Directory of Native Culture Resources

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This category lists sites for organizations, groups, activities, and resources for Alaskan Native cultures.

Resources in This Category

• A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty by Douglas K. Mertz

  http://www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm
  Native legal claims to the sovereign right to control their own communities and their own tribal members.

• Agayuliyararput: Our Way of Making Prayer

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik/
  The first exhibition of Native Alaskan Yup'ik material presented from a Yup'ik perspective. Includes photos of the masks, lessons learned, and audios and videos.

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network

  http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/
  Designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.

• Alaska Native Language Center

  http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/
  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.

• Alaska Native Villages

  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ak/alaska.html
  Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized links.

• Alaska Native/Native American Bibliography

  http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm
  Present day circumstances of Alaska Native societies as a part of the social, historical, and political fabric of the United States.

• Alaska Natives Online

  http://cooday8.tripod.com/alaska.htm
  Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history.

• Alutiiq Museum

  http://alutiiqmuseum.org/
  Information about the museum, the Alutiiq language, and Kodiak's cultural history.

• Always Getting Ready

  http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/exhibits/eskimo-subsistence/
  Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle.

• An Alutiiq Dance

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/
  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.

• ChiefEzi.Net

  http://www.chiefezi.net/
  Provides information for and about the history and culture as pertaining primarily to the Dena'ina of upper Cook Inlet. features editorial opinions, news archive, memorials, and photos.

• Dig Afognak Archaeological Expedition

  http://www.afognak.org/html/dig-afognak.php
  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.

• Huna Heritage Foundation

  http://www.hunaheritage.org/
  To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.

• Language Map and Index

  http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm#
  Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.

• Second "We the People" Alaska Native March

  http://camera.touchngo.com/March99/March.htm
  March for recognition of native rights. Photos from May 5, 1999, in Anchorage.

• Smithsonian Institution - Alaska Native Collections

  http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=93
  Mask from the lower Yukon River of Alaska, represents one way that Alaskan native peoples honor the animals on which they depend.

• The Arctic Studies Center

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/
  Native people, scholars, and museum associates work together on a broad range of research. Includes art and cultural history.

• The Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada

  http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html
  The people of the caribou occupy the southern slopes of the Brooks Range, brief history, photo, map, traditional management practices, and international caribou agreement.

• The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures

  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/s1a.html
  Dr. Vyacheslav Ivanov, one of the foremost linguists of our day, reviews and evaluates the Alaskan Russian Church Archives.

• To Philly, From Alaska w/love

  http://tunt.blogspot.com/
  Daily life from inside the a traditional Native Alaskan Eskimo village. Subsistence hunting remains fundamental to survival.

• Tradition and Transcendance in Russian America

  http://www.brynmawr.edu/archaeology/guesswho/wdhsbyr.html
  (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.

• William J. Fisher Collection

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/collect.html
  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.

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