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Additional Curriculum Resources Reference Resources Alaska Department of Fish and Game Ecosystems (www.wc.adfg.state.ak.us/index.cfm?adfg=ecosystems.borealwhere) (Alaska Department of Fish and Game), pages 1-5. Alaska Native Knowledge Network, www.ankn.uaf.edu Alaska Science Forum (Plants) www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/plants.html Andre, Alestine and Fehr, Alan, Gwich’in Ethnobotany, Plants used by the Gwich’in for

Food, Medicine, Shelter and Tools, (Gwich’in Social and Cultural Institute and Aurora Research Institute, Inuvik, Northwest Territories) 2000

Collet, Dominique M., Willows of Interior Alaska, (U.S Fish and Wildlife Service –

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge) 2004 Garibaldi, Ann, Medicinal Flora of the Alaska Natives, (Alaska Heritage Program,

Environment and Natural Resources Institute, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska) 1999

Heller, Christine A., Wild Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, (Cooperative

Extension Service, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK) 1953 www.uaf.edu/ces

Holen, Davin L., William E. Simeone, and Liz Williams 2006 “Lake Minchumina,

Telida, Nikolai and Cantwell Subsistence Community Use Profiles and Traditional Fisheries Use,” Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 296. Juneau, Alaska 2004 www.subsistence.adfg.state.ak.us/TechPap/tp296.pdf

Hosley, Edward; Factionalism and Acculturation in an Alaskan Athapaskan Community,

(University of California, L.A) 1966 Ph.D Dissertation Jones, Eliza and Anderson, Katherine, Roots of Northern Athabascan Life – The Birch

Tree (Reprinted by the Iditarod Area School District, Alaska) 1984 Kari, Priscilla, R. comp, Dena’ina K’et’una – Tanaina Plantlore, (Adult Literacy

Laboratory, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK) 1977 Nelson, Richard K.; Make Prayers to the Raven – A Koyukon View of the Northern

Forest (University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL) 1983

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Nelson, Richard K., et al; Tracks in the Wildland A Portrayal of Koyukon and Nunamiut Subsistence (University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska) 1982

Nikolai Elementary Students; Athabaskan Recipes, (Iditarod Area Schools

Bilingual/Bicultural Program) 1980 Nikolai Middle School Students; Nikolai Hwnod Dinyaghe, (Top of the Kuskokwim

School, Nikolai, AK) 1998 A school project: leaf and plant collection. Pratt, Verna E., Alaska’s Wild Berries and Berry-like Fruit, (Alaskakrafts, Inc.,

Anchorage, AK) 1995 Pratt, Verna E., Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers Commonly seen along the

Highways and Byways, (Alaskakrafts Publishing, Anchorage, Alaska) 1989 Schofield, Janice J, Alaska’s Wild Plants – A Guide to Alaska’s Edible Harvest, (Alaska

Northwest Publishing, Portland, OR) 1999 Stanek, Sheryl and Butcher, Barbara, Collecting and Using Alaska’s Wild Berries and

Other Wild Products, (Alaska Cooperative Extension, College of Rural Alaska-University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK) 1998

Steinbright, Jan ed.; From Skins, Trees, Quills and Beads: The Work of Nine

Athabascans, (Institute of Alaska Native Arts) 1985 Stokes, Jeff; “Natural Resource Utilization of Four Upper Kuskokwim Communities,”

Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 86. Juneau, Alaska 1984. Also found online at: www.subsistence.adfg.state.ak.us/TechPap/tp086.pdf

Sullivan, Robert J., The Ten’a Food Quest, (The Catholic University of America Press,

Washington, D.C.) 1942 Ph.D. Dissertation Viereck, Leslie A., and Little, Elbert L., Alaska Trees and Shrubs, (Snowy Owl Books,

University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK) 2007 2nd Edition Viereck, Eleanor G., Alaska’s Wilderness Medicines – Healthful Plants of the Far North,

(Alaska Northwest Books, Portland, OR) 1987 White, Helen A., Alaska Wildberry Trails (With Recipes), (Anchorage, AK) 1973 Websites www.ankn.uaf.edu/publications/clipart/clipart/subsistence.html Clipart www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/units/Willow/index.html NW Alaska Willow Unit Study

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www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/units/spruce.html Athabascan Digging and Preparing Spruce Roots Unit Study

www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/units/snowshoe.html Athabascan Snowshoe Unit Study www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/units/plantstundra.html Yup’ik Plants of the Tundra Unit

Study www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/units/medplants.html Medicinal Plants of the Kodiak

Allutiiq Archipelago Unit Study

Gathering in the Upper Kuskokwim Appendices

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KWL Chart What Do You KNOW? What do you WANT to know? What Did you LEARN?

(form adapted from Project CRISS: Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies)

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Land Cover Types near McGrath Alaska (Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Map created by Will Putnam)

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Land Cover Types near Nikolai Alaska (Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Map)

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Land Cover Types near Takotna Alaska (Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Map)

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Land Cover Types near Telida Alaska (Tanana Chiefs Conference Forestry Map)

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Teacher Resources

Spruce Boughs

PhotoCourtesyofTeresaHansonandPhyliciaHanson

Photo courtesy of Mike Taras Copyright Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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Source of Information: Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Boreal Forest

www.wc.adfg.state.ak.us/index.cfm?adfg=ecosystems.borealwhere

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(Holen, et al 2006:115)

Salmonberries (nikotl') www.alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm

Blueberries www.alaskatrelder.com/berrypicking.htm

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Lowbush cranberries (netl’), also known

as lingonberries, www.alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm

Highbush cranberries (tsaltsa) www.alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm

Crowberry

www.alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm Raspberries (dwhnikots’)

www.alaskatrekker.com/berrypicking.htm

Timberberry See

www.arcticrose.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/041308-bearberry-and-kinnikinnick-plants

Wild Rose (Rosa acicularis)

www.arcticrose.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/041308-bearberry-and-kinnikinnick-plants

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Tree

Reprinted by the Iditarod Area School District, Inner Zasada, John 1985, The Life of a White Spruce in the Subarctic, Alaska Science Forum: March 18, 1985, Article #707, (Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks). www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/707.html

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Outer Spruce Bark

Spruce Tips

Spruce Cones (Dilodirushja)

Spruce Bark

Spruce Boughs (ił)

Young Spruce Tips

Inner Spruce Bark

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Athabascan Uses of Birch

Birch Bark Roofing Photo by Teresa Hanson

Serving spoon carved at 2009 Telida spring camp. Photo by Teresa Hanson

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Alaska Paper Birch

Kenai Birch

Cottonwood

Dwarf Artic

Birch

Cottonwood or Quaking Aspen

Balsam Poplar

Resin Birch

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Alder

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Willow (Salix sp.)

Skeleton Leaf WillowAlaska Bog Willow

Gray-leaf Willow

Willow Branch

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Wild Grasses Photo – Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service

Birch Punk

Caribou Moss

Hard White Punk

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Horse Tail

Fireweed

Dandelion

Wormwood

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Labrador Tea

Indian Potato, Wild Carrot

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Nettle