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- Title
Factors in the Adaptation of Reindeer Herders to Caribou on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
- Authors
Schneider, William; Kielland, Knut; Finstad, Gregory
- Abstract
Over the last century, reindeer herding has provided a major economic base in Eskimo villages on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and has come to represent an important dimension of Native cultural identity. As a result of the current population explosion of caribou from the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, along with a shift in the herd's migratory patterns, reindeer ranges that were free of caribou for generations are now being flooded by tens of thousands. Reindeer join these migrating caribou and leave their ranges. As individual herders lose reindeer to the caribou, the impact is felt at the individual, community, and regional level. This paper describes some of the factors that influence modern-day Eskimo herders' ability to cope with this devastating situation. The herders' descriptions of the crisis lead us to a larger and more comprehensive picture of how they understand and respond to the environmental conditions, technology, and economic conditions that they face.
- Subjects
SEWARD Peninsula (Alaska); ALASKA; REINDEER herders; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); NOMADS; CARIBOU; CITIES &; towns; MIGRANT labor; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Arctic Anthropology, 2005, Vol 42, Issue 2, p36
- ISSN
0066-6939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/arc.2011.0020