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The Survival of Alaska's Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Yukon River
Stephanoff, Brian P.
Stephanoff, Brian P.
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The indigenous peoples living in remote villages of Southwestern Alaska are heavily dependent on subsistence hunting, fishing, gathering and trapping to provide for the diets of many families. There are many tribes within the region that utilize a traditional way of life that revolves on a cultural continuum relying on immediate and extended families to educate and help each other. Each person that permanently resides inside the tribal villages fits together as parts within intergenerational knowledge that utilize critical thinking skills to resolve problems related to subsistence needs. Most of the permanent residents living across the Yukon and Kuskokwim delta (YKD) utilize subsistence harvest for nourishing parts within ceremonial and traditional forms of ancestral religious or cultural practices that are unique between tribal villages. The Yup'ik peoples residing along the freshwater tributaries of both the Yukon and Kuskokwim River will be explored to conceptualize the impacts of wildlife management. This project intends to expand research related to rural Alaska Native lifestyles along freshwater tribes reflecting notions of subsistence ways of life. This will further explore the importance of indigenous attachment between culture, landscapes and waterways. This scholarly work will be unique in the Native American Studies field to expand research related to traditional knowledge, survival, resiliency and a way of life. Many of the cultures of Southwest Alaska are wedded to land with availability of subsistence activity providing intergenerational roots to hunt, fish, gather and trap. Notions of cultural diversity will expand works of Yup'ik cultures that broadens the scope of indigenous peoples along the YKD.
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2012-05-31
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University of Kansas
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Native American studies, Alaska Natives, Food sovereignty, Indigeneity, Slow Violence, Subsistence fishing, Traditional Ecological Knowledge