Download or read book The I upiat and Arctic Alaska written by Norman Allee Chance and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the social, economic and political conditions of the Inupiat people of the north slope area of Alaska covers their history, traditions and adaptation to current industrial activity such as oil explorations, with a case study of the village of Kaktovik.
Download or read book The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska written by Norman Allee Chance and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Light Breaking written by Nick Jans and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his home in remote Eskimo Village, Nick Jans leads us into a vast, magical world: Alaska's Brooks Range. Drawn from fourteen years of arctic experience, The Last Light Breaking offers a rare perspective on America's last great wilderness and its people--the Inupiat Natives, an ancient culture on the cusp of change. Making a poignant connection between the world he describes and the world of the Inupiat once knew, Nick Jans invokes with stunning power, the life of the Eskimos in the harsh arctic and the mystical aura of the wilderness of the far North. With the eye of an outdoorsman and the heart of a poet, Jans weaves together these 23 essays with strands of native American narrative, making vivid a place where wolves and grizzlies still roam free, hunters follow the caribou, and old women cast their nets in the dust as they have for countless generations. But looming on the horizon is the world of roads and modern technology; the future has already arrived in the form of stop signs, computers, and satellite dishes. Jans creates unforgettable images of a proud people facing an uncertain future, and of his own journey through this haunting timeless landscape.
Download or read book Inupiat and Arctic Alaska written by Jeff Leebrick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life in Northwest Alaska written by Ernest S. Burch and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Download or read book Not All Spirits Are of God written by Jerome Lofgren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling Arctic Adventure of the Inupiat Whaling people of Northwest Alaska.
Download or read book Whale Snow written by Chie Sakakibara and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt a connection to. In the contemporary environmental imagination, whales are charismatic megafauna feeding our environmentalism and aspirations for a better and more sustainable future. Using multispecies ethnography, Whale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms “the human” through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change. In this time of ecological transition, exploring multispecies relatedness is crucial as it keeps social capacities to adapt relational, elastic, and resilient. In the Arctic, climate, culture, and human resilience are connected through bowhead whaling. In Whale Snow we see how climate change disrupts this ancient practice and, in the process, affects a vital expression of Indigenous sovereignty. Ultimately, though, this book offers a story of hope grounded in multispecies resilience.
Download or read book Arctic Heart written by Shinan Barclay and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic Heart forges the natural world into a luminous classroom of soul. A decade before the Alaska pipeline, Shinan Barclay joined Iñupiat Eskimos creating thread from caribou tendons, mukluks and parkas from seal skin, and kayaks from walrus hides. Told with disarming innocence, this heroine's journey is an elemental tale of finding truths about human nature--that laughter, sharing and goodwill count far more than material possessions. Set miles above the Arctic Circle, nineteen-year-old Shinan Barclay encounters a mystical spirituality. In 1962, leaving her parents' home in Southern California, she answers a missionary's call to convert the "pagans" (Eskimos) of northern Alaska. During the dark months of winter she falls through the ice and undergoes a crisis of her cradle faith, resulting in a story few could tell. Irrevocably shaped by the Arctic and its native people, Shinan presents a moving portrait of her funny, difficult, and often confusing passage into adulthood. Layered with courage, kindness, and serendipity, Barclay's storytelling artistry extends from whimsy and candor to theological inquiries and socioeconomic insights. Arctic Heart authenticates a society unknown to most and illustrates cross-cultural respect. Flashbacks link to the shared youth of The Baby Boomers. Seventy-five chapters include vivid journal notes and letters written during that northernmost adventure as well as the author's photos, and an annotated bibliography. Widely published, Shinan Barclay's stories appear in Japanese, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, French, and Spanish. She is the niece of world-renowned authors Rollo May (Love and Will) and Gerald G. May (Addiction and Grace).
