Directory > Regional > North America > United States > Alaska > Society and Culture > Native Culture Alaska Native Villages Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized links. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ak/alaska.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Language Map and Index Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages. http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm# Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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