Publications

Books

In press Brooks River Ethnography. National Park Service. Anchorage.

2013 Sisualik of Piŋusugruk. Barrow: Iñupiaq Education Department. North Slope Borough School District.

2008 Adventures in Trading: A Graphic Novel (illustrated by Dan Miller). Barrow: Alaska Native Education Program, North Slope Borough School District.

2006 Italluk Goes to Nigliq, Student Text and Teacher Guide. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2005 Time and Ptarmigan, Student Text and Teacher Guides. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2004 Alaska Studies: Semester Course for High School Students. Anchorage: Anchorage School District (co-written with Terry Jorgensen)

2003 Immiugniq: Winter Sources of Drinking Water Curriculum and Student Books. Barrow: North Slope School District.

2002 Making History: Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Life on the Alaska Peninsula. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press (see book cover to the right).

1999 Alaska Native Writers, Orators, and Storytellers: Alaska Quarterly Review Special Issue (co-edited with Jeane Breinig). Anchorage: University of Alaska.

Articles and Chapters

2012 “Out of the Ashes: The Katmai Disaster,” in Alaska Park Science, Katmai Commemorative Issue. Volume 11, Issue 1.

2010 “The Brooks River Ethnographic Landscape: Preliminary Report and Recommendations for Further Research,” unpublished report prepared for the Katmai National Park and Preserve, National Park Service.

2008 "Bridges to the Community: Engaging Alaska Natives in Museum Programs" in The Proceedings of the 22nd International Abashiri Symposium.

2008 "Traditions Shape Past, Present, and Future for Alaska Natives" (with Perry Eaton) in Alaska 50: Celebrating Alaska's 50th Anniversary of Statehood 1959-2009. Faircount LLC.

2007 (in press) The Power of Story: Arnaq Taqukaraam Pillra/The Woman Who Was Gotten by the Bear, (Story by Ignatius Kosbruk; Commentary by Patricia Partnow; Transcription and translation by Jeff Leer) in Words of the Real People, ed. by Ann Fienup-Riordan and Lawrence Kaplan. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

2006 Alutiiq Ethnicity in Our Story: Readings from Southwest Alaska edited by John Branson and Tim Troll. Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association.

2005, "Inuit and Yupik Folklore in Canada and Alaska" in Encyclopedia of World Folklore, ed. by William M. Clements. Greenwood Press (2005 publication expected).

2003 "Introduction" and "One by One: Communities Along the Railbelt" (the latter co-authored with Amy Craver and Cynthea Ainsworth) in Communities of Memory, ed. by Phyllis Morrow. Fairbanks: Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, Volume2, Number 1.

1999 "Ursine Urges and Urban Ungulates: Anchorage Asserts its Alaskanness" in Western Folklore, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 33-56.

1995 "The Days of Yore: Alutiiq Mythical Time" in When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon, ed. by Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider. Logan: Utah State University Press.

Other Publications and Papers

2013 “Tools for Teachers,” Dena’inaq’ Huch’ulyeshi: The Dena’ina Way of Living: An Online Activity Guide to accompany the Anchorage Museum exhibition.

2013 Iñupiat Heritage Center Educator Catalog: Standards-Based School Programs at the Center. North Slope Borough Department of Iñupiaq History, Language, and Culture. Barrow.

2013 Simon Paneak Memorial Museum Educator Catalog: Standards-Based School Programs at the Museum. North Slope Borough Department of Iñupiaq History, Language, and Culture. Barrow.

2013 Alaska Studies: A High School Curriculum for the Lower Kuskokwim School District.

2011 Activity Guide for Teachers: Eagle Drums. An Integrated Social Studies/Language Arts unit for high school. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2011 Activity Guide for Teachers: ASRC-tkut Quliaqtuaat: ASRC's Story. A Multidisciplinary High School Curriculum; written with the assistance of Timothy Aqukkasuk Argetsinger. Anchorage: Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.

2011 Activity Guide for Teachers History of the Iñupiat: Nipaa Iitqusipta: The Voice of Our Spirit: A High School Social Studies Unit. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2010 The Duck-In Activity Guide for Teachers. A High School Social Studies and Language Arts Unit. Barrow: North Slope Borough School District.

2009 Adventures in Trading: A Sixth Grade Integrated Unit Based on the Nigliq Trade Fair with Activities in Social Studies, Language Arts, Inupiaq Language, Science, and Physical Education. Barrow: Alaska Native Education Program, North Slope Borough School District.

