Ciulirnerunak yuuyaqunak = Do not live without an elder : the subsistence way of life in Southwest Alaska
Ann Fienup-Riordan (Editor)
"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
Print Book, English, 2016
University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK, 2016
History
xii, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
9781602232976, 1602232970
944087119
Online version:
Do not live without an elder
Yup'ik transcription and translation
The subsistence way of life
Dangers during fall and winter
One that is memorable
Places where warriors once lived
The world's inhabitants
One must not live without an elder
Text in English and Yupik