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Excerpt from the Introduction: "This report characterizes the achievements of the Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc.'s Tribal Environmental Restoration Program (TERP) during the 1999 calendar year. The report first introduces the reader to the history behind the development of TERP. Secondly, the report discusses the organization and intent of the TERP program. The remainder of the report reviews the various services performed by TERP program staff and the activities conducted by participating Tribal Liaison Officers to assess military impacts to TCC Tribes. For example, the regional report reviews the historical context of military impacts in Interior Alaska. Similarly, the report reviews the various levels of technical...
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For over 1,000 years the Ahtna Athabascan people have fished for salmon in the Copper River and its tributatries. During that time they have gained a considerable knowledge of the salmon. THis report provides an overview of that knowledge including information on the Ahtna taxonomy of salmon and other fish, salmon life history, factors influencing the movement of salmon, harvesting devices and the preparation of fish, the traditional management system, and legends and stories about salmon.
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The 7 Generations manual is designed for people in rural Alaska who want to accomplish environmental planning and management using a community-based approach. The manual contains valuable tools that enable a community to prioritize and identify its environmental issues. This manual was written to assist communities to be more self-reliant and to take responsibility for their own environmental issues. Building community strength to identify and solve problems is a powerful process that can lead to a healthier and more sustainable community. A community driven by the interests of its members will have a greater sense of ownership and pride in its accomplishments. A self-governing community also will have a greater...
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This thesis focuses on transactional process involved in the construction and operation of the Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group. This cooperative wildlife management mechanism gives Yup'ik commercial and subsistence fishermen and other users a direct role, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, in salmon management. Transactions involving participants' knowledge and values are described in three processes: (1) the establishment of a management body and its operating rules; (2) the mediation of power in decision-making; and, (3) fishery management which uses both "science" and "fishermen's knowledge." Results indicate that through cooperation in decision-making, data gathering, and other management...
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This research combines Ahtna environmental knowledge with data from the biological and social sciences to document changes in the upper Copper River salmon fishery. Information in this report covers the period from 1989 to 2004. Ahtna elders have observed that over time, fisheries management and competition from other users have adversely affected the productivity of subsistence harvests. The Ahtna attribute effects on salmon spawning in the headwaters of the Copper River to environmental pollution and interception by commercial and recreational fishers. Since 1889, when the commercial fishing industry began, historical reports document various effects on Copper River salmon stocks and subsistence harvests. The...
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Co-management is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship and co-management researchers use concepts and methods drawn from a range of scholarly and applied disciplines. This is reflected in the papers included in this issue, and authors draw on analytical frameworks in anthropology, conservation ecology, environmental studies, geography, law, political and policy science, history and resource management. For example, [Harvey A. Feit] uses ethnohistory, resource management, analyses of bureaucratic practices and, with others, post-Foucauldian analyses of the state; Goetze uses conflict management, confidence-building theory and the international legal recognition of Indigenous rights, among other frameworks. Furthermore,...
Traditional aboriginal caribou-hunting peoples in northern Canada moved seasonally on the land until the late 1950s and this relationship is thousands of years old (Gordon 1996). Archaeological evidence in the Yukon shows that the relationship between humans and caribou in some parts of the Canadian North is up to 25 000 years old (Cinq-Mars 2001). The distribution of many Dene peoples anticipated the changing migratory movements of the barren ground caribou, especially before settlement. A recent economic valuation of just two of these barren ground herds (the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds) found that the domestic hunt of the more than 13 000 aboriginal peoples living on the ranges of these herds has an equivalent...
Past attempts by economists and anthropologists to conceptualize and value culture loss suggest that greater effort is needed to open up new dialogues that recognize the perspectives of all actors present in resource valuation processes. Economic methods employed to value social and material goods associated with indigenous peoples' "sense of place" in the Arctic region develop only a portion of a more holistic problem of resource valuation for indigenous peoples practicing subsistence based livelihoods. Anthropological approaches to culture loss and valuation attempt a more holistic understanding a indigenous peoples’ sense of place, highlighting the uneven power relations embedded in the politics of resource valuation....
