From hunters to herders: The transformation of earth, society, and heaven among the Inupiat of Beringia

Ellanna LJ and Sherrod GK. 2004. From hunters to herders: The transformation of earth, society, and heaven among the Inupiat of Beringia. U.S. National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office. Anchorage, Alaska

This study focuses on the lives of a group of Inupiaq reindeer herders living on the northern Seward Peninsula. This ethnohistorical study focuses on the lives of a group of Inupiaq reindeer herders living at the winter reindeer herding and seal hunting settlement of Ublasaun on the northern Seward Peninsula between 1918 and 1925. The author focuses on Thomas Makaiqtaq Barr and his family and associates, who herded reindeer and hunted seals at Ublasaun, near the present community of Shishmaref.

Type
Book
Authors
Ellanna, Linda; Sherrod, George
Date of Issue
2004-08
Publisher
U.S. National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office
Units
BELA , HIST
Keywords
Beringia, Cultural Resources, ehistory, hunters, Inupiat, reindeer herders

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