This third volume in a series on "Point Hope, Alaska", "Ultimate Americans" examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Alaska Native, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle, "Ultimate Americans" will be invaluable reading for historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike.
- ISBN10 1602230277
- ISBN13 9781602230279
- Publish Date 1 March 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Alaska Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781602230279