| Description |
1 online resource (liv, 441 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Nightmute and Toksook Bay -- The Ocean -- Qalvinraaq River and Its Tributaries -- Chefornak -- Newtok and Tununak. |
| Summary |
"In this volume Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape, from camp and village sites to tiny sloughs and deep ocean channels, contextualizing them through stories of how people interacted with them in the past and continue to know them today. The stories provide a rich, descriptive historical record and detail the ways in which land use has changed over time. Nelson Islanders maintained a strongly Yup'ik worldview and subsistence lifestyle through the 1940s, living in small settlements and moving with the seasonal cycle of plant and animal abundances. The last sixty years have brought dramatic changes, including the concentration of people into five permanent, year-round villages. |
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The elders have mapped significant places to help perpetuate an active relationship between the land and the people who continue to rely on the fluctuating bounty of the Bering Sea coastal environment. Alice Rearden is the primary translator for the Calista Elders Council."--Description from Univ. of Washington Press. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Nelson Island -- Interviews.
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Yupik Eskimos. |
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Alaska -- Nelson Island. |
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Interviews.
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| Subject |
Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Nelson Island -- History.
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History. |
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Yupik Eskimos -- Alaska -- Nelson Island -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Geographical perception -- Alaska -- Nelson Island.
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Geographical perception. |
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Place attachment -- Alaska -- Nelson Island.
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Place attachment. |
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Yupik languages -- Texts.
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Yupik languages. |
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Texts.
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| Subject |
Nelson Island (Alaska) -- Social life and customs.
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Nelson Island (Alaska) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Rearden, Alice.
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Fienup-Riordan, Ann.
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Calista Elders Council.
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| Added Title |
our Nelson Island stories : meanings of place on the Bering Sea coast |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Qaluyaarmiuni nunamtenek qanemciput. Bethel : Calista Elders Council in association with University of Washington Press, ©2011 9780295991351 (DLC) 2011005957 (OCoLC)706677488 |
| ISBN |
9780295804750 (electronic book) |
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0295804750 (electronic book) |
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9780295991351 |
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0295991356 |
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