Alaska

Eskimo Stone Houses in Foxe Basin

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
T.H. Manning
Arctic, vol. 3, no. 2, August 1950, pp. 108-112
Description
Looks at sites found at Storm Cove and Nuwata, Prince Charles Island, Cape Jermain and Igloolik Island.
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Eskimo String Figures

Alternate Title
Eskimo Folklore. Part B
Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18 ; vol. 13, pt. B
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Diamond] Jenness
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The Eskimos

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
George Swinton
Arctic, vol. 42, no. 1, March 1989, pp. 70-71
Description
Book review of: The Eskimos text by Ernest S. Burch with photographs by Werner Forman.
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The Eskimos and Aleuts

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
William S. Laughlin
Arctic, vol. 31, no. 1, March 1978, pp. 63-64
Description
Book review of: The Eskimos and Aleuts by Don E. Dumond.
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Eskimos of Northwest Alaska in the Early Nineteenth Century, Based on the Beechey and Belcher Collections and Records Compiled During the Voyages of H.M.S. Blossom to Northwest Alaska in 1826 and 1827

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. Garth Taylor
Arctic, vol. 31, no. 3, 1978, pp. 507-508
Description
Book review of: Eskimos of Northwest Alaska in the Early Nineteenth Century, Based on the Beechey and Belcher Collections and Records Compiled During the Voyages of H.M.S. Blossom to Northwest Alaska in 1826 and 1827 by John R. Bockstoce.
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Establishing a Culturally Sensitive Palliative Care Program in Rural Alaska Native American Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine A. DeCourtney
Kristina Jones
Melanie P. Merriman
Nina Heavener
P. Kay Branch
Journal of Palliative Medicine, vol. 6, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 501-510
Description
Studies a multi-disciplinary program that blends cultural practices with contemporary palliative care medicine to allow Alaska Natives and others living in remote communities to be cared for at home through the end of life.
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Ethical and Equitable Engagement Synthesis Report: A Collection of Inuit Rules, Guidelines, Protocols, and Values for the Engagement of Inuit Communities and Indigenous Knowledge from across Inuit Nunaat

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Victoria Qutuuq Buschman
Description
Material included falls into several categories: protocols and guidelines; health, land-use and conservation plans; permitting processes; position papers; research projects and reports; and organizational documents.
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"Ethnicity, Not Culture?..." A Reply

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph G. Jorgensen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, 1996, pp. 171-175
Description
Looks at Federal District Judge H. Russel Holland's decision about the infamous oil spill of the Exxon Vuldez (Order No. 190 in the U.S. District Court of Alaska, 23 March 1994).
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Ethnicity, Not Culture? Obfuscating Social Science in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph G. Jorgensen
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, 1995, pp. 1-124
Description
When law suits arose claiming that there had been damage done to Native culture by the March 1989 oil spill, the Exxon Corporation responded that Aboriginal culture had already been "smashed" and that the small differences between Natives and non-Natives in the spill area were "ethnic" and not cultural in nature.
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An Ethnographic Exploration of the Relationship Between Environmental Perceptions and Natural Resource Use: Perceptions and Behaviors of Alaska Native Artists and Alaska Tourists

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum ; 2004
The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Wiita
Description
Provides introduction to the research topic, methodology, and research questions. Presentation from: Proceedings of the Third Northern Research Forum: The Resilient North: Human Responses to Global Change, Yellowknife, NWT, 2004.
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Evaluation of a Volunteer Sample in Nasopharyngeal Colonization Surveys for Streptococcus Pneumoniae in Rural Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dana L. Bruden
Thomas W. Hennessy
Jay C. Butler
Debra A. Hurlburt
Debra J. Parks
Lisa R. Bulkow
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 64, no. 1, 2005, pp. 16-25
Description
Compares characteristics of persons in rural northern communities who participated in a study on antimicrobial use and drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae to those who did not participate.
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Evidence-Based Practices, Attitudes, and Beliefs in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs Serving American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Qualitative Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sandra E. Larios
Serena Wright
Amanda Jerstrom
Dorothy Lebron
James L. Sorensen
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 43, no. 4, Growing Roots: Native American Evidence-Based Practices, October-December 2011, pp. 355-359
Description
Looks at attitudes towards evidence-based treatment programs in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Evidences of Early Man in Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frank C. Hibben
American Antiquity, vol. 8, no. 3, January 1943, pp. 254-259
Description
Discussion of the Folsom and Yuma periods and the problems of placing the Chinitna Bay site in the Yuma complex.
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Expedition Members

