Ann Fienup-Riordan

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Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today

Rutgers University Press

The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century, especially after the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, the Yup'ik people witnessed and experienced explosive cultural changes. Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan explores how these subarctic hunters engage in a "hunt" for history, to make connections within their own communities and between them and the larger world. She turns to the Yupiit themselves, joining her essays with eloquent narratives by individual Yupiit, which illuminate their hunting traditions in their own words.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Eskimo Essays

Yup'ik Lives and How We See Them

Rutgers University Press

This examination of the ideology and practice of the Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwestern Alaska includes traditions, ideology, relations with Christianity, warfare, use of animals, law and order, and the non-native perception of the Yup'ik way of life.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Artists Behind the Work

Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut

University of Alaska Press, Alaska UA Museum
  • Copyright year: 1986
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Words of the Real People

Alaska Native Literature in Translation

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Yupiit Yuraryarait

Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska

Conversations with Father René Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup’ik People

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring

The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder

The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska

Edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan; Translated by Alice Rearden
University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell

Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2017
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Akulmiut Neqait / Fish and Food of the Akulmiut

University of Alaska Press

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This bilingual book details the lives of Yup'ik people--the Akulmiut--living in the lake country west of Bethel, Alaska, in the villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak. For centuries, Akulmiut have been sustained by the annual movements of whitefish. If there is one food that defines them, it is whitefish.
Although people use the term "whitefish" when speaking in English, there is no direct translation in the Yup'ik language. Instead Yup'ik people use more than a dozen words to talk about the different species, ages, and sizes of "whitefish" in their region.
To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions with each other, as having a direct and profound effect on these fish. Not only are fish viewed as responding to human action and intention in many contexts, but the lakes and rivers fish inhabit are likewise viewed as sentient beings with the ability to respond both positively and negatively to those who travel there.
Change is profound in southwest Alaska, but the conversations recorded here--in both Yup'ik and English--are testament to the fact that a uniquely Yup'ik view of the world remains. While many predicted that globalization would sound the death knoll for distinctive traditions, instead indigenous people all over the planet have sought to appropriate the world in their own terms. For all their new connectedness, the continued relevance of traditional admonitions, many feel, cannot be denied.
Elders today suffer over the fact that many contemporary youth do not know their history. They meet this ignorance by actively sharing their view of the world. As the late Johnny Berlin said, "When they read what we've said, they will learn more about us."
 
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This book details the relationship between Yup'ik people--the Akulmiut--living in the lake country west of Bethel, Alaska, and the whitefish which for centuries have sustained them.
To this day, many Akulmiut view not only their actions in the world, but their interactions with each other, as having a profound effect on these fish. Not only are fish viewed as responding to human action and intention, but the lakes and rivers fish inhabit are likewise viewed as sentient beings with the ability to respond both positively and negatively to those who travel there. Although much has changed in southwest Alaska over the years, a distinctly Yup'ik view of the world cannot be denied.
 
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This bilingual book details the relationship between Yup'ik people--the Akulmiut--living in the lake country west of Bethel, Alaska, and the whitefish which for centuries have sustained them.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut/They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground

Animal Essays from Southwest Alaska

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine

Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska

University of Alaska Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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