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Alaskan Natives are Aboriginal Americans who live in Alaska. They include the Inupiaq, Yupik, and Aleut peoples. In 1918 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and money claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the situation in Canada where the Inuit and First Nations are treated separately, Alaskan Natives are in some respects treated separately from Native Americans in the U.S. There is an extremely high suicide rate for Alaskan Natives, with just over 1 in 4 children 15 to 18 committing suicide each year. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... The Inupiat or Iñupiaq are the Inuit people of Alaskas Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits region. ... The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan language, Yupik, are aboriginal people who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River (Central Alaskan Yupik), in southern Alaska (the Alutiiq) and in the Russian Far East and St. ... The Aleuts (self-denomination: Unangax) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, U.S.A.. The homeland of the Aleuts includes the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilof Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula. ... The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was signed into law on December 18, 1971, and the largest land claims settlement in United States history was concluded. ... Inuit woman Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, singular Inuk or Inuq / ᐃᓄᒃ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ... First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...


This is a full list of the different Alaska Native cultures. Within each culture are many many different tribes.


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Native Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (308 words)
Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context.
In the history of the United States in the 19th century, Native Americans refers to members of the Native American Party or the associated movement, which has come to be known instead by a derisive nickname, as the Know-Nothing movement.
Native American name controversy, on the differing uses and attitudes surrounding the term "Native American".
The Emergence of Native Alaskan Political Capacity, 1959-1971 (7678 words)
In response to these crises native protest organizations were formed in the separate ethnic regions of the State, and as an expression of some degree of Pan-Native unity, the Alaska Federation of Natives was formed in 1967 to pursue the land claims question.
Native ownership of land in Alaska was not resolved with the American purchase of Alaska in 1867 (Treaty of Cession) nor was it to be resolved for over 100 years, until the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971.
Prior to Alaskan statehood in 1959 Alaskan natives were, for the most part, left undisturbed in their subsistence relationships with the land.
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