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Volume 22 (1-2) 2024

Date Posted: April 15, 2025       Categories:

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SPECIAL ISSUE: ALASKA AND THE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOL SYSTEM 

ARTICLES  

introduction to “alaska and the american boarding school system”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Kenneth L. Pratt

alaskan “comity plan” and its continued effects on indigenous peoples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Benjamin A. Jacuk

the last frontier for whom?: sheldon jackson and the intersection between  boarding schools and tourism in alaska. . . 34 Emily Edenshaw and Benjamin A. Jacuk

opaque history and other challenges in the identification of alaska  boarding schools and associated cemeteries.  . . 45 Kenneth L. Pratt

REPORTS  

glass creek obsidian source in the talkeetna mountains:

a community-based approach to archaeology. . . 83 Kathryn E. Krasinski, Angela Wade, Wilson Justin, Jeffrey T. Rasic, and Brian T. Wygal

BOOK REVIEWS  

memory and landscape: indigenous responses to a changing north (pratt & heyes, eds.). . . . . 99 Reviewed by Matthew Walls

visceral: verity, legacy, identity: alaska native gut knowledge and perseverance (kelliher-combs and carrlee). . . 101 Reviewed by Erica Hill

SPECIAL ISSUE: FOOD SECURITY AND LIFEWAYS  

AMONG ALASKA NATIVE PEOPLES 

introduction to food security and lifeways among alaska native peoples. . . . . . . . . . . 105 Yoko Kugo and Michael Koskey

ARTICLES 

“subsistence” and the myth of settler belonging: alaska native

traditional foods as a site of competing sovereignties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Forest S. Haven

community-based resesarch on underground food storage in alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Michael Koskey and Yoko Kugo

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REPORT 

qaluyaarmiut arnat neqet caliaqelarait/nelson island women’s roles  in food security and stewardship. . . 139 Theresa Arevgaq John

ESSAYS 

tikiġaq way of life and traditional food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Alzred Steve Oomittuk

whaling in tikiġaq (point hope). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Shingo Takazawa

ARTICLE 

something fishy: fish remains at the klein site (xbd-362), quartz lake, alaska. . . . . . . . 163 McKenna Litynski, Briana N. Doering, Holly J. McKinney, Joshua D. Reuther, and Carol Gelvin-Reymiller

REPORT 

a 5000-year-old archaeological site at sanagˆan,

akun island, eastern aleutian islands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Jason Rogers, Aubrey Morrison, Linda Finn Yarborough, and Michael Yarborough

BOOK REVIEWS 

tengautuli atkuk / the flying parka: the meaning and making of 

parkas in southwest alaska (fienup-riordan, rearden, & meade). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Reviewed by Jill Oakes

culture and archaeology of the ancestral unangaxˆ/aleut of the aleutian islands, alaska/ unangam tanangin ilan unangaxˆ/aliguutaxˆ maqaxˆsingin ama 

kadaangim tanangin anagˆixˆtaqangi (corbett & hanson). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Reviewed by Jason Rogers