Alaskan Natives
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Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples of the Americas native to the state of Alaska within the United States. They include Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, and several Native American peoples, including Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabaskan peoples.
History
In 1912 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded.
In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and financial claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the status of the Canadian Inuit and First Nations, which are recognized as distinct peoples, Alaska Natives are in some respects treated separately from Native Americans in the United States.
Cultures
Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native cultures. Within each culture are many different tribes.
- Athabascan
- Eyak
- Haida
- Tlingit
- Tsimshian
- Eskimo
- Aleut (in their own language they refer to themselves as Unangan)
