Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
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Traditional foods guide

from NAEP Native Access to Engineering Programme First aboriginal food guide balances traditional, practical
and from CBC [read the entire story here]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/04/12/food-guide.html

“Bannock, berries, wild game and canned milk are part of a new version of Canada’s Food Guide, created specifically for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
“With this guide, First Nations, Inuit and Métis will have [...]

Public involvement how-to readings

I don’t use the term “stakeholders” because of my experience with the US Department of Energy. Too often when an institution or agency speaks about “stakeholders” they mean they hold the stake while the community gets stucked.
I am after community or public collaboration through public involvement (or community-involvement. [The latest term is CPBR Community-based Participatory [...]

Menu to Midden: Human food system

© 1985, mpb
This model is a means for visualizing the place garbage has in our lives. We can also use this model to understand how changes in diet, the environment, and the social system feed [sic] into one another: past, present, and future.
The left side of the diagram refers to extrasomatic (outside the [...]

Biocultural Dimensions of Environment and Health

Bumsted, M. Pamela, Karen S. Young, and Leon H. Tafoya 1994 Biocultural Dimensions of Health and Environment. In John S. Andrews, Howard Frumkin, Barry L. Johnson, Myron A. Mehlman, Charles Xintaras, and Jeanne A. Bucsela, eds. Hazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste. pp. 245-252. Princeton: Princeton Scientific [...]

Rural Charm

“Rural Charm”
Rural communities face classes of environmental challenges which can be outlined as I have done for the northern Pueblos. Various efforts by various means are or have been directed towards alleviating or “solving” these conditions.
But fundamental to these challenges is the intangible one of Who are we? Rural communities in New Mexico [...]

VT-CH-94 Vermont’s Earliest Known Agricultural Experiment Station

man in the northeast 19:1980 pp. 73-82
M. Pamela Bumsted
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Abstract
The first documented prehistoric corn remains from Vermont, in association with abundant gathered foods, were recovered in 1978 from an early Late Woodland (ca., A.D. 1450) site on the Winooski River intervale in the Champlain Lowland. The presence of both cultivated and gathered foods suggests [...]