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Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Russian Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures. They are often defined by their ...
This list of Alaska Native tribal entities names the federally recognized tribes in the state of Alaska. 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 ...
The Alaskan Athabascan culture is an inland creek and river fishing (also coastal fishing by only Dena'ina of Cook Inlet) and hunter-gatherer culture. The Alaskan Athabascans have a matrilineal system in which children belong to the mother's clan, with the exception of the Yupikized Athabaskans (Holikachuk and Deg Hit'an).
Tlingit has an estimated 200 to 400 native speakers in the United States and 100 speakers in Canada. [6] The speakers are bilingual or near-bilingual in English. Tribes, institutions, and linguists are expending extensive effort into revitalization programs in Southeast Alaska to revive and preserve the Tlingit language and its culture.
Alaska – from the Aleut phrase alaxsxaq, meaning "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed"). [ 3 ] Arizona – disputed origin; likely from the O'odham phrase ali ṣona-g , meaning "having a little spring".
Alaska – specific. The following are listed here and not as subcategories because the geographic reach of these peoples normally extends beyond Alaska, typically into Canada. Category:Gwich'in people; Category:Haida people. Category:Haida artists; Category:Tlingit people; Category:Tsimshian people
Alaska Native people (7 C, 32 P) E. Eyak (4 P) N. Native American history of Alaska (6 C, 60 P) Y. Yupik peoples (5 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Native Americans in ...
The Federal Register 70(226) dated Nov. 25, 2005, which contains the most recent listing of federally recognized tribes in the Lower 48 & in Alaska heads its Alaska listing as "Native Entities Within the State of Alaska Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs." Thus, it uses neither "Alaska ...