“Knowledge is like food”: qanruyutet on change and subsistence from John Smith

Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers): Remembering landscapes and refining methodologies through community‐based remote sensing in the Yukon‐Kuskokwim Delta, Southwest Alaska

“…For example, Yugtun contains highly descriptive place names that often disclose the species and activities associated with a given site (Fienup-Riordan, 1994;. Hence, the collection of specific genres of Yup'ik oral history relating to place names and Yuuyaraq-including alerquutet (i.e., instructions), inerquutet (prohibitions) and neq'ayarat (cautionary tales)-found the methodological core of our interview protocols (Smith & Gleason, 2021). Such insights are important because they allow researchers to further classify spectral signatures according to species present (e.g., areas with frequent bear feeding activity), site usage (e.g., a seasonal fish camp) and peculiarities about a site (e.g., that the grass that grows near the salt water is tallest and best for basket of the rest of the globe (Jansen et al, 2020).…”