The Kandik Map
The Kandik Map

Author: Linda Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Explores the creation of the Kandik Map, drawn by Paul Kandik and Francois Mercier in 1880 and showcasing the region of northeastern Alaska and western Canada. Discusses how and why these men came together to create this map and highlights the maps special significance in Native American scholarship.--(Source of description unspecified.)

The Kandik Map
The Kandik Map

Author: Linda R. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13:

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"The Kandik Map drawn in 1880 by Yukon Indian Paul Kandik and annotated by French Canadian fur trader François Mercier and U.S. Census Agent Ivan Petroff is a unique record in the documentary history of Northwestern North America. It traces the Yukon, Tanana, and Kuskokwim Rivers from their headwaters to the Pacific, showing trading posts, trails, and place names in several Athabascan languages, as well as French and English. As one of the oldest maps of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands it documents indigenous knowledge and the dynamic cultural exchange between Native residents and non-native newcomers along the Yukon River prior to the Klondike Gold Rush. Using oral traditions, archival and published sources, this thesis examines the significance and meanings of the map from 1880 to the present. The original map is preserved at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley"--Leaf [iii].

Fort Reliance, Yukon
Fort Reliance, Yukon

Author: Donald Woodforde Clark

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 177282142X

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This study describes the history of Fort Reliance, assesses the nature and extent of archaeological remains, and examines the relationship between Native use of the site, previously known through the recovery of stone artifacts that relate to a precontact or prehistoric technology, and the trading post.

Paths of Innovation in Warfare
Paths of Innovation in Warfare

Author: Nicholas Michael Sambaluk

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1498551785

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Innovation shapes wars, and twelve studies by former faculty members of West Point’s United States Military Academy examine specific cases of past and present military innovation. The complex, competitive, and dynamic environment that defines war drives combatants to seek solutions to potentially lethal problems. As some solutions prove effective, gain traction, and win emulation, they follow a path of innovation. The chapters address a broad array of innovations, including in weapon technology, strategy, research and development philosophy, organization of the military instrument, and leveraging maps for strategic goals. Geographically, the examples in this volume span four continents and the Mediterranean Sea, and chronologically they proceed from the twelfth century to the twenty first. Collectively, the studies point to the interconnected value of pursuing constructive solutions to challenges, networking interdisciplinary forms of knowledge, appropriately balancing expectations and capabilities, and understanding an innovation as a journey rather than as an episodic event.