RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Atna’ and the Political Ecology of the Copper River Fishery, Alaska
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 58
OP 70
DO 10.1353/arc.2011.0003
VO 41
IS 1
A1 Holen, Davin L.
YR 2004
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/41/1/58.abstract
AB Political ecology is a holistic mode of inquiry that applies political analysis to issues of resource use, specifically access by actors and organizations interacting in defined social and cultural contexts. This paper uses a political ecology perspective to reveal how the Atna’, an Athabaskan people of south-central Alaska who have no treaty rights to resources, use their knowledge of their environment to articulate a specific claim to Copper River salmon. Three case studies of Atna’ public activism are presented demonstrating Atna’ participation in the governmental regulatory process.↵Davin L. Holen, Division of Subsistence, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 333 Raspberry Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99518