2008 Lingít Aaní Ka Kusteeyí: A High School Curriculum; Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Institute.

2007 "Reading and Study Guide for Dena'ina: Nat'uh, Our Special Place." Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center and Cook Inlet Tribal Council.

2006 Time and Ptarmigan Explorer Activity Guide (Science), Qargiq Activity Guide (Inupiaq language), and Storyteller Activity Guide (Language Arts): An Interdisciplinary Science and Language Arts Unit. Barrow: Alaska Native Education Program, North Slope Borough School District.

2004 Alaska Studies: A High School Graduation Course (co-authored with Terry Jorgensen; consists of 15 student books and a teacher's guide), Anchorage School District.

2003 Immiugniq: Winter Sources of Drinking Water Activity Guide for Teachers: An Interdisciplinary Science Unit. Barrow: Alaska Native Education Program, North Slope Borough School District.

2003 Immiugniq: Winter Sources of Drinking Water Inupiaq Language Lesson. Barrow: Alaska Native Education Program, North Slope Borough School District.

2002 The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change Instructional Guide, co-authored with Donna Matthews. Northampton: Smith College

2001 Looking Both Ways, Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People: Tools for Teachers. Anchorage: Alaska Native Heritage Center and Arctic Studies Center (see book cover to the right).

2000-2001 www.akhistory.org: An Alaska Studies Web Site. Anchorage: Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Alaska Native Heritage Center.

1998 Alaska in Maps: A Thematic Atlas Teachers Guide. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education.

1997 Alaska: Spirit of the Wild Educational Guide (to accompany the IMAX film Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (see DVD cover to the right)). Houston: Houston Museum of Natural Science.

1996 Teaching with Historic Places: The Seal Islands. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation.

1995 Teachers Guide to Alaska: A Land in Motion. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education.

Recent Academic Papers

2010 "Spreading the Word: Teaching TEK through the Internet." ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers" Annual Conference. Honolulu. October 2.

2009 "We Are All People on the Shore: Cultural Responses to Cataclysmic Change." Ocean Voices Series, Ocean Explorium, New Bedford, MA, July 21.

2008 "Using Cultural Information to Model DIME/PMESII Effects." Co-authored with Dean S. Hartley; keynote presentation at National Defense University Conference, Washington, D.C., July 23.

2008 "Stories are Serious Business." Chair and presenter. American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Denver, April 28.

2007 "Engaging Alaska Natives in Museum Programs." Abashiri Symposium on Peoples and Cultures of the North, Abashiri, Japan, November 3 and 4.

2007 "Bridges to the Community." Museums Alaska Annual Conference, Homer, Alaska, September

2006 "Exploring Culture Through Storytelling." National Council of Social Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December.

2005 "A Shaman Remembered," American Ethnohistory Association Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico (November).

2004 "Producing Classroom Materials and Website", American Association of Museums, New Orleans (May) and Museums Alaska, Anchorage (September).

2004 "Meaning-Making Across Time and Space: A Sugpiaq Oral Tradition Survives Two Centuries of Change, "Omohundro Conference, Northhampton, MA (June).

2004 "No Culture Left Behind: From Oral Tradition to the Classroom, "Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon (September).

2003 "Endings and Beginnings: The Story at Katmai", AAAS, Fairbanks and Anchorage (September and November).

2001 "Lore of Fishing," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage AK, October.

2001 "New Trade Winds: Stories as a Cultural Bridge," American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, St. Louis, May.

1998 "Post-Modernism in Alaska: Communities of Memory," American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October.

1998 "Human Reactions to Catastrophic Relocations: Lessons of the Katmai Eruption and Other Disasters," Aleutian Research Consortium Meeting, Anchorage, March.

1998 "Issues in Translation: 200 Years in the Life of an Alutiiq Story," Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Anchorage, March.

1996 "Memory and Sense of Place in Alaska," Oral History

Association, Philadelphia, October.

1996 "Ursine Urges and Urban Ungulates," Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Fairbanks, April.

1995 "Alutiiq Ethnogenesis," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November.

1995 "The Knik Watershed Storytelling Symposium: What Oral Traditions Say about the Community of Wasilla," Alaska Historical Society Annual Meeting, Kodiak, September.