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    My Side of the River
    An Alaska Native Story

    Elias Kelly (Author)

    9781496235091

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2023

    346 pages, 1 map
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    "This provocative and timely book deserves an attentive audience."-Bruce J. Dinges, Roundup Magazine
    “My Side of the River establishes Elias Kelly as a passionate, outspoken advocate for Alaska Native resource management rights. Combining cultural knowledge and traditions with a university degree, he provides a unique perspective on a complex set of issues facing Alaskans: Who decides where, when, and how fish, wildlife, and other natural resources are managed, and by whom? Such questions are vital to all of us as we meet an onrushing future.”-Nick Jans, author of The Last Light Breaking
    “In My Side of the River Elias Kelly presents a unique Alaska Native voice as he recounts his personal experiences-growing up along the Yukon, fishing with his brothers, and hunting with friends up sloughs and downriver. He is telling his own story and, at the same time, sharing opinions that will ring true for many Alaska Natives.”-Ann Fienup-Riordan, author of Wise Words of the Yup’ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You

    In 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing-forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to colonial management doctrines. We need only look at our current Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have worked.

    In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup’ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it. Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.S. fishing and hunting culture. He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditional life and resource conservation.
     

    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Part I
    1. Hunting, Fishing, and Resource Management in Native Alaska
    2. Wildlife Management
    3. Yukon River Fisheries
    4. Subsistence
    5. Federal and State
    6. Roots and Moratoriums
    7. Alliance Seekers
    8. Whitefish Fishing
    9. Yup’
    ik Economics
    Part II
    10. Social Morals and Obligations
    11. Calendar Cycles
    12. Environmental Realms
    13. Spiritual Realms
    14. Is It Too Big?
    15. More Native Teachers
    16. Educational Endeavors-Poaching for Dummies
    17. Sustainable Management
    18. Misnomers of Management
    19. Status Quo
    Part III
    20. Paimiut River
    21. Fish and Game Hats
    22. Shortsighted
    23. Genetic Tributaries
    24. John Paul Edwards (1971–
    2001)
    25. River Ecology
    26. Civil Obedience
    27. Sense of Time
    28. Lessons of Humility
    29. A Whale, a Whale
    Part IV
    30. Bad to the Bone
    31. Alaska Sovereignty and Land
    32. Cooperative Management / Co-management
    33. One Nation and . . .
    34. Treaty Obligations
    35. Management Options
    36. Wisdom of Elders
    37. Story of Tribes in Alaska
    38. All Things Considered
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