“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...
Published in: | AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples |
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Language: | English |
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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 |