How to Dress a Fish
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How to Dress a Fish

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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How to Dress a Fish

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About This Book

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island, Alaska, and sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Incorporating extracts from Michael's boarding school records and early Russian ethnologies—while engaging Alutiiq language, storytelling motifs, and traditional practices—the poems form an act of witness and reclamation. In uncovering her own family records, Chabitnoy works against the attempted erasure, finding that while legislation such as the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act reconnects her to community, through blood and paper, it could not restore the personal relationships that had already been severed.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN
9780819578501
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HOW TO DRESS A FISH
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Family Ghosts
  8. I
  9. II
  10. III
  11. ADDENDUM
  12. Notes
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. ABOUT THE AUTHOR