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Alaska Native Resilience

Voices from World War II
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Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the Pacific War. The forced relocation and internment of Unangax? in 1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control. Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting sovereignty over their homelands. A multifaceted challenge to conventional histories, Alaska Native Resilience shares the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to colonialism.
Holly Miowak Guise (Inupiaq) is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
"Our American history needs continual revisiting and reevaluation, and Holly Miowak Guise has made an important contribution. She's shown that Alaska Natives, far from being passive participants in a war brought to them, actively protected their lands and cultures-leading to strengthened tribal connections and greater equality." (Anchorage Daily News) "A timely addition to the scholarly literature on the Pacific War [that] offers new, ethical, and intersectional ways of working with war memory, remembrance, archival absence, and Indigenous testimony." (Western Historical Quarterly)
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