Contents

Foreword

Hugh Brody

Note on Orthography and Terminology

Introduction

Part One

Indigenous History and Identity

PERSPECTIVE: Our Land

Vinnie Baron and Felix St-Aubin

1 What “Really Happened”: A Migration Narrative from Southeast Alaska Compared to Archaeological and Geological Data

Aron L. Crowell

2 Inuvialuit Ethnonyms and Toponyms as a Reflection of Identity, Language, and Memory

Murielle Nagy

3 Wandering in Place: A Close Examination of Two Names at Nunivak Island

Robert Drozda

4 Berry Harvesting in the Eastern Arctic: An Enduring Expression of Inuit Women’s Identity

Martha Dowsley, Scott A. Heyes, Anna Bunce, and Williams Stolz

Part Two

Forces of Change

PERSPECTIVE: But Who Am I?

Apay’u Moore

5 Places of Memory, Anticipation, and Agitation in Northwest Greenland

Mark Nuttall

6 “The Country Keeps Changing”: Cultural and Historical Contexts of Ecosystem Changes in the Yukon Delta

Kenneth L. Pratt

7 Inventing the Copper River: Maps and the Colonization of Ahtna Lands

William E. Simeone

8 Inuit Identity and the Land: Toward Distinctive Built Form in the Nunavik Homeland

Scott A. Heyes and Peter Jacobs

Part Three

Knowing the Land

PERSPECTIVE: Diitsii Diitsuu Nąįį Gooveenjit—For Our Ancestors

Evon Peter

9 Place-Naming Strategies in Inuit-Yupik and Dene Languages in Alaska

Gary Holton

10 Watershed Ethnoecology in Yup’ik Place Names of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Louann Rank

11 Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names from the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut

Peter C. Dawson, Colleen Hughes, Donald Butler, and Kenneth Buck

12 Indigenous Place Names in the Senyavin Strait Area, Chukotka

Michael A. Chlenov, with an introduction by Igor Krupnik

Appendix: Northern Animal Illustrations

List of Contributors

Index