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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.
www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm
- Alaska - An Overview Of Its Political History - Native peoples, history of exploitation, discovery of oil, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
www.greenpeace.org/~comms/97/arctic/library/region/native.html
- Alaska Native Costume Bibliography - Costume books on different Alaska Native cultures that are easily available to tourists intended as an educational guide for the thousands of people who travel to Alaska each year.
www.costumes.org/pages/akbiblio.htm
- 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.
www.uaf.edu/anlc/index.html
- 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.
www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm
- Alaska Natives Online - Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history.
cooday8.tripod.com/tlingit1.htm
- 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.
www.alutiiqmuseum.com/wordoftheweek.htm
- Always Getting Ready - Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle.
mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/yupik/yupik.htm
- 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.
www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/index.html
- 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.
www.calistacorp.com/heritage.html
- 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.
www.afognak.com/dig/Welcome.html
- 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.
www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/early.htm
- Generalinfo - In Alaska there are three Eskimo groups. They are called the Yupik, Inupiat and Siberian Yupik.
tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3877/Generalinfo.html
- Heartbeat Alaska - Anchorage weekly television show hosted by Jeanie Greene features native artwork, videos, articles, message forum, and chatrooms.
www.jeaniegreene.com
- Huna Heritage Foundation - To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.
www.hunaheritage.org
- Indigenous Peoples of Alaska - An extensive resource, with maps, legislation, photos and Native legends from all corners of the state.
arcticculture.about.com/msub38ak.htm
- 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.
groups.yahoo.com/group/InuitCircumpolarConference-Alaska
- 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.
www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html
- Language Map and Index - Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.
www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm#
- 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.
www.si.edu/harcourt/nmnh/native/native3.html
- 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.
www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Yupik
- 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.
www.archives.gov
- 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.
alaskan.com/docs/shamanism.html
- The Arctic Studies Center - Native people, scholars and museum associates work together on a broad range of collaborative research.
www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/alaska.htm
- 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.
arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html
- 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.
www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Arch/guesswho/wdhsbyr.html
- 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.
www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/collect.html
- Alaska Native Heritage Center - Cultural history center for the Alaskan Native that is preserving knowledge handed down from generation to generation.
www.alaskanative.net
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