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Akulmiut neqait: fish and food of the Akulmiut

dc.contributor.authorFienup-Riordan, Ann, author
dc.contributor.authorMeade, Marie, author
dc.contributor.authorRearden, Alice, author
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Alaska Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-30T16:53:40Z
dc.date.available2023-03-30T16:53:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractIn fall 2014, Calista Education and Culture, Inc. (CEC, formerly Calista Elders Council) began a four-year study funded by the Office of Subsistence Management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The study focused on whitefish and other non-salmon freshwater fish harvested by residents of the Akulmiut villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak, as well as those living along the Kuskokwim River just below Bethel in the villages of Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Oscarville. Harvest studies have been carried out in some of these communities (Ikuta, Brown, and Koester, ed. 2014) as well as two major ethnographic studies--one in Napaskiak (Oswalt 1963) and one in Nunapitchuk (Andrews 1989). Our intended focus was not on harvest amounts but rather traditional knowledge surrounding the harvest and use of the six species of whitefish, as well as pike, burbot, and blackfish, on which people from this area relied so heavily in the past and continue to harvest to this day. In fact, all three contemporary Akulmiut villages, as well as settlements in the past, were established at sites where fish fences were built across the river each fall to intercept whitefish as they migrated out of the lakes and sloughs toward the mainstem of the Kuskokwim River. If there is one food that defines people from this area, it is whitefish.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsFish throughout the year -- Knowing the land and wilderness -- Care of fish and food -- All things have awareness -- Our world and weather are changing -- Yup'ik transcription and translation -- THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT. Food and family -- Fish throughout the year -- Hunting and fur trapping -- Food shortage -- Taking care of fish and food -- All things have awareness.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/236374
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity of Alaska Press
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dc.subject.lcshYupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta -- Social life and customs
dc.subject.lcshYupik Eskimos -- Food -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
dc.subject.lcshYupik Eskimos -- Fishing
dc.subject.lcshSubsistence fishing -- Alaska, Southwest
dc.subject.lcshTraditional ecological knowledge -- Alaska, Southwest
dc.subject.lcshWhitefish fisheries -- Alaska, Southwest
dc.subject.lcshYukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska) -- Social life and customs
dc.subject.lcshEthnology -- Alaska -- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region
dc.subject.lcshOlder Yupik Eskimos -- Interviews
dc.subject.lcshCentral Yupik language -- Texts
dc.titleAkulmiut neqait: fish and food of the Akulmiut
dc.title.alternativeFish and food of the Akulmiut
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