Anooshi Lingit Aaní Ka­: Russians in Tlingit America: Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, also with Lydia Black

This major book on historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in the early 19th century is the 4th volume in the award-winning series, Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer. The book explores an era from the 1790s through 1818 when Russians expanded into Southeast Alaska to take control of the Northwest Coast fur trade. The Tlingit people resisted the incursion into their ancestral homeland and events culminated in two historic battles between the Russians and Tlingits in 1802 and 1804. At the heart of the book are never-before published recordings by the National Park Service of Tlingit elders telling oral histories of the battles. The recordings were made in the 1950s by Kiks.a­di elder Sally Hopkins and Kaagwaantaan elder Alex Andrews, who was a child of the Kiksaá­di. The book was conceived in the 1980s when Kiks.a­di elders asked the Dauenhauers to transcribe, translate, and publish the tapes, and the Sealaska Heritage Board approved the project. The Dauenhauers were able to compare the recordings to eye-witness accounts by Russians translated into English by Lydia Black, a scholar who worked on the book until her death in 2007. Published by Sealaska Heritage Institute in association with the University of Washington Press.