H Ikuta

Biographic Data

ID240043
NAMEH Ikuta
GIVEN NAMESH
FAMILY NAMEIkuta
SIGNATUREIKUTA H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Aberdeen
ORCID0000-0002-4454-4961
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Between Personal Recordings and Shared Heritage: Reflections on Data Stewardship

    Open AccessH P Huntington, H IkutaARTICLEARCTIC2026

  • Donlin Gold and the Politics of Extraction: Navigating Indigenous Sovereignty, Native Corporations, and Subsistence in Southwestern Alaska

    H Ikuta, Ryo KubotaARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2026

    This article examines the Donlin Gold mining project in Alaska’s Central Kuskokwim region—one of North America's largest proposed gold mines—where Indigenous self-determination intersects with large-scale resource extraction and subsistence lifeways. Located on lands owned by Alaska Native corporations under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Donlin illustrates the complex roles community members navigate as both shareholders in for-profit …

  • George Noongwook (1949–2023)

    Open AccessHenry Huntington, H P Huntington et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2023

    Island music; an ardent advocate of Yupik and Iñupiaq whaling rights through his decades-long service to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission; a dedicated and insightful scholar of his people and their environment; and devoted to his family and friends

  • Food Storage in Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground in Chukotka and Alaska Communities

    Open AccessKojiro Yoshikawa, Alexey A Maslakov et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2022

    Food cellars, otherwise referred to as ice or meat cellars, (lednik in Russian, k’aetyran in Chukchi, siġļuaq in Iñupiaq, and siqlugaq in Yupik) are a natural form of refrigeration in permafrost or seasonally frozen ground used to preserve, age, and ferment foods harvested for subsistence, including marine mammals, birds, fish, and plants. Indigenous peoples throughout the Arctic have constructed cellars in frozen ground for millennia. This paper…

  • Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska: A sociolinguistics of deglobalisation in endangered language

    Open AccessH IkutaARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

    Across Alaska, the popularity of indigenous forms of dance has risen, particularly in indigenous communities in which English dominates the heritage languages and Native youth have become monolingual English speakers. Some indigenous people say that Native dance accompanied by indigenous song is a way of preserving their endangered languages. With two case studies from Alaskan Eskimo communities, Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barr…

  • Embodied Knowledge, Relations with the Environment, and Political Negotiation: St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Inupiaq Dance in Alaska

    H IkutaARTICLEArctic Anthropology2011

    This article explores how Alaskan Eskimos’ relationship with the environment is recapitulated in their indigenous forms of dance and what roles these dances play in political discourse. Traditional dance has been a means by which Alaskan Eskimos express their sentiment about the environment. It often draws upon imagery of the landscape and seascape of the Arctic, human and animal interaction, and body movement of hunting and gathering activities.…

  • Iñupiaq pride: Kivgiq (Messenger Feast) on the Alaskan North Slope

    Open AccessH IkutaARTICLEÉtudes/Inuit/Studies2009Cited by: 1References: 21

    This paper explores tradition as dynamics of social life, history, and power relations and its meanings for local people through the examination of a revitalised ancient festival among Iñupiat on the Alaskan North Slope. In one form or another, Iñupiaq people had celebratedKivgiq(Messenger Feast) for many centuries. However, the earlier representations ofKivgiqwere discontinued in the early 20th century due to social, economic, and environmental …