My Side of the River
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Aboriginal Rights
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Alaska Native Rights
Assimilation
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Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=WQH
Colonial management Doctrine
Colonization
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Environmental Conservation
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Ethnic Studies
Ethnohistory
Federal Government
Fishing
Government Regulation
Hunting
Indigenous Studies
indigenous Tradition
Language_English
Memoir
Native American History
Native American Studies
Native American Tradition
Native Storytelling
Natural Resources
Oral History
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Resource Conservation
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State Government
Subsistence Living
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Wildlife Management
Yup'ik
Yup’ik
Product details
- ISBN 9781496235091
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2023
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing-forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to colonial management doctrines. We need only look at our current Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have worked.
In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it. Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.S. fishing and hunting culture. He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditional life and resource conservation.
In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it. Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.S. fishing and hunting culture. He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditional life and resource conservation.
Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) formerly worked in forestry, fisheries, and wildlife management in Southeast Alaska, Fairbanks, Bethel, and Pilot Station. He currently works with the Lower Yukon School District.
