Etok:
A Story of Eskimo Power
by Hugh Gregory Gallagher
ISBN
0-918339-59-6 978-0-918339-59-1* Paper * 272 pp
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 * Illustrated * Acid
Free Paper * Index $16.95
This is the biography of Charles
Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskimo radical. It is the story of the struggle to
protect Alaska Native land rights and way of life in the face of the relentless
onslaught of Western culture. Etok is a contradiction in terms -- wild-eyed and
mystic, by turns incredibly rude and terribly vulnerable, but always politically
astute. He is both a product of his own ancient culture and a prophet of our
times. Etok is the only book which gives an account -- from the Alaska
Native point-of-view -- of how Alaska Natives 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 make every Native American proud.
…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.
