"In association with the Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center."

"Companion volume to the exhibition of the same name opening at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, May 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Native perspectives on Alaska's history / Paul C. Ongtooguk and Claudia S. Dybdahl -- The first peoples of Alaska : a path to self-determination / Rosita Worl -- Iñupiaq / Beverly Faye Hugo. First seal hunt / Paul Asicksik Jr. -- St. Lawrence Island Yupik / Paapi Merlin Koonooka. Sleeping memories / Jonella Larson White -- Yup'ik / Alice Aluskak Rearden. Ellam Yua--person of the universe / Marie Meade -- Unangax̂ / Alice Petrivelli. Return of the dance / Crystal Dushkin -- Sugpiaq / Gordon L. Pullar. Sugpiaq masks / Sven Haakanson Jr. -- Athabascan / Eliza Jones. Dena'ina Anchorage / Aaron Leggett -- Tlingit / Rosita Worl. Clan knowledge / Ricardo Worl -- Haida / Jeane Breinig. Haida history and art / Delores Churchill -- Tsimshian / David Boxley. Herring eggs / Karla Booth -- Collaborative conservation of Alaska Native objects at the Smithsonian / Landis Smith, Michele Austin-Dennehy, and Kelly McHugh -- Alaska Native collections at the Smithsonian / Aron C. Crowell, Landis Smith, and Kelly McHugh.