Lecture Title: Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II

Description: Book talk on the recently published Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II, a book that centers 90+ Alaska Native oral histories highlighting Indigenous perspectives on war related to Native internment/relocation, gender violence, Native military service, Alaskan homeland defense in the Pacific War, and Alaskan segregation.   

Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II focuses on gender, Unangax̂ (Aleut) relocation and internment camps, Native activism/resistance, and Indigenous military service during the war. Her research methods bridge together archives, tribal archives, community-based research, and oral histories with Alaska Native elders and veterans. She is interested in the colonial/Indigenous relationship during war and social history. She launched a digital humanities website (ww2alaska.com) that features her YouTube channel (World War II Alaska) with oral history content from Native elders, veterans, and Unangax̂ internment survivors.

Reception to follow at Draft & Table (UNM SUB)

Book Available for Purchase at Event

Co-Sponsored by: Department of History, IFAIR, and the Center for Southwest Research. 

Date: Sept 4, 2024

Time: 3:00-4:00PM, Reception to follow

Lecture Location:  Waters Room, Zimmerman Library

Reception Location: Draft & Table, UNM SUB

RSVP Link: https://forms.office.com/r/YNvcgTmwBr

Zoom Meeting link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/92284969919

FRI Website link: https://femresin.unm.edu/news-events/dr-holly-guise-talk.html