A Native Lad - Softcover

Hurst, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942078846 ISBN 13: 9781942078845

Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA), 2022

Synopsis

A Native Lad: Benny Benson Tells Alaska's Story is based on

the script of a play by Sarah Hurst, first performed at Tatitlek

Community School in January 2010.

The story consists of 16 scenes marking major events in Alaska

history, narrated by Benny Benson, the designer of the Alaska

flag. Benny travels in time to meet a modern-day high school

student named Abigail, who is wondering where her PFD check

comes from. The scenes cover the Alaska Purchase through to the

statehood movement, the struggle for the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act and the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay.

This graphic novel, illustrated in a varied range of style by nine

superb Alaska artists, can be used in a classroom setting to teach

Alaska history to grades 7 through to college level, or it can

simply be read for enjoyment by children or adults. Forty pages

of supplemental notes further explain each scene and provide

questions for group discussion as well as sources of additional

reading to research topics in detail.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Hurst is an author and journalist from the UK who lived in Anchorage from 2001 to 2013 - moving there to live with her future husband, whom she met on the internet while living in China. After assisting a producer making a documentary for the 50th anniversary of statehood in 2008 she wrote a play about Alaska history that she subsequently turned into a graphic novel with the help of nine artists. She is now back in the UK, where she writes mainly about Russian politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942078846
• ISBN 13: 9781942078845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150