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Alaska: An American Colony. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. ISBN 0-295-98249-7. Henning, Robert, ed. (1981). Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing ...
After the Alaska Purchase, the multilingual-multicultural Alaskan society continued; English became increasingly important as more Americans immigrated to Alaska. In 1898 for example, Vladmir Modestov, a priest of the Russian Church, took a Creole boy named Iakov Orlov to San Francisco both to improve his Russian and to learn English; Modestov ...
In parallel with Alaska's cultural renaissance, crime began to grow in numerous pockets of Anchorage in the 1990s and 2000s. As was similarly the key influence in such genres as gangsta rap and hardcore hip-hop, artists such as 'Out Tha Cut (ODC)', 'Baydilla' or 'Joker the Bailbondsman' with ties to known drug traffickers began to see a flourishing first wave scene of underground hip-hop among ...
Alaska Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit state historical society in Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska Historical Society advocates for educational projects regarding Alaska's history. The Society holds an annual conference with a silent auction fundraiser and publishes a semi-annual historical journal, Alaska History and a quarterly ...
Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world. If it was an independent nation, it would be the 18th largest country in the world; almost the same size as Iran.
Sven Haakanson, Jr. (born 1967) is an American anthropologist who specializes in documenting and preserving the language and culture of the Alutiiq.He served, from 2000-2013, as Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska.
Richard K. Nelson (1 December 1941 — 4 November 2019), also known as "Nels", [1] was an American cultural anthropologist and writer. He grew up living in Wisconsin, receiving his education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [1] before earning his Ph.D. degree from the University of California. [2]
Their culture and society developed in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaskan coast and the Alexander Archipelago. The Tlingit have maintained a complex hunter-gatherer culture based on semi-sedentary management of fisheries. [11] Hereditary slavery was practiced extensively until it was outlawed by the United States Government. [12]