Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
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Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
Episode 1 Bonus - Settler Fantasies, Law & Logic with Tia Tidwell
The Alaska Myth
26 minutes
2 years ago
Episode 1 Bonus - Settler Fantasies, Law & Logic with Tia Tidwell
Today's special bonus episode of The Alaska Myth features an extended conversation with Tia Tidwell about her research on settler fantasies. Tia Tidwell is an Assistant Professor of Alaska Native Studies. She belongs to the Nunamiut people of Anaktuvuk Pass and currently resides on the lands of the Lower Tanana and Dené people. Tia holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her research focuses on the intersection of s...
The Alaska Myth
Is Alaska stuck in the myth of the big strike? On this week's bonus episode, we speak with Kathryn Morse, a professor at Middlebury College and author of The Nature of Gold: an Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush. I loved speaking with Kathryn because she is both incredibly knowledgeable about the Klondike Gold Rush, and an astute observer of how gold rush era myths inform Alaska's identity and politics today. We discuss the crisis in American identity that coincide...
