Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Yukon.
She has lived and worked for over a decade in the Yukon Territory, creating an oral history of the region, through her work with people including Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned.
Her work focuses mainly on the practical and theoretical developments in oral tradition studies.
[4] In 2006, Cruikshank's book from the University of Washington press, Do Glaciers Listen?
[5] The book also won the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing in 2006.