Dedicated to the study of northern peoples, their history and environment. Links, pictures and information.
designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.
Wooden hats and visors were used by native Alaskan hunters, from the Yupik-speaking coastal dwellers south to the Aleutian Islanders.
The official site of the Alaska Historical Society, home to information about Alaska history and local historical societies throughout the state.
Explore Alaska's land, wildlife, history, and people.
Alaskans are the children of many nations. The legacy of Inupiat and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Indians. The descendants of Russians, and rugged prospectors.
Information and links to Aleution culture.
Current issues, related programs, services offered, events and schedules, and contact information.
From the Arctic to the Amazon, this symposium explores masks and masking ceremonies, and their roles in transformation and the religions of the Americas.
In an area stretching along the coastline from Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula, along the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea coasts, northward around Alaska, and eastwards across the arctic all the way to Greenland, the coastline is ice-bound in winter and the terrain is generally treeless. In this zone, which can be up to several hundred kilometers broad, developed much of the culture of modern Eskimo (Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska) peoples.
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