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2006 Italluk Goes to Nigliq, Student Text and Teacher Guide.  Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2005 Time and Ptarmigan, Student Text and Teacher Guides. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2004 Alaska Studies: Semester Course for High School Students.  Anchorage: Anchorage School District (co-written with Terry Jorgensen)

2003 Immiugniq: Winter Sources of Drinking Water Curriculum and Student Books.  Barrow: North Slope School District.

2002 Making History: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Life on the Alaska Peninsula. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press (see book cover to the right).

1999 Alaska Native Writers, Orators, and Storytellers: Alaska Quarterly Review Special Issue (co-edited with Jeane Breinig). Anchorage: University of Alaska.

Articles and Chapters

2007 (in press) “The Power of Story: Arnaq Taqukaraam Pillra/The Woman Who Was Gotten by the Bear,” (Story by Ignatius Kosbruk; Commentary by Patricia Partnow; Transcription and translation by Jeff Leer) in Words of the Real People, ed. by Ann Fienup-Riordan and Lawrence Kaplan. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

2006 “Alutiiq Ethnicity” in Our Story: Readings from Southwest Alaska edited by John Branson and Tim Troll. Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association.

2005, "Inuit and Yupik Folklore in Canada and Alaska" in Encyclopedia of World Folklore, ed. by William M. Clements.  Greenwood Press (2005 publication expected).

2003 "Introduction" and "One by One: Communities Along the Railbelt" (the latter co-authored with Amy Craver and Cynthea Ainsworth) in Communities of Memory, ed. by Phyllis Morrow. Fairbanks: Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, Volume2, Number 1.

1999 "Ursine Urges and Urban Ungulates: Anchorage Asserts its Alaskanness" in Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 33-56.

1995 "The Days of Yore: Alutiiq Mythical Time" in When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon, ed. by Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Other Publications and Papers

2001 Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People: Tools for Teachers. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center and Arctic Studies Center (see book cover to the right).

2000-2001 www.akhistory.org: An Alaska Studies Web Site. Anchorage: Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Alaska Native Heritage Center.

1998 Alaska in Maps: A Thematic Atlas Teacher’s Guide. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education.

1997 Alaska: Spirit of the Wild Educational Guide (to accompany the IMAX film Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (see DVD cover to the right)). Houston: Houston Museum of Natural Science.

1996 Teaching with Historic Places: The Seal Islands. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation.

1995 Teacher’s Guide to Alaska: A Land in Motion. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education.

Recent Academic Papers

2005 "A Shaman Remembered," American Ethnohistory Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico (November).

2004 "Producing Classroom Materials and Website", American Association of Museums, New Orleans (May) and Museums Alaska, Anchorage (September).

2004 "Meaning-Making Across Time and Space: A Sugpiaq Oral Tradition Survives Two Centuries of Change, "Omohundro Conference, Northhampton, MA (June).

2004 "No Culture Left Behind: From Oral Tradition to the Classroom, "Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon (September).

2003 "Endings and Beginnings: The Story at Katmai", AAAS, Fairbanks and Anchorage (September and November).

2001 "Lore of Fishing," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage AK, October.

2001 "New Trade Winds: Stories as a Cultural Bridge," American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, St. Louis, May.

1998 "Post-Modernism in Alaska: Communities of Memory," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October.

1998 "Human Reactions to Catastrophic Relocations: Lessons of the Katmai Eruption and Other Disasters," Aleutian Research Consortium Meeting, Anchorage, March.

1998 "Issues in Translation: 200 Years in the Life of an Alutiiq Story," Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Anchorage, March.

1996 "Memory and Sense of Place in Alaska," Oral History Association, Philadelphia, October.

1996 "Ursine Urges and Urban Ungulates," Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Fairbanks, April.

1995 "Alutiiq Ethnogenesis," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November.

1995 "The Knik Watershed Storytelling Symposium: What Oral Traditions Say about the Community of Wasilla," Alaska Historical Society Annual Meeting, Kodiak, September.

 

 

 

 

 

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