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Little Diomede Island or Yesterday Island (Inupiaq: Iŋaliq, formerly known as Krusenstern Island, [a] [3] Russian: остров Крузенштерна, romanized: ostrov Kruzenshterna) is an inhabited island of Alaska. It is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the Bering Strait between the Alaskan mainland and Siberia.
The Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) was created in 1915. [30] Also in 1915, the Alaska Territorial legislature passed a law allowing Alaskan Natives the right to vote – but on the condition that they give up their cultural customs and traditions. [31] The Indian Citizenship Act, passed in 1924, gave all Native Americans United States ...
Diomede is the only settlement on Little Diomede Island. The population is 82 people, down from 115 at the 2010 census and 146 in 2000. Its native name Iŋaliq means "the other one" or "the one over there". [5] [6] It is also imprecisely spelled Inalik.
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 ...
In the Aleut language, they are known by the endonyms Unangan (eastern dialect) and Unangas (western dialect); both terms mean "people". [a] The Russian term "Aleut" was a general term used for both the native population of the Aleutian Islands and their neighbors to the east in the Kodiak Archipelago, who were also referred to as "Pacific Eskimos" or Sugpiat/Alutiit.
A tiny Alaskan island known as the "Galapagos of the North" with a population of just 350 is in a panic over a singular rat that may not even exist.
The King Island Native Community (Inupiaq: Ugiuvaŋmiut) (consisting of what was once approximately 200 Iñupiat at its peak [1]) is federally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a community of Alaska Natives. The Iñupiat, former inhabitants of King Island, called themselves Aseuluk, 'people of the sea', or Ugiuvaŋmiut, 'people of ...
This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States . [A] [ 1 ]