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Yaqulget qaillun pilartat (what the birds do): yup'ik Eskimo understanding of geese and those who study them.

From: Arctic  |  Date: 3/1/1999  |  Author: Fienup-Riordan, Ann

ANN FIENUP-RIORDAN (1)

(Received 28 August 1997; accepted in revised form 19 June 1998)

ABSTRACT. 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 implemented and controlled by the local nonprofit regional corporation, which employed ...

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