If you are interested in applying for SRC membership, contact the Superintendent or visit the park Web site at: http://www.nps.gov.gaar/contacts.htm. National Park Service Reports a. Ranger Update b. Resource Management Update c. Subsistence Manager's Report 15.
The Canadian North finds itself in a period of Canadian history with unprecedented levels of social and environmental complexity, political uncertainty and economic change. Within the Mackenzie River valley of the Northwest Territories, major industrial resource development projects are underway. At the same time, innovative natural resource management (NRM) governance institutions are being proposed. This dissertation explores how socio-cultural and political practices enable people to become institutional bricoleurs in resource management. From Déline, Northwest Territories, I examined how outside resource managers from federal and territorial governments, environmental non-government organizations, and aboriginal...
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A correction to the article "Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska" by Patricia Cochran, Orville H. Huntington, and Stanley Tom that was published in the June 2014 issue is presented.
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Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) about salmon is held and practiced by local fishers and elders in Central Yup'ik, Deg'Hitan and Koyukon communities of the Yukon River. At present this information contributes little to fisheries management on the Yukon River. At the direction of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, to better understand changing salmon runs, Alaska Native fishers in the communities of Alakanuk, St. Mary's, Holy Cross, and Nulato were interviewed about their observations, knowledge and understanding of king salmon populations and behavior. Participants provided a variety of examples of TEK indicators describing salmon arrival time and run strength. Utilization of TEK increases the...
The increase in collaborative projects involving American Indian tribes and natural resource management agencies in the United States reflects two emergent trends: 1) the use of collaborative approaches between agencies and groups in managing natural resources; and 2) the concurrent increased recognition of American Indian rights, institutionalization of consultation processes, and a general movement of Indian self-determination. This article focuses on institutional mechanisms that bring together tribes and natural resource management agencies in collaborative processes to achieve mutually desired resource management objectives. Using qualitative analysis of data from ten collaborative projects across the United...
map background search result map search result map The Atna' and the Political Ecology of the Copper River Fishery, Alaska Co-management as transaction: The Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group Co-management and Indigenous Communities: Barriers and Bridges to Decentralized Resource Management: Introduction Evaluating alternative forest management strategies for the Champagne and Aishihik Traditional Territory, southwest Yukon Conflicting Understandings of Wilderness and Subsistence in Alaskan National Parks Traditional knowledge and fishing practices of the Ahtna of the Copper River, Alaska Ahtna knowledge of long-term changes in salmon runs in the Upper Copper River drainage, Alaska Listen to our elders: Investigating traditional ecological knowledge of salmon in communities of the Lower and Middle Yukon River Uqausriptigun : in our own words : Selawik elders speak about caribou, reindeer, and life as they knew it Tanana Chiefs Conference's Tribal Environmental Restoration Program's (TERP) 1999 Final Report on Military Impacts to Tribes in Interior Alaska Indigenous Consent and Natural Resource Extraction Uqausriptigun : in our own words : Selawik elders speak about caribou, reindeer, and life as they knew it Evaluating alternative forest management strategies for the Champagne and Aishihik Traditional Territory, southwest Yukon Ahtna knowledge of long-term changes in salmon runs in the Upper Copper River drainage, Alaska Conflicting Understandings of Wilderness and Subsistence in Alaskan National Parks The Atna' and the Political Ecology of the Copper River Fishery, Alaska Traditional knowledge and fishing practices of the Ahtna of the Copper River, Alaska Listen to our elders: Investigating traditional ecological knowledge of salmon in communities of the Lower and Middle Yukon River Co-management as transaction: The Kuskokwim River Salmon Management Working Group Tanana Chiefs Conference's Tribal Environmental Restoration Program's (TERP) 1999 Final Report on Military Impacts to Tribes in Interior Alaska Co-management and Indigenous Communities: Barriers and Bridges to Decentralized Resource Management: Introduction Indigenous Consent and Natural Resource Extraction