book chapter
Back to the smoky sea
J. Messner, Inc. • New York • Published In 1946 • Pages:
By: Nutchuk, Hatch, Alden.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, known by the Eskimo name Nutchuk and the American name Simeon Oliver, was brought up in a mission home in Unalaska. He came to the United State to go to college and remained here. This is his second autobiographical work—the first 'Son of the Smoky Sea' covers his youth while the 'Back to the Smoky Sea' deals with his adult life in the United States and his war service with 'Castner's Cut-throats.' In 1938, he visited the Aleutian Islands and in Chapters 13 and 14 (pp. 123-152), he describes this visit. The sections of these chapters which supplement the information on the Aleuts are included. The source is of value primarily for its presentation of Aleut attitudes toward the United States and its policy in Alaska.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Conversation
- Music
- Dance
- Community heads
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 2: Fair
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Akutan and Unalaska Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Nutchuk, with Alden Hatch ; illustrated by Nutchuk
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46011912
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts