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|  | | A Century of Servitude: Pribilof Aleuts under U.S. Rule
In the course of preparing a report on the U.S. government's operation of the seal industry on the remote Pribilof Islands, Alaska, I discovered a century-long history of hidden internal colonialism. To advance its interest in running a profit-making seal industry on the islands, the government controlled virtually every aspect of the Pribilof Aleuts' lives( on whose labor it depended), from the time they went to bed to freedom of movement from and to the islands. With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, I converted the report into a book. Chapter Two appears below.
The entire book can be read on my website www.dorothyjones.net
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Century of Servitude Chapter 2. The Reign of the Treasury Agent, 1870-1889 At Congressional hearings in 1888 to investigate the Alaska Commercial Company, Treasury Department agents repeatedly asserted their sovereignty over the Pribilof Aleuts. Here are some examples. I am the representative of the Government.... The agents have absolute control of the natives.... The Government Agents are required to see that the natives are kept in subjection* [emphases added] and that they perform their duties toward the lessee.1 The Government agent is a sovereign there and his word is law.2 I issued a | |  | | Aleuts in Transition: A Comparison of Two Villages
Aleuts in Transition is based on a study of two Aleut villages that show strikingly different responses to contact with the larger American society. The introduction and an excerpt from Chapter 1 appear below.
The book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
Excerpt from Chapter I NEW HARBOR(pseudonym) NEW HARBOR is a remote fishing village on the Alaska Peninsula. Traveling there on a crab boat, I was awed by the fairyland before me on that clear winter night. A sand spit, flanked by a bay and a lake, twinkled with the lights from houses lining the beach. We moored at the dock crowded with other fishing boats-gill netters, purse seiners and crab vessels—many of which were locally owned. Carrying my luggage along the dock, I passed the holdings of the fish-processing company that has operated continuously since the village was settled in | |  | | Rachel, A Medieval Tale
Set in a small town in 13th century England, RACHEL weaves a story of a powerful and enduring bond between three women--a Jewish money lender, a daughter of the overlord of the nearby manor, and an escaped serf from that manor. The friendships started during their childhoods. What follows is an incredible story of how, against all odds--the rigid separation of Jew and Gentile, of nobility and the lower classes; their communities at war--these three courageous girls become women whose lives are both enriched and complicated by their enduring friendship. The book has not yet been published. The first five chapters appear below. The entire manuscript can be found on my website
www.dorjones.net/Books
Chapter One appears below.
Rachel, A Medieval Tale CHAPTER ONE Dornfield, England Summer 1241 At dawn, Rivkah died; I mean everyone said she died. But she couldn’t be dead. I wasn’t dead and she and I couldn’t be parted. We were twins, alike in nearly every way— tall and skinny, and aside from a tiny rose-colored birthmark on Rivkah’s brow, the same snub noses, black eyes, and mops of springy black hair that Agnes, our caretaker, had to tame with tonic. Being nearly identical, I was baffled a few days before when Rivkah’s bleeding started and mine didn’t. I | |  | | Tatiana
TATIANA is a tale about a remarkable Aleut woman(known as the chief of all the Aleuts) as she, her family, and her village struggle against the erosion of their culture, including their World War II internment in an abandoned salmon cannery in a part of Alaska remote and alien to their experience. The book is set in an Aleut village with a small but powerful population of whites. It covers the years 1938-1945, a period when change accelerated at breakneck speed. The drama of the interactions with each other and with whites reveals not only the external aspects but the interior of their lives--their thoughts, beliefs, tensions, conflicts, and aspirations. It also highlights the powerful but oft
The first three chapters of the book appear below.
The book is available for sale at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
span style="font-family: Arial">CHAPTER ONE When I wake in the morning, first thing, I listen to the sa. If I hear the water quietly licking the sand, I know it's a fine day for washing clothes in the creek or fishing and gathering clams and mussels on the beach. But if I hear waves crashing on the shore, I know a storm is here or coming. That was the sound that greeted me this morning. Too bad. I wanted to catch some sculpin and pogy for my thirty-eighth name day dinner. Well, I was used to storms. There was plenty of inside work to do. We sisterhood women were weaving new grass mats for | |  | | When Shadows Fell
WHEN SHADOWS FELL dramatizes the struggles of a young American woman as she chooses to express her ideals by joining the Communist Party in the early 1950s at the height of McCarthyism. Chapter 1 appears below.
The book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
CHAPTER 1 February 1950 "Is it time, is it time?" my four-year-old daughter, Beth, asked every few minutes. It was the day before her brother David's seventh birthday, and we were eagerly awaiting his return from school to shop for party favors. Finally, hearing David's hurried footsteps on the porch, she whooped, "He's here." But something was wrong. Without a greeting, David rushed past us and moments later I heard choking and strangling sounds coming from the bathroom. I ran to him, Beth at my heels. He was hugging the toilet, gasping for air while vomit shot out of h |
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Cemetery Island
by Mr. Ed
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 Sometimes, vacations just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. An idyllic wilderness house boating get-a-way soon turns into a hellish nightmare... |
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