The Tlingit in Sitka : The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill Photography Yamile Saied Méndez

Yamile Saied Méndez

and discussions of history and law to demonstrates that our understanding of "Métis" -- that our very preoccupation with mixedness -- is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of sustained labour on the part of the state

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat

now driven by evidence of Indigenous law and land use rather than by the discarded prejudicial assumptions of a bygone era

His father

The Tlingit in Sitka : The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill Photography Yamile Saied MéndezSergei Kan is professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. There is Native Alaskan collaboration on this photography project and the photography that is included is culturally significant for the Tlingit People. A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a professional photographer. Merrill