Native Voting in Village Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gordon Scott Harrison
Arctic , vol. 24, no. 1, March 1971, pp. 62-63
Description
Looks at data from study on Aboriginal voting performance in Alaska over a ten year period starting in 1958.
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Native Women, Violence, Substance Abuse and HIV Risk

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Saylors
Nalini Daliparthy
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 273-280
Description
Outlines the overlap between sexual, physical and substance abuse and increased HIV risk behaviours amid urban Native women in the San Francisco Bay area.
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The Nature of Thule Eskimo Whale Use

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allen P. McCartney
Arctic, vol. 33, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 517-541
Description
Study shows bowhead whales were hunted during A.D. 1000-1300 in the Canadian Arctic.
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Needing Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susheila Khera
The Northern Review, no. 31, Northern Literature, Fall, 2009, p. 171
Description
A poem about August in Alaska.
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Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Juli James
Michael Garcia
Saska Barab
Betty Gee]
Description
For use with the two-player cooperative video game, developed in collaboration with the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, which incorporates traditional stories along with culture and values of the Iñupiat community. See also:
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Never Alone: (Re)Coding the Comic Holotrope of Survivance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Lee Brown
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 1, Indigenous Gaming, July 31, 2017, pp. 22-44
Description
Article examines the use of gaming and other communication technologies as strategies for resistance, survivance and cultural resurgence; discusses practices of re/mapping, kinship-making and relationality.
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Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story

Alternate Title
Game Development Conference ; 2015
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Dima Veryovka
Description
A Discussion on the visual style, cultural infusion and impact of the 2014 video game Never Alone. The game is based off the Iñupiat legend of Kanuk Sayuka and was created in cooperation with elders, storytellers, and artists from the Cook Inlet Tribal Council. Duration: 50:01.
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New Isotope Evidence for Diachronic and Site-Spatial Variation in Precontact Diet during the Little Ice Age at Nunalleq, Southwest Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kate Britton
Etudes Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1/2, The Past in the Yup’ik Present: Archaeologies of Climate Change in Western Alaska, 2019, pp. 223-242
Description

Using archeological data to examine the changes of the Yup'ik diet during different time periods and what those changes can tell about Yup'ik history.

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New Old Hunters: Inupiaq People Organize to Revive Subsistence Food Culture

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Gilberto Daniel Rodrigues
Namgyal Tsepak
Bonney Hartley
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, Building on Indigenous City, Summer, 2011
Description
Comments on a volunteer group which works together to restore health and wellbeing by eating traditional foods and taking part in traditional activities.
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No Tourist

Alternate Title
Material: George Heye & His Golden Rule
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Jane Lenz
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. [29], no. [4], Autumn, 2004, pp. 86-105
Description
Discusses George Heye's collection of Northwest Coast metal objects which included masks, rattles, feast spoons, and daggers created for sale as "curios".
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Nora Marks Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gladys Cardiff
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 65-73
Description
Discusses elements of Nora Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song which uses a variety of genres including memoir, essay, fiction, poetry, and autobiographical to reflect the relationship between the Tlingit people and their landscape. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 65.
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North, Interrupted

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sara Komarnisky
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 4, no. 1, Reshaping the Northern Imaginary, February 2016, p. [19]
Description
Discusses how the northern story is about a settlement interrupted.
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Northern Archaic Tradition Forty Years Later: Comments

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas D. Anderson
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 169-178
Description
Discusses that more findings of notched points have demonstrated a more complex prehistory than was originally believed.
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The Northwest Coast

Alternate Title
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter H. Stephenson
Steven Acheson
Description
Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.
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Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alan D. McMillan
BC Studies, no. 179, Ethnobotany in BC, Autumn, 2013, pp. 220-222
Description
Book review of Northwest Coast by Madonna L. Moss. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review, scroll to p. 220.
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Northwest Coast Potlatch: Profound Ceremony & Celebration

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Walker
Native Peoples, vol. 20, no. 6, November/December 2007, pp. 28-33
Description
Describes the history and suppression of the ceremonies which were illegal in Canada until 1951 and in the United States until 1934.
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The Nuka System of Care: Improving Health Through Ownership and Relationships

Alternate Title
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Katherine Gottlieb
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 72, Supplement 1, 2013, p. article no. 21118
Description
Describes the transformation of health care delivery led by Alaska Native people.
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Nunalleq: Archaeology, Climate Change, and Community Engagement in a Yup'ik Village

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charlotta Hillerdal
Rick Knecht
Warren Jones
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 1, The Archaeology of Northern Coasts, 2019, pp. 4-17
Description
Article presents an overview of the most recent results of research on the Nunalleq site in Southwestern Alaska. Stresses the need for community engagement and community centered archaeology in arctic regions.
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The Nunamiut Eskimos: Hunters of Caribou

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
B. Y. Card
Arctic, vol. 19, no. 4, December 1966, pp. 359-360
Description
Book review of: The Nunamiut Eskimosby Nicholas J. Gubser, with a foreword by George Peter Murdock.
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Nutemllarput, Our Very Own: A Yup'ik Epistemology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa Arevgaq John
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and Education, 2009, pp. 57-72, 129
Description
Looks at how Indigenous pedagogy and cultural practices, rooted in Yup'ik epistemology, can help with child awareness developmental processes.
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Nutrients In Native Foods of Southeastern Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen M. Drury
Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 5, no. 2, Winter, 1985, pp. 87-100
Description
Comments on the analysis of twenty foods indigenous to southeastern Alaska and reports the high nutritional content found in these foods.
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Nutrition and Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Byers
Cancer, vol. 78, no. 7, Supplement Article, October 1, 1996, pp. 1612-1616
Description
Review of published literature to: summarize relationship between diet and cancer, summarize what is known about historical and current diet, and consider correlation between nutrition and risk of cancer.
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Obesity and Diabetes: An Arctic Challenge

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marit Eika Jørgensen
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 69, no. 4, September 2010, pp. 320-321
Description
Presents an editorial that introduces a serious problem increasing among indigenous peoples in the Arctic region.
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Obesity Studies in the Circumpolar Inuit: A Scoping Review

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracey Galloway
Hilary Blackett
Susan Chatwood
Charlotte Jeppesen
Kami Kandola
Janice Linton
Peter Bjerregaard
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 71, 2012, p. article no. 18698
Description
Purpose of study was to examine extent of research, representation of populations and geographic areas, methodologies used and associated health outcomes.
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Occupational Values of Rural Eskimo

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
G. Williamson McDiarmid
Judith S. Kleinfeld
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [22-29]
Description
Study compared secondary students from rural Inuit villages to a sample of Euroamericans from an urban environment to determine whether cultural differences influence work values.
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