The Shared Beringian Heritage Program unites Russian and American scientists, land managers, and Native people in long-term, multidisciplinary research and management efforts that have focused on the study of traditional lifeways, biogeography, paleoenvironment, and landscape history in Central Beringia.
Central Beringia is defined as land and water lying between 64 degrees and 70 degrees north latitude and 156 degrees and 180 degrees west longitude. This includes four existing U.S. national park units in Northwest Alaska: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Kobuk Valley Natinoal Park, and Noatak National Preserve. It also includes the western portion of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
THE PURPOSES OF THE PROGRAM ARE:
1. to foster a climate of mutual understanding and cooperation between the United States and teh Russian Republic and the indigenous people of the Beringian region in environmental protection, conservation of flora and fauna, and historic preservation and interpretation;
2. to provide for the continued opportunity for customary and traditional subsistence uses of resources within Central Beringia, and recognition of unique and traditional activities fy indigenous people of the region;
3. to provide for the study, interpretation, and enjoyment of historic and archeological sites and resources of great international signigicance;
4. to provide the opportunity for the reestablishment of cultural traditions, including gift giving, customary and traditional barter and trade of subsistence resources, between indigenous people on both sides of the Bering Strait;
5. to meaningfully involve indigenous people and local communities of the Beringia region in the administration and management of programs and agreements of the international park;
6. to encourage and assist in the return, retention, storage, display, and interpretation of native artifacts from the Beringian region in or near the communities from which they originated;
7. to ensure that rural residents and Native allotment holders engaged in subsistence, cultural and traditional activities, including reindeer herding, shall have continued access on conservation system units as provided for in ANILCA;
PRODUCTS
FROM THE SHARED BERINGIAN HERITAGE RESEARCH PROGRAM (JUNE 1991 - MAY 1995
2001
BERINGIA PROJECTS WITH NPS PARTNERS
BERINGIA VIDEOS
RECENT (2004) BERINGIA PROJECTS WITH NPS PARTNERS
RECENT (2005) BERINGIA PROJECTS WITH NPS PARTNERS