Akulmiut neqait : fish and food of the Akulmiut / Ann Fienup-Riordan, Marie Meade, and Alice Rearden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fienup-Riordan, Ann, author.

Meade, Marie, author.

Rearden, Alice, author.

Contributor:

Calista Education and Culture (Organization), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Central Yupik language.

Older Yupik Eskimos.

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska)--Social life and customs.

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Alaska).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in English and Yupik.

Summary:

"In fall 2014, Calista Education and Culture, Inc. (CEC, formerly Calista Elders Council) began a four-year study funded by the Office of Subsistence Management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The study focused on whitefish and other non-salmon freshwater fish harvested by residents of the Akulmiut villages of Kasigluk, Nunapitchuk, and Atmautluak, as well as those living along the Kuskokwim River just below Bethel in the villages of Napaskiak, Napakiak, and Oscarville. Harvest studies have been carried out in some of these communities (Ikuta, Brown, and Koester, ed. 2014) as well as two major ethnographic studies--one in Napaskiak (Oswalt 1963) and one in Nunapitchuk (Andrews 1989). Our intended focus was not on harvest amounts but rather traditional knowledge surrounding the harvest and use of the six species of whitefish, as well as pike, burbot, and blackfish, on which people from this area relied so heavily in the past and continue to harvest to this day. In fact, all three contemporary Akulmiut villages, as well as settlements in the past, were established at sites where fish fences were built across the river each fall to intercept whitefish as they migrated out of the lakes and sloughs toward the mainstem of the Kuskokwim River. If there is one food that defines people from this area, it is whitefish."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations / Tarenrat Nunanguat-llu

Acknowledgments / Quyavikelput

Introduction / Kalikam Ayagnera

Understanding "Whitefish" / Whitefish-at Neqet Ayuquciat

The Akulmiut Region and Seasonal Round / Akulmiut Allrakum Iluani Pingnatutullrat

Kasigluk Gathering / Kassiglumi Quyurtellrat

Food and Family / Neqet Ilakutaqellriit-llu

Fish Throughout the Year / Neqet Allrakum Iluani

Nanvarpak Lake / Nanvarpak

Landlocked Akakiiget / Arulailkat

The Time When Nanvarpak Dies / Nanvarpak Nalaluni

Akakiiget Rearing Grounds / Akakiiget Irniviit

Fish Fences and Large Fish Traps / Caputet Taluyarpiit-llu

Fish Migrations Upriver / Neqet Asgulallrat

Fish Out-migration during Fall and Spring / Neqet Anyullrat

Fish Migrations along Petmigtalek River / Petmigtalegmi Neqet Kuimaryaraat

What Fish Eat / Neqet Neqait

Blackfish / Can'giiret

Pike / Luqruuyiit

Knowing the Land and Wilderness / Nunam Yuilqum-llu Nallunritellra

Hunting and Fishing Areas / Pissurviit Neqsurviit-llu

Travel Routes and Portages / Ayagayarat Tevyarat-llu

Place Names / Nunat Atrit

Fall and Winter Fur Trapping / Uksuarmi Uksumi-llu Melqulegculallrat

Muskrat Hunting in Spring / Kanaqlagculallrat Up'nerkami

Care of Fish and Food / Neqet Auluksaraat

Taking Care of Fish and Food / Neq'liuryaraq

Women's Lives / Arnat Yuuciat

Women's Ways of Processing Fish / Arnat Neq'liuryarait

Care of Bones and Fish Scraps / Enret Neqallret-llu Auluksarait

All Things Have Awareness / Cat Tamarmeng Ellangqertut

Abstinence Practices / Eyagyarat

Those Abstaining Following Their First Menstruation / Aglenrraat

Other-Than-Human Persons / Ircenrraat

Its Conclusion / Iqua

Our World and Weather Are Changing / Ellavut Ciminguq

Weather Indicators / Ellam Nallunailkutai.

Environmental Change / Ellam Cimingellra

Beavers / Paluqtaat

Food Shortage / Piitnaq

Youth Need to Hear Admonishments / Ayagyuat Niitarkaugait Inerquutet

Hunting and Fishing Regulations Today / Pissuryaram Neqsuryaram-llu Inerquutai

Conclusion / Kalikam Iqua

Yup'ik Transcription and Translation / Yugtun Igautellrit Kass'atun-llu Mumigtellrit

Things We Talked About / Qalarutkelput

Food and Family / Neqkatgun Ilakucaraq

Men's Lives / Angutet Yuuciat

Personal Stories / Yuullermeggni Atullermeggnek Qanemciit

Large Fish Traps and Fish Fences / Taluyarpiit Caputet-llu

Fish Migrations / Neqet Asgulallrat

Hunting and Fur Trapping / Pissurluteng Melqulegcurluteng-llu

Taking Care of Fish and Food / Neq'liuryarat

Broad Whitefish / Akakiiget

Humpback Whitefish / Cingikegglit

Pike / Luqruyiit

Sheefish and Burbot / Ciiret Manignat-llu

Kuskokwim River Fish / Kusquqvagmiutaat Neqet

A Festive Mixture / Akutaq

Foods That Have Adverse Effects / Nernerrluut

Abstinence Rules / Eyagyarat

Notes

Fish Names / Neqet Atrit

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fienup-Riordan, Ann Akulmiut Neqait / Fish and Food of the Akulmiut

ISBN:

9781646424306

1646424301

OCLC:

1360515436