My Side of the River

An Alaska Native Story

Elias Kelly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

346 Seiten

2023
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3509-1 (ISBN)

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In 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing-forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to colonial management doctrines. We need only look at our current Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have worked.

In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it. Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.S. fishing and hunting culture. He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditional life and resource conservation.

Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) formerly worked in forestry, fisheries, and wildlife management in Southeast Alaska, Fairbanks, Bethel, and Pilot Station. He currently works with the Lower Yukon School District.

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I
1. Hunting, Fishing, and Resource Management in Native Alaska
2. Wildlife Management
3. Yukon River Fisheries
4. Subsistence
5. Federal and State
6. Roots and Moratoriums
7. Alliance Seekers
8. Whitefish Fishing
9. Yup’ik Economics
Part II
10. Social Morals and Obligations
11. Calendar Cycles
12. Environmental Realms
13. Spiritual Realms
14. Is It Too Big?
15. More Native Teachers
16. Educational Endeavors-Poaching for Dummies
17. Sustainable Management
18. Misnomers of Management
19. Status Quo
Part III
20. Paimiut River
21. Fish and Game Hats
22. Shortsighted
23. Genetic Tributaries
24. John Paul Edwards (1971–2001)
25. River Ecology
26. Civil Obedience
27. Sense of Time
28. Lessons of Humility
29. A Whale, a Whale
Part IV
30. Bad to the Bone
31. Alaska Sovereignty and Land
32. Cooperative Management / Co-management
33. One Nation and . . .
34. Treaty Obligations
35. Management Options
36. Wisdom of Elders
37. Story of Tribes in Alaska
38. All Things Considered

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	American Indian Lives
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-3509-6 / 1496235096
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3509-1 / 9781496235091
Zustand	Neuware