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Alaska Natives Online Alaska Natives Online: Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history. (Native Culture) http://cooday8.tripod.com/tlingit1.htm Huna Heritage Foundation Huna Heritage Foundation: To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People. (Native Culture) http://www.hunaheritage.org An Alutiiq Dance 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. Description of a dance and photos of art. (Native Culture) http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/index.html Language Map and Index Language Map and Index: Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages. (Native Culture) http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm# Alaskan Native Carvers Gallery Alaskan Native Carvers Gallery: A virtual gallery, displaying the work of Alaskan Native carvers from the Bering Strait region. (Native Culture) http://www.bssd.org/eskimo_art/index.html Alaska Native Villages Alaska Native Villages: Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized links. (Native Culture) http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ak/alaska.html Dig Afognak Archaeological Expedition 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. (Native Culture) http://www.afognak.com/dig/Welcome.html Alaska Native Heritage Center Alaska Native Heritage Center: Cultural history center for the Alaskan Native that is preserving knowledge handed down from generation to generation. (Native Culture) http://www.alaskanative.net/ Early Prehistory of Alaska 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 chr (Native Culture) http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/early.htm Alutiiq Museum Alutiiq Museum: Information about the museum, the Alutiiq language, and Kodiak's cultural history. (Native Culture) http://www.alutiiqmuseum.com/ Tradition and Transcendance in Russian America 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. (Native Culture) http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Arch/guesswho/wdhsbyr.html Cultural Heritage of the Calista Region 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. (Native Culture) http://www.calistacorp.com/heritage.html Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile: History, language, culture, and health issues of the Inupiaq Eskimos in Alaska. (Native Culture) http://nnlm.gov/pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html Shamanism 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. (Native Culture) http://alaskan.com/docs/shamanism.html Native American Management Services, Inc. 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. (Native Culture) http://www.anaalaska.org/ Always Getting Ready Always Getting Ready: Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle. (Native Culture) http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/yupik/yupik.htm The Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada 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. (Native Culture) http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty by Douglas K. Mertz 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. (Native Culture) http://www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm Heartbeat Alaska Heartbeat Alaska: Anchorage weekly television show hosted by Jeanie Greene features native artwork, videos, articles, message forum, and chatrooms. (Native Culture) http://www.jeaniegreene.com/ Alaska - An Overview Of Its Political History Alaska - An Overview Of Its Political History: Native peoples, history of exploitation, discovery of oil, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. (Native Culture) http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/97/arctic/library/region/native.html William J. Fisher Collection 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. (Native Culture) http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/collect.html Second "We the People" Alaska Native March Second "We the People" Alaska Native March: March for recognition of native rights. Photos from May 5, 1999, in Anchorage. (Native Culture) http://camera.touchngo.com/March99/March.htm Alaska Native/Native American Bibliography 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. (Native Culture) http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm Our Way of Making Prayers 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. (Native Culture) http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Yupik/ NMNH Virtual Tour - Native Cultures 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. (Native Culture) http://www.si.edu/harcourt/nmnh/native/native3.html Alaska Native Language Center Alaska Native Language Center: Center for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabaskan languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. ANLC works to document and promote the twenty Native languages of Alaska. (Native Culture) http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/ The Arctic Studies Center The Arctic Studies Center: Native people, scholars, and museum associates work together on a broad range of research. Includes art and cultural history. (Native Culture) http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/