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| | Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It is bordered by Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north. | | | His position on the House Transportation Committee allowed him to parlay some $450 million to two bridge projects in Alaska, for which he gained national notoriety following the devastation in the State of Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina and his insistence that those monies not be returned to aide in rebuilding the Gulf Coast. | | | After an early flirtatious period with liberal politics, the political climate of Alaska changed quickly once oil was discovered and Federal government 'dependence' was seen as 'meddling' in local affairs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska
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| | The Alaska Natives (3) |
| | The brief interlude of creating reservations according to the Alaska Reorganization Act of 1936 was merely an administrative attempt to settle Alaska Native claims and, because of the opposition it engendered, was not fully applied to all Alaska Natives. | | | Yet the fact remains that Alaska Natives in the remote villages rely on the financial support of the state and federal governments. | | | In fact, villages all over Alaska began filing claims with the US Department of the Interior. |
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http://www.alaskool.org/projects/native_gov/ARTICLES/KORSMO/PolarPpls.htm
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| | A Primer on Alaska Native Sovereignty, by Douglas K. Mertz |
| | Native Alaskans already had a statutory preference for use of some wildlife resources. | | | And a number of villages began restricting the importation of drugs and alcohol, despite claims that such measures were illegal. | | | The Department of the Interior has been immobilized in any attempt to find a way out of the confusion by its own internal conflicts. |
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http://www.alaska.net/~dkmertz/natlaw.htm
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| | ICC - American Indians/Alaska Natives & Cancer |
| | National Interview Survey data show that adult smoking among American Indians and Alaska Natives is the highest (40%) of the five racial and ethnic groups. | | | Racial misclassification of Native Americans in a surveillance, epidemiology and end results cancer registry. | | | Cancer rates which were previously reported to be lower in American Indian and Alaska Natives have been shown to be increasing in the past twenty years. |
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http://iccnetwork.org/cancerfacts/cfs2.htm
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| | News > Alaska Natives confront debates over legal status |
| | Heather Kendall-Miller, a Native American Rights Fund (NARF) attorney who works in Alaska, said in an interview that Stevens was attacking the sovereignty of the state's indigenous population. | | | Some on the radio program, while critical of his remarks, still said they support attempts to make the system more accountable and fair, perhaps by establishing a minimum on the number of members a tribe must have for federal status. | | | In response, Native leaders set up a group to study the issues Stevens raised, and earlier this year, they presented his staff with a report that they hoped would spell an and to the idea. |
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http://www.indianz.com/News/archives/002107.asp
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| | Tlingit National Anthem, Alaska Natives and Native Americans online |
| | Shinnecock land claim draws wide press, but most miss point | | | Index of Native American Resources on the Internet | | | Fear of a Red Planet - Welcome to the semi-official Paul Chaat Smith web site (Comanche author and cultural critic). |
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http://cooday8.tripod.com/alaska.htm
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| | Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act |
| | Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act: History and Analysis - Richard Jones | | | Letters to Howard: An Interpretation of the Alaska Native Land Claims - Fred Bigjim and James Ito-Adler | | | Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971 |
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http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Landclaims
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| | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act |
| | A final note: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act is a very complex document that has inspired people over the last three decades to write thousands of pages about it. | | | But what’s really important to keep in mind when discussing ANCSA is that it is a document that was developed for a group of human beings who had a very real claim to their ancestral home in Alaska. | | | "Native" was defined as a citizen of the United States with one-fourth degree or more Indian, Aleut or Eskimo ancestry, born on or before December 18, 1971, including Natives who had been adopted by one or more non-Native parents. |
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http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa/aktraditions/ancsa.html
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| | Welcome to SLED :: FAQ Alaska |
| | First Alaska Native land claims suit, filed by Tlingit and Haida people, introduced in U.S. Court of Claims. | | | Native voting rights established through a court case. | | | U.S. Court of Claims issues judgement favoring Tlingit and Haida claims to Southeast Alaska lands. |
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http://sled.alaska.edu/akfaq/akchron.html
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| | Diabetes Monitor - diabetes in american indians and alaska natives |
| | This increase reflects an actual rise in the number of people who identify themselves as part of this group, as well as improvements in counting methodology. | | | Diabetic retinopathy is a deterioration of the blood vessels in the eye caused by high blood glucose levels. | | | Data on non-Hispanic whites are from the 1995 National Health Interview Survey. |
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http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/b43.htm
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| | Surveillance for Health Behaviors of American Indians and Alaska Natives Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor ... |
| | If the interviewer determines that the respondent is not proficient in the available languages, the interviewer ends the call and notes language barrier as the reason for not completing the interview. | | | Among AI/ANs, respondents in Alaska were less likely to report having been told that they had diabetes than respondents in the other four regions (Table 3) (Figure 3). | | | AI/AN women were more likely to report having had their last Pap test >3 years ago than women of other racial/ethnic groups (21.3% versus 15.3%). |
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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5207a1.htm
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| | Alaska |
| | The Gold Rush of 1898 resulted in a mass influx of more than 30,000 people. | | | Alaska, University of - Alaska, University of, at Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau; land-grant and state supported;... | | | The former live in the north and northwest parts of Alaska and speak Inupiaq, while the latter live in the south and southwest and speak Yupik. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0108178.html
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| | Alaska Natives and Native Organizations |
| | 4) Society of Friends, Alaska Quaker Documents (1892-1897). | | | Andrew Hope (1896-1968) was one of the organizers of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood; President of the Brotherhood for several terms; and president of the Tlingit-Haida Association (1940-1966). | | | The collection consists of files relating to Alaskan Native organizations in which he was involved as well as to his mother and the Jesse Lee Home. |
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http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/archives/ResHighlights/4AKNAT2.html
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| | American Indians and Alaska Natives: Multimedia |
