Anthropology

This website gives a brief introduction to Year Two of the King Island Native Community project entitled "Documenting the Cultural Geography, Biogeography, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of King Island, Alaska". It is a four-year project funded by the Arctic Social Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation, particularly focusing on documenting placenames on King Island and stories about the island. Year One was a planning year; Year Two was the beginning of fieldwork; Year Three fieldwork will occur in June 2006; and Year Four will be used to finalize products for the community. Co-Principal Investigator Deanna (Dede) Kingston would like to thank to especially thank Anna Kerttula of the National Science Foundation for supporting this project. Many other thanks go to: Matt Ganley, Jesse Ford, Simon Stephenson, Bob Shaw, King Island Native Community, King Island Native Corporation, King Island elders Marie Saclamana, Gabriel and Frances Muktoyuk, Edward and Cecilia Muktoyuk, Teddy and Agnes Mayac, Helen Pushruk, Francis Alvanna, Earl Mayac, Lucy Koyuk, Agatha Kukuluk, Agatha Ford, Becky Amarok, Bertha Herzner, Olga Kingston, Mary Dillard, Gertrude Analoak, Alex Muktoyuk and many others, Nolee Sebwenna, Charlene Saclamana, Leona Mayac, Lillian Tiulana, Susie Toliver, Johanna Kane, Pat Sagoonick, Caroline Brown, Toni Smith, Jeffrey Saclamana, Ricky Seeganna, Sean Seeganna, Chad Pushruk, Vince Pikonganna, David Alvanna, Martha Binford Wells, Marin Kuizenga, Jay Burnside, Tom Quinn, John Algood, Chico, Ander, Adem Bachman, Evergreen Helicopters, Kevin Knowlton, Cathleen Osborne-Gowey, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, Jon Butzke, Kai Henifin, Scott Kingston, Kim Nelson, Claire Alix, and Owen Mason. I probably forgot someone... let me know and we'll change it!

—Deanna Kingston, August 2005