"Our home is drowning": Inupiat storytelling and climate change in Point Hope, Alaska

Geographical Review

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 456-475

  Sakakibara, Chie ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Climate change; Coastal erosion; I upiat; Point hope; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL EROSION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; POINT HOPE; UNITED STATES;

BALAENIDAE;

EID: 54049112266     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00312.x     Document Type: Article

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