Illustrations
Introduction
A Note on Citation, Transliteration, and Translations
1. Masks and Matrioshkas: Memorabilia from Alutiiq Historiography
Whose Colorful Past Is It?
North American Historiography: East of the Cold War Border
Views From Across the Bering Strait
Placing Village Histories in Context: Nuchek and Geography
Villages and Communities
2. Village Locations and Colonial History: Map Essays
Map 1. Kodiak Island in 1805: Center of a Periphery
Map 2. Kodiak Island in 1830: Records to Supplement the Maps
Map 3. The Alutiiq Region in 1850: A Wider Picture
Map 4. Kodiak Island in 1850: After the Epidemic
Map 5. The Alutiiq Region in 1895: Competitive Fur Trade and Canneries
Map 6. The Alutiiq Region in 1930: After an Eruption and an Epidemic
3. Riddles of Colonial Rule: Fur Hunting for the Russians
Alutiiq Labor under the RAC
Alutiiq Society and the Power of the RAC
Legal and Practical Changes
Managing Labor Resources, Reorganizing Settlements
Separate Tasks for Separated People
4. From Mainstay to Auxiliary: Alutiiq Labor after the Sale of Alaska
The ACC and Its Rivals: Competitive Fur Trade
Canneries: A New Ethnic Division of Labor
Dispossessed Politics
5. Paper Villages: Statistical Categories and Social Life
Feudal and Racial Hierarchies: The Life of Legal Categories
Social Distinction and Biology: Evolving Ideas
Education: Bone of Contention
Statistics, Family, and Gender
Multiracial Society and Its Loose Endings
Conclusion: Contrast or Sequence?
Appendix: Selected Population Figures from Russian Orthodox Church and U.S. Census Sources
Kodiak Parish from the Clerical Registers, 1843-1895
Kodiak and Afognak Parishes, 1912/1910
Prince William Sound/Kenai Area, 1858-1910
Glossary
References
Index