DDRIG: Illiamna Yup'ik Geographic Knowledge and Sense of Place in Southwest Alaska

DDRIG：伊利亚姆纳·尤皮克（Illiamna Yupik）阿拉斯加西南部的地理知识和地方感

• 批准号: 1640812
• 负责人: Gary Holton
• 金额: $ 3.36万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-15 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1640812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; Illiamna; Yup; ik; Geographic

This project will document traditional knowledge of Yup'ik place names in the Iliamna region of Southwest Alaska. Recent attention to indigenous place names in Alaska has profound implications for our understanding of the relationships between humans and their environment. Just as the Athabaskan place name Denali reflects an Alaska Native perspective on the land, the thousands of Iliamna Yup'ik place names provide insight into land use, migration, and conservation in a critical geographic area. The Iliamna region lies at a crossroads between the core Yup'ik speaking area in the Kuskokwim River drainage and the more peripheral Bristol Bay and Alaska Peninsula regions. It is here that Yup'ik speakers are in contact with speakers of the very different Dena'ina Athabaskan language. The Iliamna region is also rich in natural resources, including fisheries and minerals. Documentation of traditional knowledge of the environment will thus not only help to understand the history of Yup'ik peoples in this region, it will also inform future resource policy in Alaska. This project is extremely urgent, as the Iliamna dialect of Yup'ik is critically endangered. The oral narratives and place name maps recorded by this project will serve as an enduring record for future generations of local residents of the Iliamna Lake area and other scholars. The co-PI has a well-developed working relationship with the Iliamna Lake communities, and the collaborative approach ensures the success of the planned research. The goal of this research is to explore Yup'ik peoples' ways of using landscape and interactions with the land by analyzing Iliamna Yup'ik place names within oral narratives as they relate to sense of place. Place names reflect human interaction with the landscape, both mythically through creation stories and prosaically through individual and collective experiences of and observations on the land. People share place names and useful information about the environment with others when traveling, harvesting resources, and trading goods with neighboring groups. Using a community-based participatory research method, this project will develop a typology categorizing Yup'ik place names and oral narratives in cultural and physical meanings. Methodology will include participant observation, key respondent interviews, and mapping exercises in the Iliamna communities Newhalen, Iliamna, Kokhanok, and Igiugig. Fieldwork will be conducted during all seasons in order to better capture the seasonal nature of Yup'ik land use. During the fieldwork local Tribal/Village Council members and Yup'ik speaking Elders will participate in the research and formulate additional research questions from a local perspective. The results of the research will serve as the basis for the co-PI's University of Alaska Fairbanks Ph.D. dissertation. More broadly, this project will serve as a model both for documentation of Iliamna Yup'ik place names and oral narratives, and documentation of Iliamna Yup'ik geographic knowledge and environmental changes. The documentation of local geographic knowledge will be useful to linguists, anthropologists, Yup'ik educators, geographers, other scholars in a variety of disciplines and state and federal land use managers.

该项目将记录阿拉斯加西南部伊利亚姆纳地区尤皮克地名的传统知识。最近对阿拉斯加土著地名的关注对于我们理解人类与其环境之间的关系具有深远的影响。正如阿萨巴斯卡地名迪纳利反映了阿拉斯加原住民对这片土地的看法一样，数千个伊利亚姆纳尤皮克地名提供了对关键地理区域的土地利用、移民和保护的深入了解。伊利亚姆纳地区位于库斯科奎姆河流域核心尤皮克语地区与更外围的布里斯托尔湾和阿拉斯加半岛地区之间的十字路口。正是在这里，尤皮克语使用者与使用截然不同的德纳伊纳阿萨巴斯卡语的使用者进行了接触。伊利亚姆纳地区还拥有丰富的自然资源，包括渔业和矿产。因此，传统环境知识的记录不仅有助于了解该地区尤皮克人的历史，还将为阿拉斯加未来的资源政策提供信息。 由于尤皮克语的伊利亚姆纳方言濒临灭绝，因此该项目极为紧迫。该项目记录的口头叙述和地名地图将为伊利亚姆纳湖地区当地居民和其他学者的后代留下永久的记录。联合首席研究员与伊利亚姆纳湖社区有着良好的工作关系，合作方式确保了计划研究的成功。本研究的目的是通过分析口头叙述中与地方感相关的伊利亚姆纳尤皮克地名，探索尤皮克人利用景观和与土地互动的方式。地名反映了人类与景观的互动，既通过神话般的创世故事，又通过个人和集体对这片土地的体验和观察而平淡无奇。人们在旅行、收获资源以及与邻近群体交易货物时与他人分享地名和有关环境的有用信息。该项目将采用基于社区的参与性研究方法，开发一种类型学，对尤皮克地名和口头叙述的文化和物理意义进行分类。方法将包括参与观察、关键受访者访谈以及在 Iliamna 社区 Newhalen、Iliamna、Kokhanok 和 Igiugig 进行绘图练习。实地考察将在所有季节进行，以便更好地了解尤皮克土地利用的季节性特征。在实地考察期间，当地部落/村庄委员会成员和讲尤皮克语的长者将参与研究并从当地角度提出其他研究问题。研究结果将作为联合PI的阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校博士学位的基础。论文。更广泛地说，该项目将作为记录伊利亚姆纳尤皮克地名和口头叙述以及记录伊利亚姆纳尤皮克地理知识和环境变化的模型。当地地理知识的记录将对语言学家、人类学家、尤皮克教育家、地理学家、其他不同学科的学者以及州和联邦土地使用管理者有用。

项目成果

Documenting Nanvarpak Yugcetun Place Names Using a Community-based Participatory Approach

使用基于社区的参与方法记录 Nanvarpak Yugcetun 地名

• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
• 作者: Kugo, Yoko

Memories, Languages, Place Names, and Landscapes in Iliamna Lake, Alaska

阿拉斯加伊利亚姆纳湖的记忆、语言、地名和风景

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Kohkluk Map 150 Years Conference
• 作者: Kugo, Yoko