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Ahtna Travel Narratives: A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge Among Alaska Athabascans

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Ahtna Travel Narratives: A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge Among Alaska Athabascans - McKinley, Jim, and Stickwan, Frank, and Tansy, Jake
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Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise landscape classifications, including Ahtna place names and river directionals, these indigenous travel narratives represent walking tours comprising more than one thousand miles of traditional routes and trails in the Ahtna-language area. Providing context for these narratives are ...

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Ahtna Travel Narratives: A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge Among Alaska Athabascans 2011, University of Alaska Press

ISBN-13: 9781555001056

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