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Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization and assimilation. It is generally associated with the American anthropologist Franz Boas; [1] he and his students aimed to record vanishing Native American cultures. [2]
The Ipiutak culture is defined by a distinctive linear, circle and dot aesthetic, that closely resembles the Old Bering Sea culture, which is restricted to Bering Strait and adjacent Siberia. Ipiutak is contemporaneous with the later phases of Old Bering Sea and very likely had had political, economic and social ties with it.
There’s a rural community in Alaska that is known for dog sled racing and its gold rush history.. But it’s also become known for dozens of mysterious disappearances. In June 2016, Joseph ...
The gold rush in the 1900s brought an unfathomable wave of mixed races of men and women to Nome, Alaska, where the King Island residents were still relocating to at the time. With the turn of the times and more and more outsiders relocating to Nome, along with the school closing down on King Island and its only teacher instructed to teach on ...
Sealaska Corporation is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Headquartered in Juneau , Alaska , Sealaska is a for-profit corporation with more than 23,000 Alaska Native shareholders [ 1 ] primarily of Tlingit , Haida ...
Billions of crabs ultimately starved to death, devastating Alaska’s fishing industry in the years that followed. Molts and shells from snow crab sit on a table in June at the Alaska Fisheries ...
Their Eyak name is ʔi·ya·ɢdəlahɢəyu·, which translates literally to "inhabitants of Eyak Village at Mile 6" [2]) . The now-common name Eyak for both the ethnic group and its language is an exonym and comes from the Sugt'stun (Alutiit'stun) dialect of Chugach Sugpiaq, a group of Sugpiaq ("real people," better known as Alutiiq) for an Eyak village as Igya'aq' at the mouth of the Eyak River.
Around 1000 CE, the people of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Inuit, migrated from northern Alaska and either displaced or slaughtered the earlier Dorset inhabitants. [7] Thule art had a definite Alaskan influence, and included utilitarian objects such as combs, buttons, needle cases, cooking pots, ornate spears and harpoons.