JUNEAU - The Alaska State Library will host Emily L. Moore, author of Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks, on Saturday, June 22 at 2 pm at the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff (APK) State Library, Archives, and Museum. The totem parks at Saxman, Totem Bight, Wrangell, and Prince of Wales Island are among Southeast Alaska's most popular tourist destinations, yet few studies have attended to their complex origins. Built as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) program between 1938 and 1942, Alaska's totem parks arose out of a controversial set of compromises between New Deal efforts to preserve "American heritage" and Tlingit and Haida efforts to assert their own heritage and claims to the Tongass National Forest. Moore's extensive research draws from newspaper articles, archival records, personal interviews, and oral histories to explore the successes and failures of the project and its lasting impact from both perspectives. The book incorporates research conducted at all three sections of the State Library, Archives, and Museum, and features many historic photographs from the Library's Historical Collections. One of the chapters in the book discusses the Proud Raven/"Lincoln" pole; a fragment of the original pole is on display at the Alaska State Museum.The presentation will be recorded and posted on line at 360 North's web site under At the APK: https://www.360north.org/at-the-apk/
Emily L. Moore grew up in Ketchikan and is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Colorado State University.
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