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The Yukon River Ingalik: subsistence, the fur trade, and a changing resource base
Ethnohistory • 23 (3) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 198-212
By: VanStone, James W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This historical study describes how habitat changes and fluctuating wildlife populations during the century after the arrival of Europeans in the 1830s affected Ingalik subsistence. While primarily dependent on salmon fishing, the Ingalik also greatly relied upon hunting large and small game animals. Excessive trapping combined with ecological variations and changing economic circumstances are shown to have been responsible for the decline in the fur trade apparent during the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Mining and quarrying
- Fauna
- Flora
- Annual cycle
- Fishing
- Hunting and trapping
- Animal by-products
- External trade
- Environmental quality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ingalik
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972, 1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1833-1934
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by James W. VanStone
- Uniform title: Notes on the Indians of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, Alaska
- Includes bibliographical references (p.210-212)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ingalik Indians