Alaska Natives Information
Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Inuit, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.
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. An example of this separate treatment is that Alaska Natives are allowed the harvesting of whales and other marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. In addition, Alaska Natives were not given title to land under the Dawes Act but were instead treated under the Alaska Native Allotment Act until it was repealed in 1971. Another characteristic difference is that Alaska Native tribal governments do not have the power to collect taxes for business transacted on tribal land, per the United States Supreme Court decision in Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government because Alaska Natives (except for Tsimshians) do not hold reservations.
Subsistence
Gathering of subsistence foodstuffs continues to be an important economic and cultural activity for many Alaska Natives.[2] In Barrow, Alaska, over ninety-one percent of the Iñupiat households that were interviewed participate in the local subsistence economy, compared with approximately two-thirds of non-Iñupiat households did not use wild resources obtained from hunting, fishing, or gathering.[3] However, unlike many tribes in the contiguous United States, Alaska Natives do not have treaties with the United States that protect their subsistence rights.[4] Further, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, explicitly extinguished aboriginal hunting and fishing rights in the state of Alaska.[5]
Cultures
Alaska Native Languages
American Indians and Alaska Natives in Alaska.
Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native cultures. Within each culture are many different tribes.
See also
References
- ^ Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development. (2006). "Table 1.8 Alaska Native American Population Alone By Age And Male/Female, July 1, 2006." Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development, Research & Analysis. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
- ^ Elizabeth Barrett Ristroph, Alaska Tribes' Melting Subsistence Rights, 1 Ariz. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 1, 2010, Available at http://ajelp.com/documents/RistrophFinal.pdf
- ^ URS CORP., BARROW VILLAGE PROFILE 4.3-6 (2005), available at http://www.north-slope.org/information/comp_plan/BarrowVillageProfile06.pdf
- ^ Elizabeth Barrett Ristroph, Alaska Tribes' Melting Subsistence Rights, 1 Ariz. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 1, 2010, Available at http://www.ajelp.com/2010/RistrophFinal.pdf
- ^ 43 U.S.C. § 1603(b) (2006)
External links
|
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alaska Natives |
| · ·
Demographics of the United States |
|
| Demographic history |
|
| Economic and social |
Affluence · Educational attainment · Emigration · Homeownership · Household income · Immigration · Income inequality · Language · LGBT · Middle classes · Personal income · Poverty · Social class · Unemployment by state · Wealth
|
|
|
| Religion |
Prominent examples: Buddhists · Christians (Catholics, , etc.) · Hindus · Jews · Muslims · Neopagans · Non-religious · Sikhs
|
|
| Race and ethnicity |
People of the United States/Americans · Ethnic groups in the United States · American people by ethnic or national origin · History of the United States by ethnic group · American culture by ethnicity · Race and ethnicity in the Census · Maps of American ancestries · 2010 Census · in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Racism
White Americans (European Americans, Non-Hispanic Whites, White Hispanic and Latino Americans, Arab Americans, English Americans, German Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, etc.) · Black Americans (African Americans, Black Hispanic and Latino Americans, African immigrants and descendants, Afro-Caribbean/West Indian Americans, etc.) · Asian Americans (Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Japanese Americans, Pakistani Americans, etc.) · Hispanic and Latino Americans (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans (Stateside), Cuban Americans, Colombian Americans, etc.) · Jewish Americans · Multiracial Americans · Native Americans and Alaska Natives · Pacific Islander Americans (Chamorro Americans, Native Hawaiians, Samoan Americans, etc.)
|
|
Categories: Alaska Native people | Ethnic groups in the United States
|
The above information uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Fri Apr 20 12:17:27 2012.
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.
|
|
