Native Alaskan


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Synonyms for Native Alaskan

a member or descendant of any of the aboriginal peoples of Alaska

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* Black, Latino, Native American, and Native Alaskan students are three times more likely to attend schools with higher concentrations of first year teachers.
My intention is not to undermine the diocese's concern to protect both Native Alaskan culture and the surrounding environment.
During WWII, ordinary Native Alaskan families of the Aleutian Islands were removed from their homes and taken to forced internment in camps in southeastern Alaska, ostensibly to protect them from the Japanese, but in reality because the US did not want the world to know that the Japanese had invaded parts of Alaska.
Flores is a cellist, singer- songwriter and native Alaskan taking a year off from school and working as a dog handler in Fairbanks for Iditarod champion Lane Mackey.
Most of the book focuses on Native American and Native Alaskan people and cultures.
Over the last ten years, Wells Fargo has invested $36.7 million in 17 American Indian community projects in housing and economic development, and has made 224 community development loans totaling $781 million to Native Alaskan, tribal nations and Native American community organizations.
Also called Denali, a name taken from a native Alaskan language meaning "The Great One", the mountain is the highest in Alaska and North America.
"It protects the calving area of the Western Arctic caribou herd and by doing so the caribou have a chance to return to their calving and insect relief grounds," explains Roy Ashenfelter, a native Alaskan and chair of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group--an interagency team that studies and works with the herd.
Burch definitely sticks his neck out with some provocative hypotheses: that fluctuation and emigration of native Alaskan populations vary according to caribou abundance; that novel historical caribou herds with unfamiliar calving grounds formerly existed; and that humans and wolves are the major drivers of caribou numbers and distribution.
Recycling of spirit forms, shamanic healing, communal festivals, and respect for all living things in places where activities are marked by the passing of the moon are part of Native Alaskan traditions, where the Tsimshian expression "Lootm Txa'nii Gyet" translates as "We respect all people."
1408) would reopen the ANCSA agreement, allowing Sealaska Corporation, a native Alaskan company, to select and receive titles to publicly owned lands--administered by the U.S.
BOSTON -- A small but concerning recent surge in cases of invasive infection with Haemophilus influenzae serotype a among Native Alaskan children appears to be an "'emerging" infection, reported epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
and the effect it had on the Native Alaskan communities.
This March 1989 accident affected 1,200 miles of coastline and 15 Native Alaskan communities in Prince William Sound, Alaska (Davis, 2010).
MANHATTAN-Western culture's grappling with homosexuality and alternate genders isn't strictly limited to the United States, but is also prevalent in many Native American and native Alaskan groups-or native nations.
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