“Almost Every Place, Every Rock, Had A Name”: A Consideration of Place-Name Density on King Island, Alaska

King Island, Alaska, has a relatively high place-name density of 45 place names per square mile. King Island Inupiat elders and community members, with the help of Western scientists (including a linguist, an anthropologist, an archaeologist and biologists), documented 163 place names over the 3.5 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
Main Author: Kingston, Deanna Paniataaq
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2009
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/117718010900500102
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/117718010900500102