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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register , Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [ 1 ] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231.
Alaska Native Languages American Indians and Alaska Natives in Alaska. Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native or Native Alaskan peoples, who are largely defined by their historical languages (within each culture are different tribes):
This is a list of Haida villages, located in Haida Gwaii and Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The following list includes material from John R. Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America, publ. 1953, and from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. [1] [2]
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Alaska whose names are derived from Native American languages.
The Act lays out the specifics of the corporations' status. Here is an excerpt of the relevant portion: [5] 43 U.S.C. § 1606 (a) Division of Alaska into twelve geographic regions; common heritage and common interest of region; area of region commensurate with operations of Native association; boundary disputes, arbitration.
The following is a partial list of United States of America (U.S.) communities with Native-American majority populations.It includes United States cities and towns in which a majority (over half) of the population is Native American (American Indian or Alaska Native), according to data from the 2020 Census.
Venango - An eastern Native American name in reference to a figure found on a tree, carved by the Erie. Waco - Named after Waco, Texas, which is the name of one of the divisions of the Tawokoni whose village stood on the site of Waco, Texas. Wahoo; Winnebago; Wyoming - Derived from a corrupted Delaware word meaning "large plains" or "extensive ...
Kaktovik Village is headquartered in the city of Kaktovik in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 231 enrolled citizens. [3]American institutions hold 700 Native American remains of interest to Kaktovik Village. 23 remains and 4,900 funerary objects have been repatriated to the tribe. 21 remains were repatriated by the U.S. Department of the Interior and two remains ...