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Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact
University of Alaska Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-1-60223-369-0 | Paper: 978-1-60223-368-3 Library of Congress Classification E99.E7L5495 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 979.86
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in the Kobuk River area. But their status was forever transformed thanks to two major factors. They faced a food shortage prompted by the decline in caribou, one of their major foods. This was also the time when European and Asian trade items were first introduced into their traditional society. The first trade items to arrive, a decade ahead of the Europeans themselves, were glass beads and pieces of metal that the Inupiat expertly incorporated into their traditional implements. This book integrates ethnohistoric, bio-anthropological, archaeological, and oral historical analyses. See other books on: Alaska | First contact with Europeans | Inupiat | Northwest Alaska | Threshold See other titles from University of Alaska Press |
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Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact
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University of Alaska Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-1-60223-369-0
Paper: 978-1-60223-368-3
eISBN: 978-1-60223-369-0
Paper: 978-1-60223-368-3
This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in the Kobuk River area. But their status was forever transformed thanks to two major factors. They faced a food shortage prompted by the decline in caribou, one of their major foods. This was also the time when European and Asian trade items were first introduced into their traditional society. The first trade items to arrive, a decade ahead of the Europeans themselves, were glass beads and pieces of metal that the Inupiat expertly incorporated into their traditional implements. This book integrates ethnohistoric, bio-anthropological, archaeological, and oral historical analyses.
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