Ahtna Travel Narratives

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna Athabascans possess a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise landscape classifications, including Ahtna place names and river directionals, these indigenous travel narratives represent walking tours comprising more than one thousand miles of traditional routes and trails in the Ahtna-language area. Provided context for these narratives are maps, photos, interviews, and a wealth of ethnographic, linguistic, historical, and methodological information.