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Yup'ik Women's Ways of Knowing.
Bennett, Kathleen; And Others – 1988
This paper describes storyknifing activities practiced by a small group of young girls in a Yup'ik Eskimo village on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska. Storyknifing is a form of play in which girls tell stories to one another, while making drawings and designs in mud or snow. The girls will sit in a circle for hours at a time, taking turns telling…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Childrens Games, Cultural Education, Eskimos
The Development of a Chronology of Critical Events as used in The Study of ATS-6 Educational Demonstration in Alaska: An Alternative Method to Field Work for Program Evaluation and the Generation of Policy Issues.
Hecht, Kathryn A. – 1976
Historical documents and interview data are compiled to develop a chronology of critical events used in studying the impact of the Applications Technology Satellite educational demonstration (ATS-6) in Alaska. This method of evaluation was implemented as a parallel approach to that of gathering data in the villages from Native informants and from…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communications Satellites, Cross Cultural Studies, Data Collection