Kobuk Valley National Park: Traditional Affiliation Scoping Study
Deur D, Devinney E, Wynia K, Atkinson H. 2017. Kobuk Valley National Park: Traditional Affiliation Scoping Study. National Park Service
This report represents a collaborative effort to scope a planned National Park Service Traditional Use Study (TUS) for Kobuk Valley National Park (KOVA), and to carry out tribal consultation and planning in support of this effort. The scoping effort centered upon the ties between the park and the Kuuvangmiut community of Kiana, Alaska—one of six predominantly Inupiaq Eskimo communities with deep traditional cultural ties to the lands and resources encompassed within the park. On the basis of this effort, the lead author and NPS staff will conduct a TUS addressing historic and contemporary resources of cultural significance to the Native community of Kiana, as well as expanding the scope of investigations to include Ambler and possibly other communities traditionally associated with Kobuk Valley. Importantly, the current document is not a stand-alone report for such a Traditional Use Study, but a compendium of information that will guide and, in time, be integrated into a future study report.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Deur, Doug; Devinney, Eileen; Wynia, Katie; Atkinson, Hannah
- Date of Issue
- 2017
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- KOVA
- Keywords
- Ethnography, Kiana, Kobuk Dunes, Kobuk Valley, Onion Portage, Traditional Use