| | This Web page offers the latest news media tools available for immediate use. | | | Nearly one-third of the American Indian and Alaska native population is under the age of 18. | | | For more information on this and other videos about the Census Bureau and the American Indian and Alaska native community, call (301) 763-3011 or e-mail . |
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http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/multimedia/aian.html
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| | Alaska Natives & subsistence |
| | (Alaska)]) and the Native American Rights Fund's involvement in it. | | | In 1995 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Katie John's claim that the federal government was obligated to extend ANILCA's subsistence protections to fishing activities in federally reserved waters in Alaska. | | | Therefore the federal government assumed management of subsistence fisheries in 60 percent of Alaska waters in October 1999. |
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http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/rlinks/natives/ak_subsistence.html
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| | Alaska Federation of Natives |
| | The Alaska Marketplace is a collaborative project launched by the Denali Commission, the State of Alaska and AFN, the Alaska Marketplace is modeled after the World Bank’s Development Marketplace. | | | AFN is governed by a 37-member Board, which is elected by its membership at the annual convention held each October. | | | The mission of AFN is to enhance and promote the cultural, economic and political voice of the entire Alaska Native community. |
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http://www.nativefederation.org
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| | American Indians and alcoholism, tobacco use, alcohol statistics at SAMHSA's NCADI |
| | Still, Native American resilience has been as legendary as its near genocidal history. | | | The alcohol abuse problem among American Indians/Alaska Natives appears to be concentrated in the young and the so-called “heavy drinkers” over 26. | | | Much of this is due to excessive use of marijuana; Native American youth use of so-called "hard" drugs other than marijuana has actually declined 20 percent in that period. |
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http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/prevalert/v5/10.aspx
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| | Alaska Office of Economic Development |
| | While it is clear from archeology and Native history that people have lived in parts of Alaska for 10,000 years, there is some evidence that colonization first took place many thousands of years earlier. | | | The smallest group of Alaska Natives, the Aleuts, made their living from the rich sea that surrounded their home on the Aleutian Islands. | | | The following brief summaries about Alaska Native cultures are written in the past tense only because they refer specifically to life prior to contact with Russians and people of European descent; this should not suggest, however, that the content is necessarily outdated. |
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http://www.dced.state.ak.us/oed/student_info/learn/nativeculture.htm
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| | Fact Sheets > Alphabetical List > American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians |
| | The National Resource Center on Native American Aging, University of North Dakota is governed by a culturally sensitive staff and national steering committee. | | | The AoA works through the national aging network of 56 State Units on Aging, 655 Area Agencies on Aging, 236 Tribal and Native organizations representing 300 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal organizations, and two organizations serving Native Hawaiians, plus thousands of service providers, adult care centers, caregivers, and volunteers. | | | Working in close partnership with its sister agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the AoA is the official Federal agency dedicated to policy development, planning and the delivery of supportive home and community-based services to older persons and their caregivers. |
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http://www.aoa.gov/press/fact/alpha/fact_ain.asp
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| | American Indians and Alaska Natives in Substance Abuse Treatment: 1999 |
| | This report is limited to facilities receiving State funds (including Federal Block Grant funds). | | | American Indian/Alaska Native rates were lower than the U.S. rate in seven States; data were incomplete for five States. | | | SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States. |
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http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k2/AmIndianTX/AmIndianTX.htm
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| | Alaska's Native Cultures |
| | Alaska's Native people are divided into eleven distinct cultures, speaking twenty different languages. | | | In order to the tell the stories of this diverse population, the Alaska Native Heritage Center is organized based on five cultural groupings, which draw upon cultural similarities or geographic proximity: | | | Many Alaska Natives have retained their customs, language, hunting and fishing practices and ways of living since "the creation times." |
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http://www.alaskanative.net/2.asp
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| | Alaska Native Heritage Center |
| | The encounter is designed to enhance self-esteem among Native people and to encourage cross-cultural exchanges among all people. | | | The Alaska Native Heritage Center is an exciting place where all people can come to expand their understanding of Alaska's first people. | | | The Alaska Native Heritage Center is conducting a Needs Assessment Survey and we need information and comments from Alaska Native Artists and Culture Bearers. |
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http://alaskanative.net
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| | Welcome to SLED :: FAQ Alaska |
| | Is marijuana still legal in the state of Alaska? | | | My Uncle Joe had a claim near Nome. | | | Federal Judges in Alaska Since Statehood (2 Kb) |
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http://sled.alaska.edu/akfaq/akfaqindex.html
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| | U.S. Geological Survey Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives - General Coordination and Policy ... |
| | U.S. Geological Survey Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives | | | Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) and the USGS, through its support of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), are conducting quarterly satellite broadcasts for all participating Tribal Colleges and Universities from SIPI. | | | The USGS, Arizona District, participated in the Federal-Tribal Southwest Water Resources Conference during April 2000, which was sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation's Native American Affairs Office. |
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http://www.usgs.gov/indian/00report/policy.html
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| | Center for Alaska Native Health Research |
| | This project has been and is being developed in partnership with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC). | | | was established through a five-year grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. | | | This page was last modified July 10, 2003 |
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http://www.alaska.edu/canhr
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| | Alaska Native Knowledge Network |
| | These resources are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and administered through the Alaska Federation of Natives under Grant. | | | The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educational institution and is a part of the University of Alaska system. | | | Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. |
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http://www.ankn.uaf.edu
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| | Diabetes in American Indians and Alaska Natives |
| | The Diabetes Epidemic Among American Indians and Alaska Natives | | | A press release from the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a joint program of the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | | | A fact sheet about American Indians and Alaska Natives with diabetes. |
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http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/americanindian
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