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Author Fienup-Riordan, Ann

Title Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/the Entire Surface of the Land Is Medicine : Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
Published University of Alaska Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Series Snowy Owl Ser
Snowy Owl Ser
Contents Kalikam ayagnera = Introduction -- Naucetaat nertukngait = Edible plants -- Naucetaat iinruktukngait = Medicinal plants -- Tuqunarqellriit naucetaat = Poisonous plants -- Atsat = Berries -- Uugnaraat neqautait = Mouse foods -- Qanemcit qulirat-llu = Stories and traditional tales -- Makirayaraq = Gathering from the land -- Tuqunarqellriit naucetaat = Poisonous plants -- Naucetaat iinruktukngait = Medicinal plants -- Uugnaraat neqautait = Mouse foods -- Iqvaryaraq = Berry picking
Summary "In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Traditional ecological knowledge -- Alaska, Southwest
Medicinal plants -- Alaska, Southwest
Wild plants, Edible -- Alaska, Southwest
Ethnobotany -- Alaska, Southwest
Yupik Eskimos -- Ethnobotany
Wild plants, Edible
Traditional ecological knowledge
Medicinal plants
Ethnobotany
Southwest Alaska
Form Electronic book
Author Rearden, Alice
Meade, Marie
Jernigan, Kevin
Cleveland, Jacqueline
Birzer, Sharon
Tyler, Richard W
ISBN 9781602234239
160223423X