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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 Tlingit clans of Southeast Alaska, in the United States, are one of the Indigenous cultures within Alaska. The Tlingit people also live in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada, and in the southern Yukon Territory. There are two main Tlingit lineages or moieties within Alaska, which are subdivided into a number of clans and houses.
Nature is a huge part of the lives of Alaska Natives and it has an influence on their story-telling. Alaska Natives tell stories where nature plays a main role. Nature is a great influence in the story-telling because native people have respect for it. The seasons play a large role in Alaska Native storytelling. When the events in a story ...
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.
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.
The Oakland Tribune review also noted Wharton's claim that the Alaska Gold Rushes, as well as the earlier Klondike Gold Rush, were the "end of an era of independent individualism". [ 1 ] In a 1992 review of Wharton's later book, They Don't Speak Russian in Sitka , Jo McMeen of the Huntingdon Daily News described it as much less "stimulating ...
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 ...
Nelson spent many years living in Interior Alaska with indigenous people, reflected through his work. [3] His work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, the relationships between people and nature. [4] He was the host to a public radio series called Encounters aired nationally. [5]