Writing

A critical examination of The Dawn of Everything's projection of contemporary political divisions onto prehistory, arguing that Graeber and Wengrow conflate complex 'heroic' hunter-gatherers with small-scale, non-resource-intensified subsistence peoples to dismiss the latter as politically reactionary.

Participatory landscape mapping of Dena'ina Athabascan and Yup'ik knowledge of caribou behavior, showing that access and prey-switching are the primary adaptations available to subsistence hunters facing ecological change. Presented at the Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies.

An argument that mobility is the critical factor in the current situation of Alaska's hunter-gatherers, examining how motorised access binds subsistence systems to cash economies and industrial energy, and how foragers are adapting to those constraints.

An anarcho-primitivist critique of the commodification of wild nature — opening with rhino poaching in the African veld and moving through 'green' capitalism, delayed-return dependency, and the transition and permaculture movements.

An interview on stone tool technologies — finding lithic sites and raw material sources on the landscape, and what atlatls, bows, and simple sharp flakes reveal about the deep history of human technical skill.

An account of traditional ski-hunting practices among indigenous Siberian peoples and their parallels to Alaska Native subsistence traditions.

A narrative of a winter caribou hunt in the Alaska backcountry, weaving together subsistence practice, ecology, and personal reflection.

Examining subsistence lifeways along the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska — fishing, hunting, and gathering traditions that persist in one of the most remote regions of North America.