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Volume 23 (1-2) 2025

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 SPECIAL ISSUE: COMMUNITY-BASED ARCHAEOLOGY IN ALASKA

Guest Editors Hollis K. Miller and Sven Haakanson

introduction: community-based archaeology in alaska…………………………….. 3

Hollis K. Miller and Sven Haakanson

ESSAYS

pursuing a good: responsibilities and boundary spanning in arctic archaeology………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10

Kristen D. Barnett

navigating indigenous/indigenous-centered trajectories in community archaeology…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 25

Jayde Morningchild Grimard and Natasha Kruger

it’s xtratuf®: developing a resource network for graduate students

in alaska archaeology……………………………………………………………………………. 35

Miranda LaZar, Amanda Althoff, and Isabel Beach

collaboration in archaeological practice: case studies from

national park service alaska………………………………………………………………….. 49

Shina duVall, Justin Junge, Jonathan Flood, Jason Rogers, Karina Jeffries,

Lee Reininghaus, Allyson Pease, Barbara Cellarius, Amber Cohen, Kathryn Martin, and Starr Knighten

ARTICLES

the ancestral alutiiq foods project: creating community connections

across long distances…………………………………………………………………………….. 68

Catherine F. West

dene trail networks in the matanuska watershed: case study on

community-based participatory research in archaeology…………………….. 80

Kathryn E. Krasinski, Brian T. Wygal, Angela Wade, Norma Johnson, and Larraine Wade

approaches to community based participatory research in a food sovereignty

initiative in southcentral alaska………………………………………………………. 105

Kyle Wark, Roxanna King, Austen Rogers, John Trainor, Mars Kashevarof, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, and Georgia Michlig

REPORTS

recruiting and fostering indigenous archaeologists:

a personal reflection in archaeology………………………………………………… 121

Sarah Simeonoff

ahtna chief andres’ matanuska village site visited by lt. castner in 1898:

chickaloon community archaeology at old man lake, alaska………….. 130

Angela Wade, John Jangala, Caroline Ketron, Marco Sugamiele, Kathryn E. Krasinski, and Brian T. Wygal

community archaeology at the alutiiq museum:

an interview with patrick saltonstall…………………………………………………. 141

Sven Haakanson, Jr.

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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

ARTICLES

turning “traditional” on its head: subsistence access to

katmai national preserve in the age of climate change………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 147

Dillon Patterson, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, and Jonathan Salmon

bone-fueled fires in a treeless environment: production, archaeological signature,

and taphonomic processes………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 167

Barbara A. Crass and Jeffery A. Behm

REPORTS

russian era occupation on agattu island at atu-216………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 183

Miranda LaZar, Heather Lackos, Caroline Funk, and Nicole Misarti

REVIEWS

SHUKÁ KÁA CAVE, SOUTHEAST ALASKA: ARCHAEOLOGY, ECOLOGY, AND COMMUNITY

(james dixon, ed.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 195

Reviewed by Amira F. Ainis

imaken ima’utFROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE: 7500 YEARS OF

KODIAK ALUTIIQ /SUGPIAQ HISTORY (amy f. steffian, ed.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 197

Reviewed by Angela Lunda

TREATY JUSTICE: THE NORTHWEST TRIBES, THE BOLDT DECISION, AND THE RECOGNITION OF FISHING RIGHTS

(charles wilkinson)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 199

Reviewed by Courtney Carothers

STRONGER TOGETHER / kammanatut atausigun / iknaqataghaghluta qerngaamta:

BERING STRAIT COMMUNITIES RESPOND TO THE COVID19 PANDEMIC

(amy phillips-chan with r. b. smith and carol gales, eds.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 202

Reviewed by Taylor P. van Doren

CROOKED ON THE STRETCHER BOARD: ch’ats’ą’ vizhit tech’irikii: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON GWICHIN

HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND FOLK CULTURE (craig mishler with kenneth drizhuu frank)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 204

Reviewed by Samuel Alexander

IÑUPIAT OF THE SII: HISTORICAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND ARCTIC CHALLENGES

(wanni w. anderson and douglas d. anderson)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 206

Reviewed by Shelby Anderson

LOWER TANANA DENE DICTIONARY (james kari, ed.)………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 208

Reviewed by Conor M. M. Snoek