General.
Aleuts -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Medical care
Natural history
Seals (Animals)
Travel
SUBJECT Pribilof Islands (Alaska) -- Description and travel
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) -- History -- 20th century
Saint Paul Island (Alaska) -- Biography
Subject Alaska -- Pribilof Islands
Alaska -- Saint Paul Island
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Hudson, Ray, 1943-
LC no. 2009035377
ISBN 9781602231030
1602231036