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» A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty by Douglas K. Mertz  - Native legal claims to the sovereign right to control their own communities and their own tribal members.
» 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.
» 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 chr
» 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.
» Language Map and Index - Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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 March - 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.
» To Philly, From Alaska w/love - Daily life from inside the a traditional Native Alaskan Eskimo village. Subsistence hunting remains fundamental to survival.
» 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.
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Last Updated: 2007-03-14 21:53:20
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