Yaqulget Qaillun Pilartat (What the Birds Do): Yup'ik Eskimo Understanding of Geese and Those Who Study Them

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Fienup-Riordan, Ann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1999
• Subjects: brant; coastal habitat; cooperative management; ecology; flooding; geese; storm surge; traditional knowledge; wetlands; Yup’ik ideology; bernache noire; habitat côtier; gestion coopérative; écologie; inondation; oie; onde de tempête; savoir traditionnel; marais; idéologie yupik; Brant; Noire; Arctic; eskimo*; Yup'ik; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63961

Traditional knowledge of the effects of storm surges and changing coastal ecology on the breeding habits of geese (specifically black brant) in the coastal wetlands of southwestern Alaska was documented in a project initiated by non-Native biologists and an anthropologist. The project was both imple...