Alaska Native in Traditional Times: A Cultural Profile Project

as of July 2011

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Mike Gaffney

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Cultural Profile Project in a Nutshell
Chapter 2 Sharpening Our Tools: Key Concepts
Chapter 3 Alaska Native Cultures – Think Pluralism!
Chapter 4 Alaska Environments and Native Adaptations
Chapter 5 The Six Parts of Culture
Chapter 6 Social Organization
Chapter 7 “Worldview” Deserves Special Attention
Chapter 8 Cultural products
Congratulations! But Don’t Stop Studying Now.
Bibliography

Native Peoples of Alaska

From: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
The small map insert to the right shows Iñupiaq to be a dialect of the Inuit language which ranges across the North American arctic rim into Greenland (light blue). The map insert also shows the spread of the Athabaskan Indian language (red) from Interior Alaska across Northwest Canada. Note that Navajo and Apache people in the Southwest and several tribes along the Northwest Coast also speak an Athabaskan language. Much more on this map and some of the historical questions it raises in Chapter 4.

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