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Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized
links.
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ak/alaska.html
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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.
http://www.anaalaska.org/
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Protecting Alaska's Native Population-With Federal Records
In this most marginal of habitable land, Federal agents not only found something to keep themselves
busy but controlled perhaps the most tightlymanaged, longest-running government program in the
history of the Republic.
http://www.archives.gov/
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InuitCircumpolarConference-Alaska
Seeks to be the leading Inuit information provider on the internet. Audiences are tribal, local,
state, federal, international, and non-profit groups. Providing information relevant to advancing
the Inuit way of life. Non-Inuit and Inuit are invited to join the service.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InuitCircumpolarConference-Alaska/
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Alaska - An Overview Of Its Political History
Native peoples, history of exploitation, discovery of oil, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act.
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/97/arctic/library/region/native.html
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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.
http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm
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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.
http://www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm
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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.
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html
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Alaska Natives Online
Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history.
http://cooday8.tripod.com/tlingit1.htm
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Generalinfo
In Alaska there are three Eskimo groups. They are called the Yupik, Inupiat and Siberian Yupik.
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3877/Generalinfo.html
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Alaska Native Language Center
Internationally known and recognized as the major center in the United States for the study of
Eskimo and Northern Athabaskan languages. Information and links.
http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/index.html
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Alutiiq Word of the Week
A weekly Alutiiq language and culture lesson. Produced by KMXT, Kodiak, Alaska Public Radio
Station, Alutiiq teacher Florence Pestrikoff, Alutiiq Museum Deputy Director/Curator Amy Steffian.
http://www.alutiiqmuseum.com/wordoftheweek.htm
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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.
http://www.si.edu/harcourt/nmnh/native/native3.html
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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.
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Yupik/
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Language Map and Index
Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.
http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm#
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Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile
Preceding early European impact Inupiaq communities extended from the Norton Sound, south to the
Canadian border. Numerous district dialects of Inupiaq were associated with a particular territory
or community. Some Inupiaq people remained close to established communities while others were
mobile.
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html
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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.
http://alaskan.com/docs/shamanism.html
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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.
http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/early.htm
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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.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/collect.html
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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.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Arch/guesswho/wdhsbyr.html
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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 that lasted throughout the
winter months. Dances and accompanying songs addressed powerful spirits who could help or harm
human beings, and appealed to the souls of animals upon whom life depended.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/index.html
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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.
http://www.afognak.com/dig/Welcome.html
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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.
http://www.calistacorp.com/heritage.html
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The Arctic Studies Center
Native people, scholars and museum associates work together on a broad range of collaborative
research.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/alaska.htm
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Always Getting Ready
Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual
subsistence cycle.
http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/yupik/yupik.htm
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Alaska Native Heritage Center
Cultural history center for the Alaskan Native that is preserving knowledge handed down from
generation to generation.
http://www.alaskanative.net/
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Indigenous Peoples of Alaska
An extensive resource, with maps, legislation, photos and Native legends from all corners of the
state.
http://arcticculture.about.com/msub38ak.htm
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Huna Heritage Foundation
To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.
http://www.hunaheritage.org
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Heartbeat Alaska
Anchorage weekly television show hosted by Jeanie Greene features native artwork, videos, articles,
message forum, and chatrooms.
http://www.jeaniegreene.com/
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