Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty thousand years of continuous life in some of the most remote places on earth. These art forms are largely unseen and unknown outside the state of Alaska, due to distance from the art markets of the world.
AlaskaNative cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty...
AlaskaNatives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous...
Аляски) are AlaskaNative peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the interior of Alaska.[citation...
University-Medical District, adjacent to the AlaskaNative Medical Center, Alaska Pacific University and Providence Alaska Medical Center. UAA is divided into...
The AlaskaNative Arts Foundation (2002–present) is a non-profit organization formed to support the AlaskaNativeart community. Its mission is focused...
The AlaskaNative Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest...
commonly used nativeart as the motif of many of her early paintings. AlaskaNativeart Button blanket Chilkat weaving Coast Salish art Formline art Haida argillite...
The AlaskaNative Medical Center (ANMC) is a non-profit health center based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which provides medical services to 158...
offering college- and graduate-level art courses in 1975. In 1986, the Institute of American Indian and AlaskaNative Culture and Arts Development was congressionally...
people and enhance self-esteem among Native people. The AlaskaNative Arts Foundation promotes and markets Nativeart from all regions and cultures in the...
AlaskaNative storytelling has been passed down through generations by means of oral presentation. The stories tell life lessons or serve as lessons in...
NativeArt Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is an art school located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), near Fairbanks, Alaska....
University of Alaska Fairbanks and was the head of the AlaskaNativeArt studies program there. After retiring, he was asked to join the Department of Art at the...
instead. However, "Eskimo" is still considered acceptable among some AlaskaNatives of Yupik and Inupiaq (Inuit) heritage and is at times preferred over...
Museum is a large art, history, ethnography, ecology and science museum located in a modern building in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska. It is dedicated...
Shamanism among AlaskaNatives was particularly important as it served to construct their special connection to their land, and a kinship with the animals...
symbol of her nation's legal traditions. AlaskaNativeart Chilkat weaving Native American art Northwest Coast art Jensen, Doreen and Polly Sargent. Robes...
Indians from the contiguous United States and AlaskaNatives. The United States Census Bureau defines Native American as "all people indigenous to the United...
Inuit art from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland Baleen basket with whale tooth finial, by George Omnik (Iñupiaq, 1905–1978), Alaska; Honolulu Museum of Art (Hawaii...
now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by AlaskaNative groups. The name "Alaska" derives from...