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• - From the Arctic to the Amazon, this symposium explores masks and masking ceremonies, and their roles in transformation and the religions of the Americas.
  
• - Dr. Vyacheslav Ivanov, one of the foremost linguists of our day, reviews and evaluates the Alaskan Russian Church Archives.
  
• - The art of Chilkat Blanket weaving originated with the Tsimshian people (near Wrangell) but later spread to the Tlingits through trade and marriage. These blankets, requiring a year of hard work to make, were highly sought by northwest coast Indian nobili
  
• - Information and links to Aleution culture.
  
• - Dedicated to the study of northern peoples, their history and environment. Links, pictures and information.
  
• - Alaskans are the children of many nations. The legacy of Inupiat and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Indians. The descendants of Russians, and rugged prospectors.
  
• - Official Visitors Guide - Alutiiq People of Kodiak Island.
  
• - Various information, links to history and culture of the Arctic.
  
• - In an area stretching along the coastline from Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula, along the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea coasts, northward around Alaska, and eastwards across the arctic all the way to Greenland, the coastline is ice-bound in winter and t
  
• - Explore Alaska's land, wildlife, history, and people.
  
• - Wooden hats and visors were used by native Alaskan hunters, from the Yupik-speaking coastal dwellers south to the Aleutian Islanders.
  
• - designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.
  
• - Human populations began moving into Northeastern Siberia over sixteen thousand years ago from the more temperate regions of eastern Asia, spreading north and east with the passing of the last Ice Age until they crossed into the Americas via Alaska. That g
  
• - Committed to the post secondary education of Native American Indians, We offer degrees in creative writing, studio arts, visual communications and museum studies. Our campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico features a museum of contemporary Native American fine a
  
• - Current issues, related programs, services offered, events and schedules, and contact information.
  
• - 1867 - The United States purchased Alaska from Russia. The Treaty of Cession required that Alaska's Natives were "not to be disturbed" in their use and occupancy of their traditional lands.
  
• - The official site of the Alaska Historical Society, home to information about Alaska history and local historical societies throughout the state.
  
• - §801. The Congress finds and declares that -- (1) the continuation of the opportunity for subsistence uses by rural residents of Alaska, including both Natives and non-Natives, on the public lands and by Alaska Natives on Native lands is essential to N
  
• - A personal account of a young man's journey to a small Eskimo village in Alaska. Includes article, pictures, and links.
  
• - Cultural links for Alaska Native and American Indian history, art, culture, flags, celebrities, music, storytelling, dance, photographs, languages, and media.
  
• - Learn about life in an arctic village, Eskimo culture and tradition.