Reconstructing 19th-Century Eskimo-Athabascan Boundaries in the Unalakleet River Drainage

Krupnik, Igor; Pratt, K. L.

doi:10.1353/arc.2012.0031

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“…This clear geographic patterning, which cannot be explained by vertical transmission down cultural lineages, is consistent with research showing that many Arctic groups were embedded in complex systems of interaction, including trade networks, friendly relations, and hostile relations (Aporta, 2009;Burch Jr., 2005;Friesen, 2013;Pratt, 2012). Our folktale analyses add a new dimension to this scholarship by providing quantitative evidence for the existence of betweengroup cultural learning of sufficiently high bandwidth and fidelity for orally transmitted folktales to diffuse between groups.…”

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Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

Ross

Atkinson

2016

Evolution and Human Behavior

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Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

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Atkinson

2016

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…On the Norton Sound, according to her, the Iñupiaq and Yupiaq systematized their travel and camp sites as well as dwelling sites on place names. Ray [20] (p. 256) and [16,24] point out that, today, most of the Indigenous place names have been lost as they ceased to be used for the most part in the end of the 1800s: "(place names) once held a tribal territory together, provided mnemonic guides for travel and utilisation of resources and forged a permanent and identifiable bond with the land." Pratt [24] identifies the community to have been a major historical node for pan-Indigenous trading and migrations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ray [20] (p. 256) and [16,24] point out that, today, most of the Indigenous place names have been lost as they ceased to be used for the most part in the end of the 1800s: "(place names) once held a tribal territory together, provided mnemonic guides for travel and utilisation of resources and forged a permanent and identifiable bond with the land." Pratt [24] identifies the community to have been a major historical node for pan-Indigenous trading and migrations. According to Pratt [24] (p. 94), the Indigenous peoples in the region at the time of the European contact were the Koyukon Athabascan and Unalit Yupiaq peoples.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pratt [24] identifies the community to have been a major historical node for pan-Indigenous trading and migrations. According to Pratt [24] (p. 94), the Indigenous peoples in the region at the time of the European contact were the Koyukon Athabascan and Unalit Yupiaq peoples. Some sources recall earlier Iñupiaq presence already in 1830s (Snowchange Unalakleet Oral History Archive 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pratt [24] (p. 105) has described that the Unalakleet region with the Iñupiaq, Yupiaq and the Athabascans provided an important exception to Burch's understanding of Indigenous Nations. According to him, this was due to trading and that the groups "had a stable, friendly relationship and had friendly borders" as opposed to conflicts elsewhere in Alaska.…”

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Dam²

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This multi-disciplinary science and Indigenous knowledge assessment paper reviews over 20 years of research materials, oral histories and Indigenous views on climate change affecting Unalakleet, Alaska, USA and Norton Sound. It brings a historical review, statistical analysis, community-based observations and wisdom from Unalakleet Iñupiaq knowledge holders into a critical reading of the current state of climate change impacts in the region. Through this process, two keystone species, Pacific salmon and caribou, are explored as indicators of change to convey the significance of climate impacts. We rely on this historical context to analyse the root causes of the climate crisis as experienced in Alaska, and as a result we position Indigenous resurgence, restoration and wisdom as answers.

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Stevenson

Everson

2014

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Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have historically experienced a broad range of demographic and ecological adversities, the impacts of which sometimes included high mortalities and population dislocations. The anthropological literature has tended to emphasise the dramatic, negative impacts of such events on human groups—to an extent that implies the fabric of social life was typically devastated. This study takes a markedly different perspective by instead describing the resilience of Indigenous populations in the face of culturally traumatic events; in this case, a series of epidemic diseases and major declines in a very critical subsistence resource. Drawing on a rich collection of data documenting Indigenous land use and settlement patterns, the authors explore local responses to significant demographic adversities that befell the people of western Alaska in the 19th and early 20th centuries.Les peuples autochtones de l’Arctique ont connu, historiquement, un grand nombre d’adversités démographiques et écologiques, dont les impacts comprennent des taux de mortalité élevés et des déplacements de population. La littérature anthropologique a eu tendance à accentuer les effets dramatiques et négatifs de ces évènements sur les groupes humains — à un degré qui implique que la fabrique de la vie sociale a été dévastée. Cette étude adopte une perspective nettement différente en décrivant au contraire la résilience des populations autochtones face à des événements culturellement traumatiques; dans le cas présent, une série de maladies épidémiques et le déclin majeur d’une ressource essentielle à la subsistance. Tirant parti de la riche collection de données qui documentent les modes d’occupation et d’exploitation du rerritoire, les auteurs explorent les réactions locales aux adversités démographiques majeures qui ont touché les populations de l’ouest de l’Alaska au cours du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle

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Reconstructing 19th-Century Eskimo-Athabascan Boundaries in the Unalakleet River Drainage

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Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

Climate Change and Unalakleet: A Deep Analysis

Demographic adversities and Indigenous resilience in Western Alaska

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