The Kuskokwim Corporation is proud to publish Conflicting Landscapes, a book we hope will spark discussion and debate on educational issues in rural Alaska. I encourage Alaska Native parents, school board members, rural teachers and school administrators, as well as university professors, state officials and legislators to read and consider seriously the message of this book.

Maver Carey

President/CEO

The Kuskokwim Corporation

To order your copy of Conflicting Landscapes, please return the completed order form (on the left column) to:
The Kuskokwim Corporation
4300 B Street, Suite 207
Anchorage, AK 99503

Phone: 907-243-2944
Fax: 907-243-2984

This February 2011, Conflicting Landscapes will be available from the University of Alaska Press, and no longer sold at The Kuskokwim Corporation office. For more information, please contact UA Press Sale and Distribution Coordinator Laura Walker at 888-252-6657.

University of Chicago Press
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
Clifton Bates and Michael J. Oleksa
Conflicting Landscapes
American Schooling/Alaska Natives
Distributed for The Kuskokwim Corporation 264 pages, 35 halftones 6x9
Paper $19.95
ISBN: 9781578333967 Pre-order now. Will publish February 2011

Synopsis-Bio

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native students, details the situation—financial, social, and educational—of the many rural schools serving this population, and offers cogent, straightforward proposals for improving the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health of present and future generations of Alaska Natives.

Clifton Bates has been involved in Alaska Native education for more than thirty years as a teacher, school district administrator, and university professor. Michael J. Oleksa has taught Alaska Native history and cross-cultural communications at Alaska Pacific University and all three main campuses of the University of Alaska system. He is the author of several books, including Another Culture/Another World.

Follow the following links for more information on Conflicting Landscapes:

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/reviews/38477414.html (Indian Country Today Review of the book, national newspaper)

http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/3/18/Conflicting-Land.... (Father Michael reading an excerpt for Alaska Public Radio)

http://www.holdthisthought.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/1/16/Conflicting-Land... (Clif reading an excerpt for Alaska Public Radio)

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Conflicting-Landscapes/Clifton-Bates/e/... (Barnes and Noble book review)