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This dissertation explores Iliamna Lake ethnogeography, the physical and mental understanding of the landscape, by researching Yup’ik place names and stories about these places from Iliamna Lake Yup’ik perspectives (Yupiit iingitgun). Many Yup’ik place names were forgotten after…

American Indigenous populations, American Indians (AIs), and Alaska Natives (ANs) have experienced historically traumatic events over the past 500 years, and Native Hawaiians (NHs) over the last 240 years from contact with Europeans, and the subsequent colonization, and appropri…

Background: The smoking rate among young Alaska Native adults (ages 19-29) in Southeast Alaska is 70% as compared to the statewide adult smoking rate of 21%, the Alaska Native adult rate of 41%, and the overall young adult rate of 32%. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium…