Alaska Natives Before Statehood
Alaska Natives Before Statehood | American Experience - PBS
Native Alaskans are divided into three broad groups: the Aleuts, the Inuit, and the many different Indian tribes.
Alaska - Native Tribes, Arctic Wildlife, Glaciers | Britannica
Alaskans voted in favour of statehood in 1946 and adopted a constitution in 1956. Congressional approval of the Alaska statehood bill in 1958 ...
Alaska Statehood and build up to Alaska Native Land Claims
Alaska went through the Department era, with no civilian government (1867-1884) to being a mining District (1867 – 1912), to a Territory (1912 – 1959), ...
Alaska Native Cultures - Alaska (U.S. National Park Service)
Alaska Native people have lived with the land long before it became a state or any national parks were established. Spanning from the ...
History - Alaska Federation of Natives
The Statehood Act did not recognize aboriginal title to Native lands, and the new state was about to select more than 103 million acres from the public domain.
Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous ...
Chapter 1 - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
For the purpose of this discussion, the terms Alaska Native and Native Alaskan are used interchangeably to denote individuals of indigenous descent and those ...
According to the 2014 Census update, 18% of Alaska's general population is American Indian or Alaska Native – the highest rate for this racial group of any ...
Our History - Tanana Chiefs Conference
May 1959. Statehood brings significant changes to governance and land ownership patterns in Alaska and increased the threat of native land loss with the State ...
Alaska: History - Tribes & Climate Change - nau.edu
As a result of disease, forced relocation, cultural assimilation and cultural confusion, and the growing number of white people the percentage of Native ...
FAQs - Alaska Historical Society
Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Bill into law on July 7, 1958. Alaskans accepted statehood as presented in the federal law the following month and ...
Native Peoples | Alaska | Articles and Essays | Meeting of Frontiers
... Alaska natives shared a legacy of interaction and conflict amongst themselves long before the arrival of Europeans. Forced by circumstance, most of them ...
Alaska Native Communities on Harriman's Route - PBS
Alaska's indigenous people, who are jointly called Alaska Natives, can be divided into five major groupings: Aleuts, Northern Eskimos (Inupiat), Southern ...
Alaska Native People - National Park Service
Alaska Native people have lived with the land long before it became a state or any national parks were established.
While it is clear from archeology and Native history that people have lived in parts of Alaska for 10,000 years, there is some evidence that colonization first ...
History of Alaska Natives Manuscript Draft - KPC Sites
Until recently, the generally understood concept of Alaska Native cultures was that they were primitive hunter gatherers living in small family groups wandering ...
Who lived in Alaska before it became a state? - Quora
By the turn of the 20th Century, Alaska Natives were no longer the majority. It was largely “white” Americans engaging in natural resource ...
Alaska Natives in the United States of America - Minority Rights Group
Alaska became the 49th and largest US state in 1959. In 1966, the Alaska Federation of Natives was formed and filed land claims covering the entire state.
A History of Alaska's Indigenous People - TheCollector
Today, between fifteen and twenty percent of Alaskan residents are Alaska Native, consisting of almost a score of distinct cultures.
Statehood and Other Events: Whales, Alaska Natives, and ...
Alaska has been a state for just sixty years. The political events by which the territory became the forty-ninth in the republic go ...