In 1971 the U.
S.
In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditiona.
He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. fishing and hunting culture.
Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.
S.
In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup\'ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it.
We need only look at our current Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have worked.
Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to colonial management doctrines.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.
S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing--forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life.
In 1971 the U.
S.
In this memoir of personal and public history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on traditional life and resource conservation.
He also covers landownership, incorporation of Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty rates among Native Alaskans. fishing and hunting culture.
Kelly alternates between personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.
S.
In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias Kelly (Yup\'ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively criminalizing those who practice it.
We need only look at our current Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have worked.
Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to colonial management doctrines.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.
S. government created the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to hunting and fishing--forever changing the way Alaska Natives could be responsible for their way of life.
In 1971 the U.
S