Images » Photographs
Description
Expedition members on [Mount] Wrangell. Back row: Maurer & Knight; front row: Crawford, Ada Blackjack & Galle (1922). Alaska, U.S.A.
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An Expression of Self-Determination: Incorporating Alaska Native Knowledge into Community-Driven Energy Sovereignty

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph P Brewer
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 4, 2020, pp. 1-20
Description
Looks at the decision making process for the Gwichyaa Gwich's shift from a reliance on fossil fuels to more traditional knowledge based wood-to-energy project and how this change contributes their goal of self-determination.
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Extract from a Presentation at the Symposium “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together,” Kelowna, 29–31 March 2017This Space Here

Alternate Title
This Space Here: Extract from a Presentation at the Symposium “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together,” Kelowna,29–31 March 2017
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William White
BC Studies, no. 199, Indigeneities and Museums: Ongoing Conversations, Autumn, 2018, pp. 7-10
Description
Extract from a presentation at the symposium “Indigenous Perspectives on Repatriation: Moving Forward Together,” discusses the process of building relationships between Indigenous peoples and museums, describes the experience of visiting a museum as an Indigenous person.
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The "Eye of Awareness": Probing the Hidden Dimension of Bilingual Education

Alternate Title
Focus on Middle and High School Issues
National Research Symposium on Limited English Proficient Student Issues ; 3rd
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edward A. Tennant
Description
Describes a cultural awareness program that uses weekly bulletins to alert teachers to contrasting cultural values and a course for high-school students that teaches them how to recognize and cope with contrasting cultural values.
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The Fabric of Basketry: Initial Archaeological Study of the Grass Artifacts Assemblage from the Nunalleq Site, Southwest Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Masson-MacLean
Edouard Masson-MacLean
Rick Knecht
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1/2, The Past in the Yup’ik Present: Archaeologies of Climate Change in Western Alaska, 2019, pp. 85-105
Description

Highlights the excavation of grass artifacts near Quinhagak, Alaska and what they can reveal about the precontact Yup'ik people.

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"Faces We Remember": Assessing Visual Memory Depth among the Yupik of Chukotka and St. Lawrence Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Igor Krupnik
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 45, no. 1/2, Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present, 2021, pp. 63-91
Description

Examines the visual memories of Yupik and Chukotka elders based on historical photographs and the importance of physical visual collections. 

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Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David C. Natcher
Monika Calef
Orville Huntington
Sarah Trainor
Henry P. Huntington
La'ona Dewilde
Scott Rupp
F. Stuart Chapin
Ecology and Society, vol. 12, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-12
Description
Analyzes the geographical extent to which native peoples of Interior Alaska used fire to modify the landscape at the time of European contact.
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[Faith Food and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Ned (Edmund) Searles
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, The Influence of Marcel Mauss, 2006, pp. 225-228
Description
Book review of: Faith Food and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community by Carol Zane Jolles, with Elinor Makaghaq Oozeva.
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Farming Muskoxen for Qiviut in Alaska: A Feasibility Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Starr
Joshua Greenberg
Janice Rowell
Arctic, vol. 70, no. 1, March 2017, pp. [77]-85
Description
Examines principal economic variables of a hypothetical, established farm in order to evaluate its sustainable economic potential.
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