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Book Traditional Food Guide for the Alaska Native People

Download or read book Traditional Food Guide for the Alaska Native People written by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Traditional Food Guide represents itsdifferent uses by recognizing that the guide is an important toolfor healthy living for the youngest child to the oldest elder who enjoy Alaska's wild foods. It isalso a guide to help people with diseases like cancer, diabetes orheart disease learn more about nutrition and eat better foods. The food guide includes sections on nutrition, food safety and food sources from the land and sea. The food pages reference theAlaska Native names, history and preparation information andinclude personal stories. Since there are different names for manytraditional Native foods, the guide tries to address the differencesby noting the more commonly known names rather than focusingon specific foods from each Alaska region.

Book Sacred Ecology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fikret Berkes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-03-29
  • ISBN : 1136341722
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Sacred Ecology written by Fikret Berkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This third edition further develops the point that traditional knowledge as process, rather than as content, is what we should be examining. It has been updated with about 150 new references, and includes an extensive list of web resources through which instructors can access additional material and further illustrate many of the topics and themes in the book. Winner of the Ecological Society of America's 2014 Sustainability Science Award.

Book Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

Download or read book Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge written by Susette Biber-Klemm and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the means, instruments and institutions to create incentives to promote conservation and sustainable use of traditional knowledge and plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, in the framework of the world trade order. It approaches these topics on a broad basis: it analyses in depth the option to create specific sui generis intellectual property rights of the TRIPS Agreement. It then discusses the ways to support the maintenance of information which cannot be allocated to specific authors, and examines alternative concepts within the trade of traditionally generated information and related products. This book will be of significant interest to those studying and researching biotechnology, plant breeding, genetic resources, intellectual property law and agricultural economics.

Book Cultural Food Practices

Download or read book Cultural Food Practices written by Cynthia M. Goody and published by American Dietetic Associati. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on food practices for 15 cultures. Each chapter focuses on a particular culture, including such factors as diabetes risk factors; traditional foods, dishes and meal plans; special holiday foods; traditional health beliefs; current food practices, and more. Culturally appropriate counselling recommendations are also discussed.

Book Alaska Native Perceptions of Food  Health  and Community Well being

Download or read book Alaska Native Perceptions of Food Health and Community Well being written by Melanie Lindholm and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska Native populations have undergone relatively rapid changes in nearly every aspect of life over the past half century. Overall lifestyles have shifted from subsistence-based to wage-based, from traditional to Western, and from self-sustainability to reliance on Outside sources. My research investigates the effects of these changes on health and well-being. The literature appears to lack concern for and documentation of Native peoples' perceptions of the changes in food systems and effects on their communities. Additionally, there is a lack of studies specific to Alaska Native individual perceptions of health and well-being. Therefore, my research aims to help identify social patterns regarding changes in the food that individuals and communities eat and possible effects the changes have on all aspects of health; it aims to help document how Alaska Native individuals and communities are adaptive and resilient; and it aims to honor, acknowledge, and highlight the personal perspectives and lived experiences of respondents and their views regarding food, health, and community well-being. I conducted interviews with 20 Alaska Native participants in an effort to document their perspectives regarding these changes. Many themes emerged from the data related to subsistence, dependency, and adaptation. Alaska Natives have witnessed what Western researchers call a "nutritional transition." However, Alaska Native participants in my research describe this transition as akin to cultural genocide. Cut off from traditional hunting and fishing (both geographically and economically), Alaska Natives recognize the damage to individual and community health. Studies attribute rising rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and mental illness to the loss of culture attached to subsistence lifestyles and subsistence foods themselves. Alaska Natives report a decrease in cultural knowledge and traditional hunting skills being passed to the younger generations. Concern for the future of upcoming generations is a reoccurring theme, especially in regard to dependence on market foods. When asked what changes should be made, nearly all respondents emphasized education as the key to cultural sustainability and self-sufficiency. The changes sought include means and access to hunting and fishing. This is seen as the remedy for dependence on Outside resources. From a traditional Alaska Native perspective, food security cannot be satisfied with Western industrial products. When considering Arctic community health and cultural sustainability, food security must be considered in both Western and Indigenous Ways. Control over local availability, accessibility, quality, and cultural appropriateness is imperative to Native well-being. Many participants point to differences in Western and Native definitions of what is acceptable nourishment. Imported processed products simply cannot fully meet the needs of Native people. Reasons cited for this claim include risky reliance on a corporate food system designed for profit with its inherent lack of culturally-appropriate, nutrient-dense, locally controlled options. Respondents are concerned that junk food offers dependable, affordable, available, and accessible calories, whereas traditional foods often are not as reliably accessible. Based on these findings, I named the concept of "nutritional colonialism." Respondents expressed a desire to return to sustainable and self-sufficient subsistence diets with their cultural, emotional, social, spiritual, and physical benefits. Although they expressed concern regarding climate change and environmental pollutants, this did not diminish the significance of traditional foods for respondents.

Book Alaskan Native Food Practices  Customs  and Holidays

Download or read book Alaskan Native Food Practices Customs and Holidays written by Karen Halderson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares traditional and current food sources and customs of Native Alaskans, and provides modified recipes with nutrient analysis. Also included are a glossary of traditional foods, and nutrient evaluations and supplementary exchange lists for these foods. A sample meal pattern for Yupik Eskimo with NIDDM reinforces current nutrition recommendations from the American Diabetes Association. Explores the implications of these recommendations for counselors of Alaska Native clients with NIDDM.

Book The Whale and the Supercomputer

Download or read book The Whale and the Supercomputer written by Charles Wohlforth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first --and hardest.

Book Cook Inlet Planning Area  Oil and Gas Lease Sales 191 and 199

Download or read book Cook Inlet Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sales 191 and 199 written by United States. Minerals Management Service. Alaska OCS Region and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northwest National Petroleum Reserve    Alaska

Download or read book Northwest National Petroleum Reserve Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arctic Research of the United States

Download or read book Arctic Research of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Health Transitions in Arctic Populations

Download or read book Health Transitions in Arctic Populations written by Peter Bjerregaard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic regions are inhabited by diverse populations, both indigenous and non-indigenous. Health Transitions in Arctic Populations describes and explains changing health patterns in these areas, how particular patterns came about, and what can be done to improve the health of Arctic peoples. This study correlates changes in health status with major environmental, social, economic, and political changes in the Arctic. T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard seek commonalities in the experiences of different peoples while recognizing their considerable diversity. They focus on five Arctic regions – Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia, offering a general overview of the geography, history, economy, population characteristics, health status, and health services of each. The discussion moves on to specific indigenous populations (Inuit, Dene, and Sami), major health determinants and outcomes, and, finally, an integrative examination of what can be done to improve the health of circumpolar peoples. Health Transitions in Arctic Populations offers both an examination of key health issues in the north and a vision for the future of Arctic inhabitants.

Book Cook Inlet Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sales 191 and 199

Download or read book Cook Inlet Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sales 191 and 199 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska Outer Continental Shelf  Seismic Surveys in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

Download or read book Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Seismic Surveys in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: