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Application of a Theory of Games to the Transitional Eskimo Culture
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The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission: effective local management of a subsistence resource
… (IWC) deleted the exemption that allowed Alaska Eskimos to harvest the bowhead whale. This sparked considerable controversy. The IWC had not previously exerted authority over aboriginal whaling. The Eskimos responded by forming the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC). Protests by the whalers …
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Managing extinction: the United States' decision to end the Eskimo hunt of the endangered bowhead whale
… and the social and cultural needs of Alaskan Eskimos who have hunted the bowhead for over four thousand years. At the time, the decision exemplified the role of the federal government as an arbitrator of survival, a situation that is becoming increasingly commonplace as the continued …
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Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The "Pacific Paradox" Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons
… two climatically different populations, Alaskan Eskimo and Pacific Island groups. The “Pacific Paradox” has been widely discussed, but research using direct comparisons between this Pacific population and cold climate groups has received little attention. The methods employed are those preformed …
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Alaskan Eskimo and Polynesian Island Population Skeletal Anatomy: The "Pacific Paradox" Revisited Through Surface Area to Body Mass Comparisons
… two climatically different populations, Alaskan Eskimo and Pacific Island groups. The “Pacific Paradox” has been widely discussed, but research using direct comparisons between this Pacific population and cold climate groups has received little attention. The methods employed are those preformed …
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
In a splendid geographic setting, the Eskimo of western and northwestern Alaska have for centuries risked the ice and elements in pursuit of one of the largest and most magnificent animals on earth, the Bowhead whale. The life cycle of the Bowhead whale wholly depends on the pack ice, near the edge …
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Hearing Loss Among Alaska Native Schoolchildren of the Lower Yukon
<p>Schoolchildren in the Eskimo settlement of Mountain Village, Alaska, were studied to determine the extent of hearing losses incurred and ,the relationship between hearing loss and the middle ear pathology of otitis media.</p>
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The role of ecological barriers in the development of cultural boundaries during the later Holocene of the central Alaska peninsula
… factor in the separate development of modern Eskimo and Aleut populations and their distinctive cultural traditions. Distal volcanic effects include ash fall, sulfuric acid rain, and sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere. The ash fall and sulfuric acid rain from the Aniakchak eruption …
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Management and regulation of local subsistence hunting in north Alaska
… six cooperative management regimes: the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, the Eskimo Walrus Commission, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Goose Management Plan, the Alaska and lnuvialuit Beluga Whale Committee, the lnuvialuit Game CouncilNorth Slope Borough management agreement for polar bears in the …
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A Yupiaq world view : implications for cultural, educational, and technological adaptation in a contemporary world
… view and a Yupiaq world view in a remote Yupiaq Eskimo village on the Kuskokwim River in southwestern Alaska. The study examines how the contemporary Yupiaq people have adapted their belief system, educational practices and subsistence lifestyle to accommodate a mix of Western and indigenous …
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Photographic memory : Inuit representation in the work of Peter Pitseolak
… of Western influence, yet he transcended Eskimo stereotypes and strove to retain the important events of his own life and of those around him.
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OUT IN THE COLD: THE LEGACY OF CANADA'S INUIT RELOCATION EXPERIMENT IN THE HIGH ARCTIC, 1953-1990.
… out an experimental relocation of eleven Inuit (Eskimo) families from the region of Port Harrison (Inukjuak), on Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, to Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands in the High Arctic Archipelago. The reason the government gave for this operation was to alleviate overcrowded conditions …
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Potencial de mercado de leche pasteurizada en ocho municipios del Pacífico Sur de Nicaragua para la Cooperativa de Producción Agroindustrial Nicarao en el período mayo-septiembre del 2009
… de leche pasteurizada es Parmalat, seguido por Eskimo, de igual forma hay presencia de las siguientes marcas: La Perfecta, Centrolac, Exquisita, Camoapan; así mismo la presentación más vendida es la ½ litro. El 53.5% de los centros de distribución está dispuesto a vender leche pasteurizada de la …
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Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Contemporary Inuit Drawing
… of Kinngait and the role of the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in the dissemination of arts and crafts. Chapter three is a review of the literature in the field in of writing on Inuit art and exposes the dearth of material in this area of study. Chapters four and five are each Case Studies on …
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Cadena de valor leche refrigerada en Centros de Acopio de la Bruja, el Saiz, Pancasan y Maizama de Cooperativa Nica Centro Muy Muy y Matiguas, Matagalpa, Febrero - Julio 2010
… estudio, resultando Parmalat, Centrolac, Nilac y Eskimo, a cada eslabón se le realizo un análisis, posteriormente se diseño la cadena por eslabón para luego realizar la articulación de cada uno, cada eslabón presenta dificultades que inciden en la calidad de la leche. En la industria lechera la …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
This paper examines the history of the Yup'ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between …
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The Dwellers Between: Yup'ik Shamans and Cultural Change in Western Alaska
This paper examines the history of the Yup'ik Eskimos of western Alaska and explores how their shamans shaped the response to introduced epidemic disease. As in the experiences of so many other Native American groups, disease epidemics played an important role in the history of relations between …
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Utopia on trial : perceptions of Canadian government experiments with Inuit relocation
… experimental programme of resettling Inuit (Eskimos) in unoecupied regions of the Aretie, sometimes far to the north of their original homelands. In this dissertation I analyze the Canadian government's Inuit reloeation policies during the years 1950-59, by exmaining two princpal case …