Reindeer ownership in Alaska

Domesticated reindeer are not indigenous to North America. Between the years 1892 and 1902, some 1 280 reindeer were imported into western Alaska from Siberia as a supplemental food item for the Bering Strait Eskimo, a novel attempt to introduce a herding technology among hunting societies. Very lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Olson, Dean F.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1969
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Bering Strait
eskimo*
Polar Record
Alaska
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400064913
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400064913
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Summary:Domesticated reindeer are not indigenous to North America. Between the years 1892 and 1902, some 1 280 reindeer were imported into western Alaska from Siberia as a supplemental food item for the Bering Strait Eskimo, a novel attempt to introduce a herding technology among hunting societies. Very little is known about the experiences of Eskimo reindeer herdsmen or about the probable success or failure of this particular approach to the economic and social development of remote Arctic regions.

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