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These vintage photos show what Alaska looked like before it became part of the United States. Late 1800s: This is the town of Unalaska, on the island of the same name. It is still the main ...
The Anglo-Saxons did not settle in an abandoned landscape on which they imposed new types of settlement and farming, as was once believed. By the late 4th century the English rural landscape was largely cleared and generally occupied by dispersed farms and hamlets, each surrounded by its own fields but often sharing other resources in common ...
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who became one of the most important cultural groups in Britain by the 5th century.
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 Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)
The English name for the island comes from Pitka Pavalof, a Creole of Russian-Native. In 1893, Pitka Pavalof and Sergei Gologoff Cherosky, Creoles of Russian-Native descent, found gold on Birch Creek in Interior Alaska. Learning of the discovery, prospectors jumped their claims and argued that the claims were invalid because the men were Natives.
Killisnoo Island is a small island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska, at It is located just off the central west coast of Admiralty Island , south of the city of Angoon . Killisnoo Island, an unincorporated area, is a settlement on the island.
Annette Islands Reserve, including surrounding islands, today is the only Indian Reserve in Alaska. In the 1970s, the Metlakatla did not accept the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and thus kept the Reserve Status, and maintained sovereign immunity. [7] "Annette Islands Reserve consists of 132,000 acres of land and water base.
Salmon drying. Alutiiq village, Old Harbor, Kodiak Island.Photographed by N. B. Miller, 1889. The Alutiiq (pronounced / ə ˈ l uː t ɪ k / ə-LOO-tik in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; [1] [2] [3] plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their ancestral name Sugpiaq (/ ˈ s ʊ ɡ ˌ b j ɑː k / SUUG-byahk or / ˈ s ʊ ɡ p i ˌ æ k / SUUG-pee-AK; plural often ...