Kuuvanmiut subsistence: Traditional Eskimo life in the latter twentieth century
Anderson DB, Anderson WW, Bane R, Nelson RK, Towarak NS. 1998. Kuuvanmiut subsistence: Traditional Eskimo life in the latter twentieth century. Shared Beringian Heritage Program, National Park Service
Enclosed in the book is a comprehensive description of subsistence activities among Kobuk villagers, viewed from as many perspectives as possible. The Kuuvanmiut Eskimos and their ancestors have lived in Kobuk River valley of northwestern Alaska for thousands of years. They are a branch of the Inupiat Eskimos, who inhabit a vast expanse of the Arctic, stretching from Alaska across northern Canada and around the coasts of Greenland. The Kuuvanmiut are among the few people in North America, indeed in the entire world, who still actively pursue a hunting-fishing-gathering lifeway and sustain themselves in major proportion by the harvest of wild resources. This study was commissioned by the National Park Service and the Northwest Alaska Native Association (NANA), to provide background information for the Kobuk Valley National Monument. The monument was then a part of pending legislation, but necessary planning for its establishment and management was already under way. The research goal was to compile an accurate and comprehensive description of subsistence activities among Kobuk villagers, viewed from as many perspectives as possible. It was also intended to provide information necessary to answer questions like those above. And it was meant to help toward clarifying concepts, such as the nature and definition of “rural Alaskan subsistence,” which have become crucial elements of laws and policies affecting village people today.
- Type
- Book
- Authors
- Anderson, Douglas; Anderson, Wanni; Bane, Ray; Nelson, Richard; Towarak, Nita
- Date of Issue
- 1998
- Publisher
- Shared Beringian Heritage Program, National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , KOVA
- Keywords
- Alaska, Caribou, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Eskimos, Fishing, gill netting, History, Hunting, Ice Fishing, Kobuk River, Kuuvanmiut, Natural Resources, Noorvik, Seine, seining, Subsistence, Subsistence Cycles, Trapping, Travel