Alaska Natives
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Alaska Natives are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska in the United States. They encompass diverse cultural and linguistic groups, including Inupiat, Aleut, Yupik peoples, and American Indians such as t
Alaskan Yup'ik Native dancer performing in Fairbanks (2013)
Alaska Native Languages
Yupik mother and child, Nunivak Island, c. 1929; photographed by Edward S. Curtis.
Metlakahtla brass band
Iñupiat
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The Iñupiat, also known as Alaskan Inuit, are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–U
Alaska Natives
…Alaska Natives are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska in the United States. They encompass diverse cultural and linguistic groups, including Inupiat, Aleut, Yupik peoples, and American Indians such as the Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and various Northern Athabaskan. Most Alaska Natives are…
Iñupiaq woman sharing a kunik with a small child at a Nalukataq in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2007
Semi-underground men's community house (Qargi) with bowhead whale bones, Point Hope, Alaska, 1885
Iñupiaq high-kickball, ca. 1910, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, collection of the NMAI
An Inupiat family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, photograph by Edward S. Curtis