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Article published on Monday, March 12th, 2007, By SCOTT CHRISTIANSEN, Kodiak Daily Mirror
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=4480
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Alaska author, researcher Lydia Black dies
The Associated Press, Published: March 13, 2007
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8704754p-8606593c.html
Anthropologist, author Lydia Black dies at 81
Web posted March 13, 2007, The Associated Press
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031307/sta_20070313018.shtml
Zöe Pierson, Lydia’s daughter is interviewed.
Broadcast on Alaska Public Radio, evening statewide news 13 March 2007. Available as mp3 file.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/apti/news/content/1053258.html
Anthropologist Lydia Black Dead at 81
Casey Kelly, KMXT
KODIAK, AK (2007-03-13) Anthropologist Lydia Black, author of many books on Alaska Native culture and Alaska history, died Monday morning of liver failure at her home in Kodiak. She was 81. © Copyright 2007, apti
[audio src="http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/apti/local-apti-572852.mp3" /]
Alaska author, research Lydia Black dies
[No video or audio], Associated Press (at KTVA), Article Last Updated: 03/13/2007 12:43:37 PM AKDT
http://www.ktva.com/alaska/ci_5426672
Mar 12, 11:16 PM EDT
Fairbanks Daily Miner (derived from Kodiak Daily Mirror AP story)
Alaska author, research Lydia Black dies
http://tinyurl.com/2695hh
PASSINGS
Lydia Black, 81; anthropologist who wrote books on Alaska
From LA Times Staff and Wire Reports
March 14, 2007
Lydia T. Black, 81, an anthropologist who wrote several books on Alaska native culture and history, died Monday in Kodiak, Alaska. A cause of death had not been determined, but she had been suffering from liver failure, said one of her daughters, Zoe Pierson.
Black was born in Kiev in the former Soviet Union on Dec. 16, 1925, and came to the U.S. in 1950. She studied at Northeastern University and Brandeis University in the Boston area before receiving her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts. She became a professor of anthropology in 1973 at Providence College in Rhode Island and began teaching at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1984.
Black traveled in southwest Alaska throughout her career to research the culture and traditions of the region, specializing in the native people of the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Archipelago.
Black translated many firsthand accounts of native cultures written during the Russian colonial period in Alaska.
After retiring from the university in 1998, she continued to edit and write in Kodiak, where she helped translate and catalog the Russian archives of St. Herman Theological Seminary.
One of her best-known books, “Aleut Art” (1982) is a collection of documented art made by natives of the Aleutian Islands.
http://tinyurl.com/ytdn9d
The audio news story and partial transcript mentioned above [(18:29:54) ] and referred to here Anthropologist Lydia T. Black (1925-2007) – http://www.northernwaterways.com/blog/?p=63, is available from the Kodiak public radio station, KMXT. It is a well done story.
Anthropologist Lydia Black Dies At Age 81
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Black Authored Many Books On Culture and History Of Southwest Alaska
13 March 2007, Casey Kelly/KMXT
Anthropologist Lydia Black, author of many books on Alaska Native culture and Alaska history, died Monday morning of liver failure at her home in Kodiak. She was 81. […]
http://www.kmxt.org/?q=node/1950
mp3 file available
http://www.kmxt.org/?q=audio/download/1950
“Alaska author, research Lydia Black dies, The Associated Press”
Kodiak Daily Mirror article reproduced at Alaska Journal of Commerce
http://ap.alaskajournal.com/stories/state/ak/20070312/155855228.shtml
Pat Petrivelli and her mother Alice Petrivelli wrote this Tribute to Dr. Lydia T. Black for the March 2007 Aleut Corp. newsletter
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“Anthropologist Dr. Lydia Black Dies at 81
By Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr., Executive Director”
http://alutiiqmuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=102
(Published May 20, 2008)
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/169883.html
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APRN.org has a more complete review
http://aprn.org/2008/05/20/new-book-chronicles-the-run-up-to-the-battle-for-sitka/
New book chronicles the run up to the battle for Sitka
Two of Southeast Alaska’s leading cultural historians have published a new book about the battle for Sitka. The book documents the eventsleading up to the battles of 1802 and 1804, which took place at sites now known as “Old Sitka” and Sitka National Historical Park. The little-understood episode was last major conflict between North American Natives and a colonizing European power.
Robert Woolsey, KCAW – Sitka
5/20/2008
Tlingit history wins book award
Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage,AK,USA
But the Dauenhauers’ remarkable book, a collaboration with the late Russian history scholar Lydia Black, is the first full-length scholarly treatment of the …
http://www.adn.com/life/arts/story/635410.html
Book on Tlingit battle wins national award – Juneau Empire
… American Book Awards was “Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká: Russians in Tlingit America, The Battles of Sitka 1802 and 1804” – a book by Juneau residents Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer and the late Lydia Black, of Fairbanks. …
http://juneauempire.com/stories/122508/loc_371061037.shtml
KCAW – Public Radio in Sitka, Alaska – Local News
As KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports, the Dauenhauers, along with their co-editor, the late Lydia Black, have compiled what is likely the most diverse examination to-date of the struggle for control of Southeast Alaska: …
http://kcaw.org/modules/local_news/index.php?op=sideBlock&ID=347
Here is a review of the book by an historian, Mitch WilliamsonINDIAN WAR IN RUSSIAN AMERICA