'Like Ice Floes': Iñupiaq Sovereignty and Settler Migration on Alaska's North Slope

• Main Author: Walsh, Elizabeth
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2023
• Subjects: Alaska; environment; labour relations; Native studies; settler colonialism; Yankee; north slope; Prudhoe Bay
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/348370; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.95794

My dissertation examines relations between Iñupiat in the village of Utqiaġvik on Alaska’s North Slope and a number of non-Iñupiat transient workers who, enticed by generous salaries, have temporarily relocated there. A focus of my study is the North Slope Borough, founded by Iñupiat to preserve the...