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At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from the Aleut word Alaxsxaq (also spelled Alyeska), meaning "mainland" (literally, "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed"). [1] The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867.
The Yupʼik are unique among native peoples of the Americas in that they name children after the most recent person in the community to have died. The kuspuk (qaspeq) is a traditional Yupʼik garment worn by both genders. In Alaska, it is worn in both casual and formal settings. The seal-oil lamp (naniq) was an important piece of furniture. [16]
The name of the site, Upward Sun River, is a direct translation of the Middle Tanana name for the site, Xaasaa Na’. [8] The Middle Tanana name was recorded from the mother of a mother-daughter pair, two of the last remaining speakers of Middle Tanana, during an interview in the 1960s.
People from pre-statehood Alaska (2 C, 40 P) This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, at 23:48 (UTC). Text ... This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, ...
Grigory Shelikhov was a founder of the predecessor of the Russian-American Company. Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov (Григорий Иванович Шелихов in Russian) (1747, Rylsk, Belgorod Governorate – July 20, 1795 (July 31, 1795 New Style)) was a Russian seafarer, merchant, and fur trader who established a permanent settlement in Alaska.
The Swan Point Archeological Site is located in eastern central Alaska, in the Tanana River watershed. It is one of a collection of sites in the area that have yielded the oldest evidence of human habitation in the state, in addition to megafauna no longer found in Alaska, such as wapiti (elk), bison, and woolly mammoth.
20th-century people from Alaska (2 C) 21st-century people from Alaska (1 C) P. Alaska politicians by century (4 C) ... This page was last edited on 16 January 2024, ...
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 ...
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