Phyllis Fast's guest appearances

Phyllis Fast

Alaska Native Writers and Alaska Native Themes

Connecting Alaska:  Anthropology and Archaeology

Aron Crowell

Craig Mishler

Jane Harper

John Barrymore

Ray Hudson

Jenny Miller

Jon Davis

Craig Childs

Larry Merculieff

Karen Roth

Paul Ongtooguk

Jan Harper

Diane Benson

Alice Rearden

Ann Fienup-Riordan

OwlTail

Alaska authors discuss their books and writing in different genres.  Jane Harper discusses Unequally Divided, her novel based during the Vietnam era (2:40-23:10), Phyllis Fast discusses her forthcoming mystery Red Paint Woman (23:58-38:40), and Jan Harper Haines discusses her family biographyr Cold River Spirits (39:01-1:24:20).Here is a brief description of the authors:  Jan Harper Haines’  Cold River Spirits: Whispers from a Family’s Forgotten Past is a classic in Alaska literature.   It brings together stories from the life and times of her Koyukon Athabascan mother and grandmother. Her cousin, Professor Emerita Phyllis Fast, is an anthropologist and author of the acclaimed Northern Athabascan Survival Women, Community, and the Future.  Her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries. At this event, she presents her newest book, Red Paint Woman. Alongside Phyllis is her sister in law, Jane E. Harper, who was born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania.  Her novel Unequally Divided is a vibrant novel portraying difficult choices of love and life’s direction during the tumultuous Vietnam era

Alaska authors discuss their books and writing in different genres. Jane Harper discusses Unequally Divided, her novel based during the Vietnam era (2:40-23:10), Phyllis Fast discusses her forthcoming mystery Red Paint Woman (23:58-38:40), and Jan Harper Haines discusses her family biographyr Cold River Spirits (39:01-1:24:20). Here is a brief description of the authors: Jan Harper Haines’ Cold River Spirits: Whispers from a Family’s Forgotten Past is a classic in Alaska literature. It brings together stories from the life and times of her Koyukon Athabascan mother and grandmother. Her cousin, Professor Emerita Phyllis Fast, is an anthropologist and author of the acclaimed Northern Athabascan Survival Women, Community, and the Future. Her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries. At this event, she presents her newest book, Red Paint Woman. Alongside Phyllis is her sister in law, Jane E. Harper, who was born in North Carolina and raised in Pennsylvania. Her novel Unequally Divided is a vibrant novel portraying difficult choices of love and life’s direction during the tumultuous Vietnam era

Alaska Authors Jan Harper Haines,  Phyllis Fast , and Jane Harper:  A Family Affair:

Professor Emerita Phyllis Fast is an anthropologist, artist and mystery writer. Author of the acclaimed Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future, her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries.  At this event she discusses Half-Bead of Fundy and Midnight Trauma, which take place in Fairbanks, Alaska.  •	Half-Bead of Fundy:  They wanted her beaded jacket at any cost. It was up to Alaska Native, Deloo Goode, to figure out what was so important about her mother's beading—or else be killed like the innkeeper at the Secret Spirit Inn.•	Midnight Trauma:  Someone has killed a teenager at a bead shop in remote Fairbanks, Alaska. Moreover, the owner, Earlene, is missing and the shop keeps getting broken into. Deloo Goode and her mother try to unravel the mysteries surrounding the bead shop.Phyllis Fast‘s heritage is Koyukon Athabascan and white American. She was born in Anchorage, in 1946 to Elsie and Oscar Fast, graduated from East Anchorage High School.  Her academic accomplishments include earning a B.A. in English from the University of Alaska, an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from UAA, and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.  After teaching at UAF and UAA, she retired Professor Emerita in 2014.  She now lives in Washington.

Professor Emerita Phyllis Fast is an anthropologist, artist and mystery writer. Author of the acclaimed Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community, and the Future, her current focus is writing Alaska Native mysteries. At this event she discusses Half-Bead of Fundy and Midnight Trauma, which take place in Fairbanks, Alaska. •	Half-Bead of Fundy: They wanted her beaded jacket at any cost. It was up to Alaska Native, Deloo Goode, to figure out what was so important about her mother's beading—or else be killed like the innkeeper at the Secret Spirit Inn. •	Midnight Trauma: Someone has killed a teenager at a bead shop in remote Fairbanks, Alaska. Moreover, the owner, Earlene, is missing and the shop keeps getting broken into. Deloo Goode and her mother try to unravel the mysteries surrounding the bead shop. Phyllis Fast‘s heritage is Koyukon Athabascan and white American. She was born in Anchorage, in 1946 to Elsie and Oscar Fast, graduated from East Anchorage High School. Her academic accomplishments include earning a B.A. in English from the University of Alaska, an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from UAA, and a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University. After teaching at UAF and UAA, she retired Professor Emerita in 2014. She now lives in Washington.

 Prof. Emerita Phyllis Fast discusses her  Mystery Books

Panelists include Dr.Gordon Pullar, Eleanor Hadden, and Dr. Phyllis Fast.  Note:   Dr. Gordon Pullar played a key role in the famous Larsen Bay repatriation case.  In 1991, establishing an historic precedent, the remains of an estimated 1,000 Alutiiq people who had been excavated in the 1930s, were returned from the Smithsonian Institution to Kodiak Island for reburial.

 Alaska Native Teachings and Anthropology with Anthropolgists  Gordon Pullar, Phyllis Fast and Eleanor Hadden