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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.
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses Planning Regions and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
Map of Alaska highlighting Northwest Arctic Borough The Nome Census Area has the following cities Brevig Mission ( Sitaisaq, Sinauraq ), Diomede ( Iŋalik ), Golovin ( Siŋik ), Koyuk ( Kuuyuk ), Nome ( Siqnazuaq, Sitŋasuaq ), Shaktoolik ( Saqtuliq ), Shishmaref ( Qigiqtaq ), Teller ( Tala, Iġaluŋniaġvik ), Wales ( Kiŋigin ), White ...
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Alaska whose names are derived from Native American languages.
Populations are the total census counts and include non-Native American people as well, sometimes making up a majority of the residents. The total population of all of them is 1,043,762. [citation needed] A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental United States
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 [ 1 ] and the Canadian Museum of History . [ 2 ]
Natchez, Louisiana – present-day village in Natchitoches Parish; after the Natchez people; Opelousas – for the native Appalousa people who formerly occupied the area; Ponchatoula is a name signifying "falling hair" or "hanging hair" or "flowing hair" from the Choctaw Pashi "hair" and itula or itola "to fall" or "to hang" or "flowing".
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska. There are approximately 400 listed sites in Alaska. Each of the state's 30 boroughs and census areas has at least two listings on the National Register, except for the Kusilvak Census Area, which has none.