Tom Kizzia

A rundown of research and source material for a series telling the untold story of Josie Rudolph, the first settler girl born under the U.S. flag in Alaska — and how her birth here helped her escape from Nazi Germany.

Part 8: Many years later, descendants of the first white settler girl born under the U.S. flag in Alaska travel to Sitka in search of their pioneer roots.

Part 7: While the U.S. refuses to open the Alaska territory to German Jews fleeing the Nazis, Josie Rudolph develops her own Alaska plan, based on her birth in the coastal rainforest of the Sheet’ká Kwáan.

Part 6: In Germany, Alaska’s first-born settler daughter watches the rise of the Nazis and becomes trapped, her family’s home and wealth stripped away.

Part 5: Famous visitors, prejudice and white man’s justice as the boom goes bust.

Part 4: A child is born into the community of Jewish immigrants who found their way from the Old World to America’s northern frontier.

Part 3: The Army trains its cannons on the Sheet’ká Kwáan as the United States takes control of Tlingit lands and waters.

Part 2: A secret agent arrives in America’s muddy northern frontier outpost.

Part 1: The untold story of the first settler girl born under the U.S. flag in Alaska and her escape, decades later, from the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. It begins in Sitka in 1869, a time of colonial ambition, worldwide migration and the seizing of the coastal forests from the Tlingit kwáans.

The concern for those of us in Homer is how Sarah Vance’s comments reflect, sadly, on the risks of raising children in our small, isolated, mostly white town.

Weaver led the Daily News through a period of remarkable growth and transformation for Anchorage and Alaska, and later became an executive with McClatchy newspapers.

The current decline, darkly, seems tied to failing chinook runs all over Alaska and the West Coast.

Today, the future I imagined when I wrote that sad story back in 1999 is already upon us. But where is that lesson of history?

Rep. Young, at 88 the oldest and longest-serving member of the current Congress, died Friday. A Republican from Fort Yukon, he fashioned a career as Alaska’s winningest politician ever, gradually building the kind of seniority in Congress that became its own compelling argument for his reelection.

Book excerpt: Today, as has been the case for many years, the great dramas of Alaska Native life revolve around efforts to adapt and resist.