Ciulinerunak yuuyaqunak = Do not live without an elder : the subsistence way of life in southwest Alaska / translated and transcribed by Alice Rearden ; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, editor.

Language:

English

Yupik languages

Subjects (All):

Yupik Eskimos--History.

Yupik Eskimos.

Yupik Eskimos--Social life and customs.

Subsistence farming--Alaska.

Subsistence farming.

Subsistence fishing--Alaska.

Subsistence fishing.

Subsistence hunting--Alaska.

Subsistence hunting.

Yupik languages--Texts.

Yupik languages.

History.

Alaska.

Genre:

History.

Texts.

Physical Description:

xii, 364 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Do not live without an elder

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2016]

Language Note:

Text in English and Yupik.

Summary:

"In October of 2010, six men who were serving on the board of the Calista Elders Council (CEC) gathered in Anchorage with CEC staff to spend three days speaking about the subsistence way of life. The men shared stories of their early years growing up on the land and harvesting through the seasons, and the dangers they encountered there. The gathering was striking for its regional breadth, as elders came from the Bering Sea coast as well as the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. And while their accounts had some commonalities, they also served to demonstrate the wide range of different approaches to subsistence in different regions. This book gathers the men's stories for the current generation and those to come. Taken together, they become more than simply oral histories--rather, they testify to the importance of transmitting memories and culture and of preserving knowledge of vanishing ways of life"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ciulinerunak yuuyaqunak =.

ISBN:

9781602232976

1602232970

OCLC:

944087119