Download or read book The Alaska North Slope Inupiat Eskimo and Resource Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of the public debate on whether to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to oil development has focussed on the changes such development may bring to the quality of the environment. In most people's minds, however, that environment consists of vast stretches of tundra and thousands of migrating caribou. Man is there also. One-hundred eighty-six Inupiat Eskimo live in Kaktovik, and 243 Athabascan Indians live in the villages of Arctic Village and Venetie .... While small in number, these people depend heavily on wildlife resources such as the caribou. In Kaktovik, for example, caribou contribute between 10 and 25 percent of the total (including purchased) meat and fish eaten (Pederson, 1990). Residents of Arctic Village, located in the southern foothills of the Brooks Range, annually harvest upwards of five caribou per capita. Why should we be interested in the fate of fewer than 500 people? In part because the U.S. government serves as a trustee for the interests of Native Americans; in part because these residents of the Arctic represent a small but significant part of the 200,000 northern natives peoples worldwide - many of whom have experienced remote resource developments; and finally, in part because Arctic residents are also instruments of change. We need to ask if resource developments have set in motion changes in human behavior which have had their own environmental consequences. As America faces the question of whether to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the scientific community has an opportunity to bring the experience with a decade of resource development to bear on the question of how resource development, environmental quality and man are related. Previously published analyses of the experience of the Alaska North Slope Inupiat Eskimo with the massive Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil field developments have concluded that for the most part the experience has been positive ..... This conclusion stands in marked contrast to the generally grim experiences of indigenous peoples with mining developments worldwide .... The North Slope experience would thus seem to offer an excellent comparative case. Before embarking on such a comparison, however, I first revisit the question of whether the North Slope story has indeed been as positive as generally portrayed. In the decade since the first studies were made, do the Inupiat still constitute a majority of the region's population? Are they continuing their subsistence lifestyle? Have Inupiat residents experienced real improvements in education, income, and housing? Have they experienced higher levels of social disruption? Have the Inupiat placed excessive pressures on wildlife resource populations? These are some of the questions it seems appropriate to ask before attempting to account for a successful experience with mining activity"--Leaf 1.
Download or read book The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest written by Wanni W. Anderson and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich storytelling tradition of the Inupiat of Alaska is showcased in this remarkable collection of over eighty stories. Meticulously compiled from six villages in Northwest Alaska between 1966 and 1987, the stories are presented as part of a living tradition, complete with biographies, photos, and introductory remarks by Native storytellers. Each story provides insight into the Iñupiaq worldview, human-animal relationships, and the organization of family life. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest includes a new version of the Qayaq cycle, one of the best-known legends from the region, as well as stories such as “The Fast Runner.” A major contribution to the Native literature of Alaska, this collection includes two introductory essays by Wanni W. Anderson that provide historical background and a foundation for understanding gender, age, and regional differences and the narrative context of storytelling. Stories include The Girl Who Had No Wish to Marry by Willie Goodwin, Sr., The Goose Maiden by Nora Norton, The Last War with the Indians by Wesley Woods, The Orphan with No Clothes by Emma Skin, The Qayaq Cycle by Nora Norton, and Raven Who Brought Back the Land by Robert Cleveland (selected Iñupiaq Storyteller by the Inupiat of Northwest Alaska). Additional storytellers include John Brown, Leslie Burnett, Flora Cleveland, Lois Cleveland, Maude Cleveland, Kitty Foster, Sarah Goode, Minnie Gray, Beatrice Mouse, Nellie Russell, and Andrew Skin.
Download or read book The I upiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska written by Ernest S. Burch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what distinguished anthropologist James VanStone has described as "a superb example of salvage ethnography," The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska presents a social geography of this far corner of the continent as it was during the early historic period. Author Ernest S. Burch, Jr., who has studied the area for over thirty years, contends that the Inupiaq Eskimos of northwest Alaska were organized into several autonomous societies equivalent to nations as we think of them today, but at the hunter-gatherer level of complexity. This book is a clearly written introduction to these tiny nations; it is based primarily on information the author was given by the last generation of Inupiaq elders born while oral narrative still was the primary form of historical record for their societies. The book emphasizes the identity of the nations in the region, their locations in space and time, and the numbers, lifeways, general distribution, and seasonal movements of their members. The discussion of each district includes brief summaries of previous research done there and accounts of how each nation met its demise during the second half of the nineteenth century. The work presents a substantial body of information that has never been published in book form before, and that can never be acquired again. It will endure as a major connecting link between archeological and historical research in northwest Alaska, and thus is of critical importance to understanding long-term social change in the region.
Download or read book Dawn in Arctic Alaska written by Diamond Jenness and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences and observations of anthropologist with the Stefansson Expedition.
Download or read book Gift of the Whale written by Bill Hess and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Hess -a noted photographer - began his association with the Inupiat Eskimos in 1982. Eventually, he got permission to accompany them on their historic whale hunt. This book is his record, in sensitive text and almost 200 stark images, of what he experienced. Hess explores Inupiat history and traditions juxtaposed against contemporary life, never shying away from the controversial aspects of this ancient trek. Gift of the Whale is a rare contribution to Native history.
Download or read book Raven s Children written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alliance and Conflict written by Ernest S. Burch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.
Download or read book In the United States District Court for the District of Alaska written by Mason D. Morisset and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Place Beyond written by Nick Jans and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his “found” home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among wolves, traveling with Iñupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at breakup. The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow—just a sampling of the images and events rendered in Jan’s transparent, visual prose. Moments of humor are offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful reflections on contemporary Iñupiat culture, making A Place Beyond a book to savor.
