Interview data January - May 2021: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Access in Indigenous Communities in the Arctic and U.S. Southwest

• Main Authors: Noor Johnson, Mary Beth Jager, Daniel Ferguson, Stephanie Carroll
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: food sovereignty; Indigenous; Alaska; Southwest; pandemic; COVID-19; Arctic; Lawrence Island; Athabascan; eyak; Inupiaq; St Lawrence Island; St. Lawrence Island Yupik; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*; Yup'ik; Yupik
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2CN6Z16B

This dataset includes transcriptions of interviews with Indigenous Individuals from Alaska and the US Southwest conducted over Zoom between March and July 2021. The interviews focused on individual’s access to harvested traditional foods as well as store bought food during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as institutional responses to support food access during this period. 31 semi-structured interviews were recorded (with permission), transcribed, and anonymized. Audio recordings were deleted to maintain participant confidentiality. The transcribed interviews are being stored on a secure server at the University of Arizona and due to potential sensitivity of the data, are not publicly available.