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Memory and landscape : Indigenous responses to a changing North / edited by Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes.

Pratt, Kenneth L. (editor.). Heyes, Scott A. (editor.).

Summary:

The North is changing at an unprecedented rate as industrial development and the climate crisis disrupt not only the environment but also long-standing relationships to the land and traditional means of livelihood. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have adapted to challenging circumstances, including past cultural and environmental changes.

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  • ISBN: 9781771993159 (softcover)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 394 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Note on Orthography and Terminology -- Introduction -- Part One: Indigenous History and Identity. Perspective: Our Land / Vinnie Baron and Felix St-Aubin -- 1 What "Really Happened": A Migration Narrative from Southeast Alaska Compared to Archaeological and Geological Data / Aron L. Crowell -- 2 Inuvialuit Ethnonyms and Toponyms as a Reflection of Identity, Language, and Memory / Murielle Nagy -- 3 Wandering in Place: A Close Examination of Two Names at Nunivak Island / Robert Droxda -- 4 Berry Harvesting in the Eastern Arctic: An Enduring Expression of Inuit Women's Identity / Martha Dowsley, Scott A. Heyes, and Williams Stolz -- Part Two: Forces of Change. Perspective: But Who Am I? / Apay'u Moore -- 5 Places of Memory, Anticipation, and Agitation in Northwest Greenland / Mark Nuttall -- 6 "The Country Keeps Changing": Cultural and Historical Contexts of Ecosystem Changes in the Yukon Delta / Kenneth L. Pratt -- 7 Inventing the Copper River: Maps and the Colonization of Ahtna Lands / William E. Simeone -- 8 Inuit Identity and the Land: Toward Distinctive Built Form in the Nunavik Homeland / Scott A. Heyes and Peter Jacobs -- Part Three: Knowing the Land. Perspective: Diitsii Diitsuu Nąįį Gooveenjit--For Our Ancestors / Evon Peter -- 9 Place-Naming Strategies in Inuit-Yupik and Dene Languages in Alaska / Gary Holton -- 10 Watershed Ethnoecology in Yup'ik Place Names of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta / Louann Rank -- 11 Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names from the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut / Peter C. Dawson, Collen Hughes, Donald Butler, and Kenneth Buck -- 12 Indigenous Place Names in the Senyavin Strait Area, Chukotka / Michael A. Chlenov, with an introduction by Igor Krupnik -- Appendix: Northern Animal Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Subject: Indigenous peoples > Arctic regions > Social life and customs.
Economic development > Arctic regions.
Climatic changes > Arctic regions.
Human ecology > Arctic regions.
Arctic peoples > Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples > North America.
Topic Heading: Indigenous.
Inuit Canada.
First Nations Canada.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.

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Foreword xiii
Hugh Brody
Note on Orthography and Terminology xvii
Introduction 3(16)
Part One Indigenous History and Identity
Perspective: Our Land
19(6)
Vinnie Baron
Felix St-Aubin
1 What "Really Happened": A Migration Narrative from Southeast Alaska Compared to Archaeological and Geological Data
25(32)
Aron L. Crowell
2 Inuvialuit Ethnonyms and Toponyms as a Reflection of Identity, Language, and Memory
57(24)
Murielle Nagy
3 Wandering in Place: A Close Examination of Two Names at Nunivak Island
81(38)
Robert Drozda
4 Berry Harvesting in the Eastern Arctic: An Enduring Expression of Inuit Women's Identity
119(32)
Martha Dowsley
Scott A. Heyes
Anna Bunce
Williams Stolz
Part Two Forces of Change
Perspective: But Who Am I?
151(6)
Apay'u Moore
5 Places of Memory, Anticipation, and Agitation in Northwest Greenland
157(22)
Mark Nuttall
6 "The Country Keeps Changing": Cultural and Historical Contexts of Ecosystem Changes in the Yukon Delta
179(36)
Kenneth L. Pratt
7 Inventing the Copper River: Maps and the Colonization of Ahtna Lands
215(30)
William E. Simeone
8 Inuit Identity and the Land: Toward Distinctive Built Form in the Nunavik Homeland
245(26)
Scott A. Heyes
Peter Jacobs
Part Three Knowing the Land
Perspective: Diitsii Diitsuu Naii Gooveenjit--For Our Ancestors
271(6)
Evon Peter
9 Place-Naming Strategies in Inuit-Yupik and Dene Languages in Alaska
277(20)
Gary Holton
10 Watershed Ethnoecology in Yup'ik Place Names of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
297(20)
Louann Rank
11 Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names from the Kivalliq Region ofNunavut
317(20)
Peter C. Dawson
Colleen Hughes
Donald Butler
Kenneth Buck
12 Indigenous Place Names in the Senyavin Strait Area, Chukotka
337(36)
Michael A. Chlenov
Igor Krupnik
Appendix: Northern Animal Illustrations 373(8)
List of Contributors 381(5)
Index 386


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