JBER - Ethnohistory

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  • Ethnohistoric Land Use Patterns: Elmendorf Air Force Base (Knik Arm) Area, Draft Report (1994)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy Yaw Davis. The Dena'ina Team.

    This draft report provides a background paper contributing toward the long range planning for the management of cultural resources on Elmendorf Air Force Base. One goal is to address general prehistoric and historic land use patterns in this specific area; another is to provide a guide suggesting what to look for during a subsequent more comprehensive survey. This report reviews the context of the study, methods employed and innovated, literature reviewed, and introduces an Indian team organized...

  • An Overview of Dena’ina Athabascan Uses of Sites on and Near Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska (2003)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy Yaw Davis. James A. Fall. The Dena'ina Team.

    The area presently occupied by the Elmendorf Air Force Base (Elmendorf AFB) in southcentral Alaska lies within the traditional territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina (Tanaina) Athabascan Indians. In 1994, members of the Dena'ina Athabascan community of Eklutna formed the "Dena'ina Team," and, working with cultural anthropologist Nancy Yaw Davis and Elmendorf AFB personnel, began to investigate potential Dena'ina prehistoric and historic sites on the base (Davis and the Dena'ina Team 1994,...