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A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty by Douglas K. Mertz - http://www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm
Native legal claims to the sovereign right to control their own communities and their own tribal members.

Alaska Native Knowledge Network - http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/
Designed to serve as a resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.

Alaska Native Language Center - http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/
Center for the study of Eskimo and Northern Athabaskan languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. ANLC works to document and promote the twenty Native languages of Alaska.

Alaska Native Villages - http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/ak/alaska.html
Features information and maps on the tribes, development corporations, and regionally-organized links.

Alaska Native/Native American Bibliography - http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm
Present day circumstances of Alaska Native societies as a part of the social, historical, and political fabric of the United States.

Alaska Natives Online - http://cooday8.tripod.com/alaska.htm
Tlingit and Haida resource page with information on current events, culture, and history.

Always Getting Ready - http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/archives/eskimo/
Describes the Yup'ik Eskimo and their land with James H. Barker photographs of their annual subsistence cycle.

An Alutiiq Dance - http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/index.html
Each fall, after the end of salmon fishing and the berry harvest, the Alutiiq people of southern coastal Alaska held a series of festivals and spiritual ceremonies. Description of a dance and photos of art.

ANILCA - Title 8 - http://www.r7.fws.gov/asm/anilca/title08.html
§801. The Congress finds and declares that -- (1) the continuation of the opportunity for subsistence uses by rural residents of Alaska, including both Natives and non-Natives, on the public lands and by Alaska Natives on Native lands is essential to Native physical, economic, traditional, and cultural existence and to non-Native physical, economic, traditional, and social existence;

ChiefEzi.Net - http://www.chiefezi.net/
Provides information for and about the history and culture as pertaining primarily to the Dena'ina of upper Cook Inlet. features editorial opinions, news archive, memorials, and photos.

Dig Afognak Archaeological Expedition - http://afognak.org/dig.php
A participatory archaeological field camp in Alaska on Afognak Island. Learn about the prehistoric and historic lifeways of the Alutiiq people and the landscape that shaped their lives and culture.

Early Prehistory of Alaska - http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/early.htm
A region so large (one fifth the size of the continental United States), and diverse ecologically, physiologically, and culturally that any synthesis must be skeletal in nature. General description of the broad units of the cultural chronology of the area.

Heartbeat Alaska - http://www.jeaniegreene.com/
Anchorage weekly television show hosted by Jeanie Greene features native artwork, videos, articles, message forum, and chatrooms.

Huna Heritage Foundation - http://www.hunaheritage.org/
To perpetuate Huna culture and promote education for present and future generations of Huna People.

Language Map and Index - http://www.alaskool.org/language/languageindex.htm#
Map listing the different areas of Alaskan Native languages.

Native American Management Services, Inc. - http://www.anaalaska.org/
Provides grant assistance. A contractor for the Administration for Native Americans, which promotes social and economic self-sufficiency for Native Americans.

Our Way of Making Prayers - http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Yupik/
Yup'ik masks of the Agayuliyararput Exhibit, dance and ceremony, shamans, historical perspective, common themes, lessons, ecology, habitat, and glossary, and teacher's curriculum guide.

Second "We the People" Alaska Native March - http://camera.touchngo.com/March99/March.htm
March for recognition of native rights. Photos from May 5, 1999, in Anchorage.

Smithsonian Institution - Alaska Native Collections - http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=93
Mask from the lower Yukon River of Alaska, represents one way that Alaskan native peoples honor the animals on which they depend.

The Arctic Studies Center - http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/
Native people, scholars, and museum associates work together on a broad range of research. Includes art and cultural history.

The Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada - http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/ANWR/anwrgwichin.html
The people of the caribou occupy the southern slopes of the Brooks Range, brief history, photo, map, traditional management practices, and international caribou agreement.

The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures - http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/s1a.html
Dr. Vyacheslav Ivanov, one of the foremost linguists of our day, reviews and evaluates the Alaskan Russian Church Archives.

To Philly, From Alaska w/love - http://tunt.blogspot.com/
Daily life from inside the a traditional Native Alaskan Eskimo village. Subsistence hunting remains fundamental to survival.

Tradition and Transcendance in Russian America - http://www.brynmawr.edu/archaeology/guesswho/wdhsbyr.html
(Re)constructing identity in the ancient world. An archaeological approach to identity in colonial contexts. Scholars have argued that the Alutiiq of the Kodiak archipelago have been present as a north Pacific indigenous culture for the last 7,000 years.

William J. Fisher Collection - http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/fisher/collect.html
Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People. The exhibition is being researched and planned at the Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage, in partnership with the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak.

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