Etok:
A Story of Eskimo Power
by Hugh Gregory
Gallagher
ISBN
978-0-918339-59-1| Paper | 272 pp |
5 1/2 x 8 1/2|Illustrated |Acid
Free Paper | Index $16.95
Etok is a contradiction
in terms -- wild-eyed and mystic, by turns incredibly rudeand terribly
vulnerable, but always politically astute. He is both a product of
hisown ancient culture and a prophet of our times. Etok is the only
book whichgives an account -- from the Alaska Native point-of-view --
of how AlaskaNatives organized and fought to obtain the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act.As such, it is a valuable part of Alaska history.
It is a story that should makeevery Native American proud. Unavailable
for 20 years, this biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), anEskimo
radical, is the story of the struggle to protect Alaska Native land
rightsand way of life in the face of the relentless onslaught of
Western culture. A mustfor all Native American collections.…
…As the first account of the
development of "Eskimo Power" and their vast land reclamation, Etok
is a particularly important book.
Christian Science Monitor
…an important book for those
concerned with the plight of the Indian and with the effects the Alaska
pipeline
will have on native cultures and lands.
Library Journal
About the author…
The author served
in the Johnson
White House and as a Senate staffer. His books include:
Nothing to Fear: FDR
in Photographs); the internationally acclaimed Roosevelt
biography, FDR's
Splendid Deception, 3rd
Edition Black Bird Fly Away:
Disabled in an Able-bodied World; By Trust
Betrayed:
Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich,
2nd
Edition; and Advise and Obstruct:
The Role of the United
States Senate in Foreign Policy Decisions, a Pulitzer Prize
Nominee. His
articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington
Post, People, and
other publications.
