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Judith Dax̱ootsú Ramos

Assistant Professor of Northwest Coast Arts, University of Alaska Southeast

Judith’s Dax̱ootsú Ramos is Tlingit from Yakutat, Alaska. She worked for Yakutat Tlingit Tribe as an anthropologist. She is a co-curator for the Northwest Coast Hall renovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Her publications include: Ramos, J. (2020). Tlingit Hunting along the Edge: Ice Floe Harbor Seal Hunting in Yakutat Bay, Alaska., A. Crowell (ED.), Arctic crashes: People and animals in the changing north. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Scholarly Press; “This is Kuxaankutaan’s (Dr. Frederica de Laguna’s) Song” with Elaine Abraham: and “Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Tlingit People Concerning the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Dry Bay Area” with Rachel Mason.

Daughter of Elaine Abraham and George Ramos, mother of Kai Abraham Monture and Maka Jinatlaa Monture.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Northwest Coast Arts, University of Alaska Southeast