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A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty by Douglas K
Native legal claims to the sovereign right to control their own communities and their own tribal members.
Alaska - An Overview Of Its Political History
Native peoples, history of exploitation, discovery of oil, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Cultural history center for the Alaskan Native that is preserving knowledge handed down from generation to generation.
Alaska Native Language Center
Center for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabaskan languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. ANLC works to document and promote the twenty Native languages of Alaska.
Alaska Native Villages
Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized links.
Alaska Native/Native American Bibliography
Present day circumstances of Alaska Native societies as a part of the social, historical, and political fabric of the United States.
Alaska Natives Online
Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history.
Alaskan Native Carvers Gallery
A virtual gallery, displaying the work of Alaskan Native carvers from the Bering Strait region.
Alutiiq Museum
Information about the museum, the Alutiiq language, and Kodiak's cultural history.
Always Getting Ready
Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle.
An Alutiiq Dance
Each fall, after the end of salmon fishing and the berry harvest, the Alutiiq people of southern coastal Alaska held a series of festivals and spiritual ceremonies. Description of a dance and photos of art.
Cultural Heritage of the Calista Region
Corporation of Yup'ik, Cup'ik and Athabascan people, their subsistence way of life, resource, development, business enterprises, corporate profile, and links.
Dig Afognak Archaeological Expedition
A participatory archaeological field camp in Alaska on Afognak Island. Learn about the prehistoric and historic lifeways of the Alutiiq people and the landscape that shaped their lives and culture.
Early Prehistory of Alaska
A region so large (one fifth the size of the continental United States), and diverse ecologically, physiologically, and culturally that any synthesis must be skeletal in nature. Provided here is a general description of the broad units of the cultural chronology of the area.
Heartbeat Alaska
Anchorage weekly television show hosted by Jeanie Greene features native artwork, videos, articles, message forum, and chatrooms.
Huna Heritage Foundation
To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.
Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile
History, language, culture, and health issues of the Inupiaq Eskimos in Alaska.
Language Map and Index
Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.
Native American Management Services, Inc.
Provides grant assistance. A contractor for the Administration for Native Americans, which promotes social and economic self-sufficiency for Native Americans.
NMNH Virtual Tour - Native Cultures
Mask from the lower Yukon River of Alaska, represents one way that Alaskan native peoples honor the animals on which they depend.
Our Way of Making Prayers
Yup'ik masks of the Agayuliyararput Exhibit, dance and ceremony, shamans, historical perspective, common themes, lessons, ecology, habitat, and glossary, and teacher's curriculum guide.
Second "We the People" Alaska Native Mar
March for recognition of native rights. Photos from May 5, 1999, in Anchorage.
Shamanism
The Tlingit Indians believed in malevolent spirits that interfered with their lives. Only an individual who possessed certain knowledge, i.e. the shaman, could intercede and break their power.
The Arctic Studies Center
Native people, scholars, and museum associates work together on a broad range of research. Includes art and cultural history.
The Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada
The people of the caribou occupy the southern slopes of the Brooks Range, brief history, photo, map, traditional management practices, and international caribou agreement.
Tradition and Transcendance in Russian America
(Re)constructing identity in the ancient world. An archaeological approach to identity in colonial contexts. Scholars have argued that the Alutiiq of the Kodiak archipelago have been present as a north Pacific indigenous culture for the last 7,000 years.
William J. Fisher Collection
Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. The exhibition is being researched and planned at the Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage, in partnership with the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak.