Description
From June of 1941 through the next summer, Fredericka Martin lived along with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. All through that point, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and Before the Storm draws from her personal accounts of that year and her research to offer an interesting portrait of a time and a people facing radical change. A central authority-ordered evacuation of all Aleuts from the island within the face of World War II, which Martin recounts in her journal, proved but step one in a long struggle by native peoples to achieve independence, and, as editor Raymond L. Hudson explains, Martin came to play a significant role within the effort.