Subsistence Economies in Rural Alaska 1

• Federal law has protected subsistence used by "rural Alaska residents since 1980.
• The rural language was a political compromise that primarily intended to protect the subsistence that is used by Alaska Natives.

Subsistence economies in Rural Alaska 1 A " Rural Social Economic system

• The term 'rural' means a type of rural social economic system'that is in Alaska.
• The understanding of the term 'rural' that is a type of social economic system has developed to conform with an actual pattern of subsistence in Alaska communities.

Subsistence Economies in Rural Alaska 2 Kinship Groups and Small-Scale Technology

• The high levels of production and comsumption of the wild foods is only one characteristic of the subsistence social economic systems that is in Alaska.
• This kind of social form is sometimes called the domestic mode of production.

Subsistence Economies in Rural Alaska 3 Territories and Traditional Knowledge

• The subsistence foods are produced from tradtional territories accessible communities by a boat or the ground transport.
• Community subsistence areas are commonly in the traditional lands of a local tribal group.