Alaska's indigenous peoples have used various forms of mass media and
community media for purposes of cultural expression, self-determination,
and political resistance. Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James
elegantly reveal how newspapers, radio stations and television programs
became strategic sites of Native resistance to the economic and cultural
agendas of non-Native settlers.
Using six empirically grounded studies, the authors demonstrate that
freedom for indigenous peoples is not only premised on control over
their political economy, but also on their capacity to tell their own
stories. In so doing, Alaska's indigenous peoples develop a powerful,
historically grounded argument for understanding cultural persistence as
a valuable and vital form of self-determination.