Indigenous Engagement with the Alexander Archipelago Wolf: Cultural Context and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Final Report

Indigenous Engagement with the Alexander Archipelago Wolf: Cultural Context and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Final Report
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Final Report

Submitted to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service by Sealaska Heritage Institute
Cooperative Agreement Number F22AC00887
December 31, 2023


The Service’s Species Status Assessment in response to a petition to list the Alexander Archipelago wolf under the ESA couldn’t have been adequately prepared without including the voices of Indigenous people who have a deep connection with the species and an understanding of wolves that differs from the Western scientific understanding.

Devlin Shaag̱aw Éesh Anderstrom
Jeffrey J. Brooks
Jon Rowan
Judith Dax̠ootsú Ramos
Michael Kauish Jackson
Michael Gitwaayne Douville
Scott Gus’tú Jackson
Sidney C. Edenshaw
Stephen J. Langdon
Thomas Allen George
Thomas Mills
Tony Sanderson
Chuck Smythe
Stanley Yeilwú Hotch
Tim Ackerman
Eldon C. Atkinson
Nathan Jackson
Richard Jackson
John Kéet Eesháank'i Katzeek
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The Alexander Archipelago wolf is a subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus) that occurs along the mainland of Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia west of the Coast Mountains and on larger islands except Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof islands and all the Haida Gwaii, or Queen...

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Animalia
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Coastal
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Tundra
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Traditional ecological knowledge
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Alaska