Juneau’s Ethnographic History: Resilience in an Environment of Change

Abstract

Discovery Southeast senior naturalist Richard Carstensen will share insights from the past decade's collaboration with groups such as Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and Sealaska Heritage Institute, blending natural with cultural history. How, for example, does a study of glacial history illuminate the stories of clan migrations? How were village sites chosen in an archipelago of changing sea levels and radical climate change? And what does "resilience" mean ecologically? Why do we live here, and how can we pass along a viable future for tomorrow's Southeast Alaskans?