YUUYARAQ

Yuuyaraq

Yuuyaraq

Yuuyaraq: The way of the Human Being is one of the greatest novels the impacted Alaskan Natives dramatically. The novel is series of journal entries Harold has written over a period of time while he was in prison for killing his son. It shows the many struggles that Harold and many others have gone through just to survive the western culture (www.elders.uaa.alaska.edu).

Societies acquire scars from war, economic crises, and environmental disasters or, as Harold Napoleon tell us, from epidemics. Afflicted by epidemics and their penalties from the 1770s until the 1940s, Alaska Natives are still feeling traumatic consequences ...