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    Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty...
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    Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous...
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    Аляски) are Alaska Native peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the interior of Alaska.[citation...
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  • University-Medical District, adjacent to the Alaska Native Medical Center, Alaska Pacific University and Providence Alaska Medical Center. UAA is divided into...
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  • The Alaska Native Arts Foundation (2002–present) is a non-profit organization formed to support the Alaska Native art community. Its mission is focused...
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  • The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting what is still the largest...
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    commonly used native art as the motif of many of her early paintings. Alaska Native art Button blanket Chilkat weaving Coast Salish art Formline art Haida argillite...
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  • The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is a non-profit health center based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which provides medical services to 158...
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    Yup'ik (redirect from West Alaska Eskimos)
    of Nunivak Island. The Yupiit are the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yupʼik language, a member of the...
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    Alaska Native storytelling has been passed down through generations by means of oral presentation. The stories tell life lessons or serve as lessons in...
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  • Alvin Eli Amason (category Artists from Alaska)
    University of Alaska Fairbanks and was the head of the Alaska Native Art studies program there. After retiring, he was asked to join the Department of Art at the...
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  • Native Art Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is an art school located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), near Fairbanks, Alaska....
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    toy, and art form all rolled into one. One of their most popular forms of the Alaska Native art are yo-yos. Also, this is a popular tourist art found in...
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    instead. However, "Eskimo" is still considered acceptable among some Alaska Natives of Yupik and Inupiaq (Inuit) heritage and is at times preferred over...
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    on 2013-04-25. Susan W. Fair (2006). Alaska Native Art: Tradition, Innovation, Continuity. University of Alaska Press. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-1-889963-79-2...
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    Retrieved July 28, 2019. "Brevig Mission and Teller, Alaska | Maruskiya's of Nome Alaska Native Art". www.maruskiyas.com. Retrieved July 28, 2019. "US Gazetteer...
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    people and enhance self-esteem among Native people. The Alaska Native Arts Foundation promotes and markets Native art from all regions and cultures in the...
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    2008-08-30. Hohenstatt, Ben (2019-06-20). "FDR's New Deal helped preserve Alaska Native art, like these three totem poles in Juneau". Juneau Empire. Retrieved...
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    United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", which it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original...
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    offering college- and graduate-level art courses in 1975. In 1986, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development was congressionally...
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    Baleen basketry (category Alaska Native culture)
    particular type of basketry, an Alaska Native art made from whale baleen developed in Barrow, Point Hope, and Wainwright, Alaska by North Alaskan Iñupiaq people...
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    Museum is a large art, history, ethnography, ecology and science museum located in a modern building in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska. It is dedicated...
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    Scouting in Alaska Alaska Native art Cinema in Alaska Alaska Film Archives Films set in Alaska Music of Alaska Sports in Alaska Alaska Sports Hall of Fame State...
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    Klondike Gold Rush. The Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded in Sitka in 1912 to address racism against Alaska Native people in Alaska. By 1914, the organization...
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    Shamanism among Alaska Natives was particularly important as it served to construct their special connection to their land, and a kinship with the animals...
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    Marion Tuu'luq Natar Ungalaaq Alaska Native art Arctic Experience McNaught Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario North America Native Museum Inukshuk List of Inuit...
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    Inuit art from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland Baleen basket with whale tooth finial, by George Omnik (Iñupiaq, 1905–1978), Alaska; Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii...
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    Eyak (redirect from Native Village of Eyak)
    Village at Mile 6") are an Alaska Native people historically located on the Copper River Delta and near the town of Cordova, Alaska. Today, Eyak people live...
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    now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from...
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    art, and Southeast Alaska Indian cultures and historical events; canoe racing; dance performances; film screenings; poetry gatherings; and a Native fashion...
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