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The northern fur seal: a subsistence and commerical resource for Aleuts of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, Alaska
études inuit. Inuit studies • 11 (2) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 51-72
By: Veltre, Douglas William, Veltre, Mary J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Aleutian subsistence and commercial seal hunting from pre-contact times up to the moratorium period. The Russian-American Company moved Aleutians to the Pribloff Islands in 1786 to hunt seals for the lucrative fur trade. Because of the depletion of the seal stock, hunting began to be regulated with the 1957 Interim Convention on the Conservation of North Pacific Seals and later, the Fur Seal Act of 1966. An outright ban on all seal hunting was finally implemented in 1984. The authors examine the place of seal hunting in Aleutian history and subsistence activity prior to 1984 and argue that the Aleuts should be allowed to continue to hunt seals for their subsistence and cultural reasons.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marine hunting
- Diet
- Production and supply
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1786-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pribilof and Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Douglas W. Veltre and Mary J. Veltre
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80640922
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts