Endnotes: Message from the Elders

1 Alaska Native Traditional Knowledge and Ways of Knowing Workshop. 1994. Sponsored by Rural Alaska Community Action Program and Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Marine Mammals.

2 “Diomede Island Names, Places and Stories.” Apr. 2, 1980. Kawerak Eskimo Heritage Program, EC.80.004 Tape 34.

3 John Active. 1999. “Why Subsistence is a Matter of Cultural Survival: A Yupik Point of View.” In Ronald Spatz, ed. 1999. Alaska Native Writers, Storytellers and Orators, Expanded Edition. Alaska Quarterly Review.

4 Chevak Traditional Council. 2008. Atlas Qissunaq. Prepared by the Chevak Mapping Project of the Chevak Traditional Council. p. 116.

5 Ann Fienup-Riordan, ed. 2005. Yupiit Qanruyutait/Yup’ik Words of Wisdom. Transcriptions and translation by Alice Rearden with Marie Meade. University of Nebraska Press. p. 93.

6 John Pingayak—Chevak. Sep. 2, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

7 Gordon Westlock—Emmonak. Mar. 18, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

8 Stuart Olrun—Mekoryuk. Sep. 23, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

9 John Pingayak—Chevak. Sep. 2, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

10 Stuart Olrun—Mekoryuk. Sep. 23, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

11 Joseph David—Mekoryuk. Sep. 23, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

12 Ann Fienup-Riordan. 2007. Yuungnaqpiallerput—The Way
 We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival. University of Washington Press in association with Anchorage Museum Association and Calista Elders Council. p. 20.

13 John Pingayak—Chevak. Sep. 2, 2009. Interview for Bering Sea Elders Group.

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