Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Subsistence Land Use Across the Kobuk Preserve
Watson A. 2018. Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Subsistence Land Use Across the Kobuk Preserve. NPS/GAAR/CRR-2018/001. National Park Service. Fairbanks, Alaska
This is a cultural anthropological overview of the Native peoples and land use associated with the southern preserve unit of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. This includes the Kuuvanmiit peoples of the Upper Kobuk River area and their expansion into the Alatna River drainage, and the Koyukon Athabascan peoples who currently live on the Koyukuk River. The ethnographic and historical overview weaves the multiple strands of the different Native groups into a cohesive cultural, historical, and interpretive framework, including traditional and contemporary land use. The data for this project comes from existing published research, unpublished research, archival and oral history resources, but also more than 70 contemporary interviews with elders and active subsistence users across the region. Analysis of the data includes spatial data within a GIS, to understand land use change within this Arctic woodland social-ecological system.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Watson, Annette
- Date of Issue
- 2018-12
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GAAR
- Keywords
- arctic, cultural anthropology, ethnography, history, Koyukon, Kuuvanmiit, oral history, subsistence