Episode 3: Alaska Native Resilience in World War II with Dr. Holly Miowak Guise

Reckoning with Jason Herbert

Historian Dr. Holly Miowak Guise talks about how Alaska Natives dealt with both American imperialism and World War II.
About our guest:
Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II focuses on gender, Unangax̂ (Aleut) relocation and internment camps, Native activism/resistance, and Indigenous military service during the war. Her research methods bridge together archives, tribal archives, community-based research, and oral histories with Alaska Native elders and veterans. She is interested in the colonial/Indigenous relationship during war and social history.

She launched a digital humanities website (ww2alaska.com) that features her YouTube channel (World War II Alaska) with oral history content from Native elders, veterans, and Unangax̂ internment survivors. Since 2022, she has served as an editorial board member for the Alaska History Journal. In partnership with the Alaska Humanities Forum, she has served as the historian for the documentary film Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then (2023) directed by 'Waats'asdiyei Joe Yates (Haida).