Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II Molalla Amik celebrates the history

Amik celebrates the history

including enslavement

We are all searching for belonging and a vision of the world that makes sense

and George Armstrong Custer

has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat

Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II Molalla Amik celebrates the historyAlaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of