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Accepted Paper:
Place Name Hotspots and the Intersection of Language and Environment
Thomas Thornton
(University of Alaska Southeast)
Paper short abstract:
Place Name "hotspots", clusters of Indigenous toponyms, reveal patterns of human perception, settlement and use of bioculturally diverse environments. I explore these hotspots through analysis of Tlingit country in Southeast Alaska to explore relationships between language and environment.
Paper long abstract:
Place Name "hotspots", dense clusters of Indigenous toponyms, reveal patterns of human perception, settlement, and use of bioculturally diverse environments. I present and illustrate the concept of place name "hotspots" using GIS and a database of 3500 Tlingit and other Indigenous Southeast Alaska toponyms, in combination with other ethnographic and environmental data, to explore what densities of place names reveal about key relationships between Indigenous populations and their environments in Southeast Alaska with comparative reference to other regions of the North Pacific coast of North America.