The ethnogenesis of the Kuuvaum Kaniagmiut

Authors
Burch, ES Jones, E Loon, HP Kaplan, LD
Citation
Es. Burch et al., The ethnogenesis of the Kuuvaum Kaniagmiut, ETHNOHISTOR, 46(2), 1999, pp. 291-327
Citations number
82
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology & Antropology",History
Journal title
ETHNOHISTORY
ISSN journal
00141801 → ACNP
Volume
46
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
291 - 327
Database
ISI
SICI code
0014-1801(199921)46:2<291:TEOTKK>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
The Native inhabitants of the upper Kobuk River, Alaska, are identified in the ethnographic record as Inupiaq Eskimos. This article presents evidence showing that they were actually Koyukon-speaking Athapaskans in the early n ineteenth century. Between about I86o and I88o they were rapidly and peacef ully assimilated, and they are Inupiaq Eskimos today.