When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

Not Just a Pretty Face: Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures.

Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1990.

Category: Alaska Native ethnic groups

Category: Native American history of Alaska

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

The settlement extinguished Alaska Native claims to the land by transferring titles to twelve Alaska Native regional corporations and over 200 local village corporations.

* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.

* The Alaska Native Allotment Act was revoked and as yet unborn Native children were excluded.

Regional corporations established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

: Main article at: Alaska Native Regional Corporations

* Bethel Native Corporation, the village corporation for Bethel, Alaska

* Arthur Lazarus, Jr. & W. Richard West, Jr., The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: A Flawed Victory, Law & Contemp.

The term " Haida Nation " refers both to the people as a whole and also to their government on Canadian territory, the Council of the Haida Nation ; the government for those in the United States is the Central Council Tlingit Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

Among some Alaska Natives, the i ' noGo tied (" house of spirits ") refers to a luck and protection amulet made from blubber encased in seal fur.

Generally fog refers to a cloud composed of liquid water ( the term ice fog usually refers to a fog that formed as liquid water and then froze, and frequently seems to occur in valleys with airborne pollution such as Fairbanks, Alaska, while diamond dust forms directly as ice ).

A ' Sourdough ' is also a nickname used in the North ( Yukon / Alaska ) for someone having spent an entire winter north of the Arctic Circle and refers to their tradition of protecting their Sourdough during the coldest months by keeping it close to their body.

Its name refers to Dog Mushing, long popular in Alaska.

The locals generally refer to it simply as ' Dawson ', but the tourist industry generally refers to it as ' Dawson City ' ( partly to differentiate it from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, which is at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway ).

: This article refers to the pass between Alaska and British Columbia.

The Iditarod Trail, also known historically as the Seward-to-Nome Mail Trail, refers to a thousand-plus mile ( 1, 600 km ) historic and contemporary trail system in the US state of Alaska.

Alaska Route 10 refers to two unconnected highways in the U. S. state of Alaska:

Frequent targets include Bill O ' Reilly, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin ( whom Miller refers to as " Caribou Barbie ", due to her status as the former governor of Alaska and ex-beauty queen ), Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage.

The name Przystanek Woodstock-" Woodstock Station " refers to peace and friendship symbolized by the Woodstock Festival and the TV series Northern Exposure, aired as Przystanek Alaska ( Alaska Station ), immensely popular in Poland at that time.

By 1954 In the State of the Union address, Eisenhower refers to Statehood for Hawaii ( then a Republican territory ) but not Alaska ( then a Democratic territory ).

Aleut people () are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

Eskimos ( or Esquimaux ) or Inuit – Yupik ( for Alaska: Inupiat – Yupik ) peoples are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia ( Russia ), across Alaska ( United States ), Canada, and Greenland.

The Yupik are indigenous or aboriginal peoples who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River ( Central Alaskan Yup ' ik ), in southern Alaska ( the Alutiiq ) and along the eastern coast of Chukotka in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska ( the Siberian Yupik ).

The baidarka, developed by indigenous cultures in Alaska, was also made in double or triple cockpit designs, for hunting and transporting passengers or goods.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

The Yupik are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East.

The Big Dipper is an asterism in the constellation Ursa Major which symbolizes a bear, an animal indigenous to Alaska.

During his time with the land office, he traveled extensively throughout the territory, gaining an intimate knowledge of the geography and becoming acquainted with both the white and indigenous populations of Alaska.

Alaska Natives, indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and California indigenous peoples eventually descended from the Paleo-Indians.

Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas.

While on holiday in Alaska with her sister Alice in 1907, Carr again came into contact with indigenous peoples in remote villages and determined to use her art to document the sculptural and artistic legacy of the aboriginal people she encountered there.

These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan ( Apachean ) language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan speakers of Alaska and western Canada.

Eyak is an extinct Na-Dené language historically spoken by the Eyak people, indigenous to south-central Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River.

These included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

The Eyak are an indigenous group traditionally located on the Copper River Delta and near the town of Cordova, Alaska.

The Maritime Fur Trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska.

Western Redcedar has an extensive history of use by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from Oregon to southeast Alaska.

Siberian Yupiks, or Yuits, are indigenous people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

In February 2008 a proposal relating Na-Dené ( excluding Haida ), one of the major language families of indigenous peoples in North America, to the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia was published and well received by a number of linguists at the Dene-Yeniseic Symposium held in 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Retroflex consonants are largely absent from indigenous languages of the Americas with the exception of the extreme south of South America, an area in Southwestern US as in Hopi and Papago, and in Alaska and the Yukon Territory as in the Athabaskan languages Gwichʼin and Hän.

Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples of Alaska: Inupiaq, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.