Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Lingit Kusteeyi: Tlingit Economy, Society, and Religion at the Time of Contact

2. Anooshi: The People “from Under the Horizon”

3. The Early Decades of Tlingit-Russian Interaction

4. The Tlingit and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1834-67: From the Smallpox Epidemic to the Sale of Alaska

5. The Early Decades of the Waashdan Kwaan Rule, 1867-85

6. The Massive Conversion to Orthodoxy during the Donskoi Era, 1886-95

7. Native Brotherhoods and the Further Development of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1895-1917

8. Village Orthodoxy: The Case of Killisnoo

9. Tlingit Orthodoxy as a Cultural System

10. The Difficult Years and the Survival of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1917-67

11. Tlingit Orthodoxy in a New Era, 1967-90s

12. Conclusion

Notes

Appendix

References

Index

About the Author

Sergei Kan is professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

"This extraordinary book…is a model of historical anthropology."
*American Historical Review*

“[Provides] a vivid picture of the engagements between the actors who together contributed to transforming Tlingit culture: the different Tlingit families, the Russian traders, Orthodox and Presbyterian missionaries, Russian and U.S. settlers, and Tlingit women and men.
*American Ethnologist*