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Alaska Native Costume Bibliography - Costume books on different Alaska Native cultures that are easily available to tourists intended as an educational guide for the thousands of people who travel to Alaska each year.
Alaska Native Heritage Center - Culture, programs, photos, education, resources, membership, calendar of events, goals and purpose, hours, admission price, news, and mission.
Alaska Native Language Center - Internationally known and recognized as the major center in the United States for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabaskan languages. Information and links.
Alaska Native culture, Indian Natives of Alaska, Subsistence - The prehistory of Alaska Natives can be described as cultural traditions, each of which represents a distinct life way that lasted for generations. Presenting subsistence, traditions, costumes, food, culture of the Athabaskan, Inupiat and Tlingit.
Alutiiq Word of the Week - A weekly Alutiiq language and culture lesson. Produced by KMXT, Kodiak, Alaska Public Radio Station, Alutiiq teacher Florence Pestrikoff, Alutiiq Museum Deputy Director/Curator Amy Steffian.
Always Getting Ready - Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle.
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 that lasted throughout the winter months. Dances and accompanying songs addressed powerful spirits who could help or harm human beings, and appealed to the souls of animals upon whom life depended.
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.
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.
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 chronology of the area.
Generalinfo - In Alaska there are three Eskimo groups. They are called the Yupik, Inupiat and Siberian Yupik.
Heartbeat Alaska - Half-hour program with news, home videos of village events and life, features, music and interviews. Available in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka, Alaska Rural Television, and various Canadian stations.
Huna Heritage Foundation - To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.
Indigenous Peoples of Alaska - An extensive resource, with maps, legislation, photos and Native legends from all corners of the state.
InuitCircumpolarConference-Alaska - eGroups forum - seeks to be the leading Inuit information provider on the internet. Audiences are tribal, local, state, federal, international, and non-profit groups. Providing information relevant to advancing the Inuit way of life. Non-Inuit and Inuit are invited to join our service.
Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile - Preceding early European impact Inupiaq communities extended from the Norton Sound, south to the Canadian border. Numerous district dialects of Inupiaq were associated with a particular territory or community. Some Inupiaq people remained close to established communities while others were mobile.
Language Map and Index - Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.
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.
North Pacific and Neo-Arctic Shamanism - These cultures are represented by four groups: the Aleut, the most maritime-adapted of all North Pacific peoples; Eskimos, whose earliest culture in this region dates from 8,000 years ago; Athapaskans, a forest-dwelling culture of hunters and trappers; and Northwest Coast Indians, represented by the Tlingit.
Protecting Alaska's Native Population-With Federal Records - In this most marginal of habitable land, Federal agents not only found something to keep themselves busy but controlled perhaps the most tightlymanaged, longest-running government program in the history of the Republic.
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