Oct
6
7:00 PM19:00
History from Dogsled: The Yukon and the Stakes of Telling the Past
This talk looks at the intertwined, co-dependent lives of people, dogs, and salmon along the nineteenth century Yukon for examples of how to tell more capacious, polyvocal narratives—and the stakes of doing so for and about Alaska, a place where the politics of who speaks the past has bearing on present conflicts over land, meaning, and the possibilities of the future.