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Reindeer ownership in Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Dean F. Olson
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Domesticated reindeer are not indigenous to North America. Between the years 1892 and 1902, some 1 280 reindeer were imported into western Alaska from Siberia as a supplemental food item for the Bering Strait Eskimo, a novel attempt to introduce a herding technology among hunting societies. Very little is known about the experiences of Eskimo reindeer herdsmen or about the probable success or failure of this particular approach to the economic and social development of remote Arctic regions.

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Polar Record , Volume 14 , Issue 92 , May 1969 , pp. 629 - 635
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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