Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples who live in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. They include Inuit (specifically Inupiat) and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and several Native American peoples.

History

In 1912 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded.

In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and financial claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the status of the Canadian Inuit and First Nations, which are recognized as distinct peoples, Alaska Natives are in some respects treated separately from Native Americans in the United States.

Cultures

Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native cultures. Within each culture are many different tribes.
*Aleut (in their own language they refer to themselves as Unangan)
*Athabascan
**Ahtna
**Deg Hit'an
**Dena'ina
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**Hän
**Holikachuk
**Kolchan
**Koyukon
**Lower Tanana
**Tanacross
**Tsetsaut
**Upper Tanana
*Eyak
*Haida
*Inupiaq (an Inuit people)
*Sugpiaq (also known as the Alutiiq)
*Tlingit
*Tsimshian
*Yupik (related to the Inuit)
**Siberian Yup'ik

See also

* List of Native Alaskan Tribal Entities — the list of officially recognized Native Villages and other "tribal entities", according to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.

External links

*Alaska Federation of Natives
*First Alaskans Institute
*Alaska Native Health Board