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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anth_fac Part of the Anthropology Commons, and the Indigenous Studies Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Citation Details Deur, D., Evanoff, K., & Hebert, J. (2020). “Their Markers as they Go”: Modified rT ees as Waypoints in the Dena’ina Cultural Landscape, Alaska. Human Ecology, 48(3), 317-333. This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. Human Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00163-3 “Their Markers as they Go”: Modified Trees as Waypoints in the Dena’ina Cultural Landscape, Alaska Douglas Deur1 & Karen Evanoff2 & Jamie Hebert1 # The Author(s) 2020 Abstract The Inland Dena’ina, an Athabaskan people of south-central Alaska, produce and value Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) in myriad ways. Ethnographic interviews and field visits conducted with Inland Dena’ina residents of the village of Nondalton, Alaska, reveal the centrality of CMTs in the creation and valuation of an Indigenous cultural landscape. CMTs serve as waypoints along trails, as Dena’ina people travel across vast distances to hunt wide-ranging caribou herds and fish salmon ascending rivers from Bristol Bay.