Alaska Culture Analysis

The family life of Native Americans today is defined as a nuclear family. This consists of the mother, father, and offspring. The parents are the leaders of the household and work together in making all major decisions. This leaves both the mother and father equally in charge especially when it comes to their offspring. As the child is growing up the parents take primary responsibility in directing their child’s life. When they become a young adult they are presumed to become independent and are expected to leave home. Overall Native American families are nuclear, with both parents having equal input in decisions as well as with regard to their children.

Starcasm shared that Alaskan Bush People has been considered fake by some people because of their legal troubles. The show says that the Brown family lives in the Alaskan bush and don't see people for up to six to nine months at a time. They are actually in legal trouble for allegedly not living in Alaska all of the time, but still getting money for being residents of Alaska.

There can be a lot of tension between the child and the parent but that is mostly attributed to the fact that the child is trying to become more independent as they grow up. Usually both parents will produce an income for the family as well as perform household duties such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children. The Inuit culture however has a much greater focus on the family unit. Traditionally, there was a division of labor between the males and females. The men would go out and hunt or fish, while the women took care of the home, children, and food preparation.

The Heidi Inuit and Sioux are very interesting tribes they have many similarities and differences. A fun fact is that dozens of native nations lived on the Great Plains, including the Sioux Indians, also known as the Lakota and Dakota. The name Sioux means "little snakes". A fun fact for the innate would be As of 2012, 89 percent of the population of Greenland was Inuit. This means that there are an estimated 51,349 Inuit people living in this country, and the most of them live in the southwestern corner. there are three major Inuit groups: Inughuit, Tuniit and Kalaallit. About 10 percent of the Inuit people live in close regions and each group speaks its own language. Now we can end with a Haida

Do you know why October 18th, 1867 is an important date for Alaska? Do you know how much the United States bought the Alaskan Territory from Russia? Does it fascinate you to know how much money the United States paid per acre? Well although Alaska has a very short history compared to the rest of the contiguous United States, it has a very interesting history. The reason for that is because it was one of the very last states brought into the Union and recognized as “one of their own”. As most of people know, Alaska can be a really cold and brutal place to live. Depending on where you live in Alaska, the climate can differentiate from about 8°F - 58°F. All around Alaska, there are many points of interest. You will discover lots of important

This excerpt talks about the importance of glaciers in the perspective of Aboriginal Alaskans through their use of descriptive words, oral traditions, indigenous knowledge, as well as their past interactions with European settlers concerning the differences between how each side perceives nature. Where the aboriginal people think nature is an essential part of human life, the Europeans see it as a different entity, separated from humans. This difference, combined with the Little Ice Age which happened at the same time, led to “dramatic social upheaval”, readjustments and realignments of the original people, and the complication of new European migrants on the lives of the aborigines. This division that differentiates between nature and culture usually brings up debates about environmentalism,

The Inuit people live in multi-family bands, typically about 25-50 people. Laird, B. & Nowak,

So who inhabits Alaska? While the majority of people who live in Alaska are Caucasian, natives constitute about 15 %. Inuit is the name given to indigenous people who live in Alaska. Most of these people in Alaska live in the Seward Peninsula and the Northern Slope of Alaska. Traditionally, the Inuit have been hunters and fishers. Today they still hunt whale, walrus, caribou, seal and polar bears. They use the animals for food, clothing and shelter. The Inuit's more modern culture includes Arctic Winter games, storytelling, dancing and mythology, links to the past. They are very much focused on the arts and the younger people struggle to deal with the traditions of the past and modern

Tlingit people live on islands on costal lands of southern Alaska. During the summer Tlingit people leave their homes during the summer to take advantage of hunting fish. There houses are large enough for several families. Tlingit people held ceremonies called potlaches. Were they would live is next to a place to fish.

Mendenhall Glacier is a big part of the Alaskan culture. Denali is a big part as well is a huge nation park. The capital city for Alaska is Juneau.

Inuit people lived in Canada, Alaska, Greenland and siberia. Their Traditional housings are Snow House, Snowdrifts and igloos. The inuit languages were Inuktitut, Inupiaq and Kalaallisut.

Alaska has a rich history involving many countries. Before the Europeans reached the Alaskan shores, the early settlers were believed to come from the land bridge connected to Asia. Alaska is in fact named after “Alyeska”, the name the Aleut people called it (meaning “The Great Land”). The Alaskan natives, the Aleuts, Yup'ik and Inupiat tribes were in the west and north. The Athabascan were in the center of Alaska, and the Tlingit and Haida Tribes were in the southeast. In order to survive, the tribes would hunt and harvest during the late summer and spring. In the winter, the natives would carve, weave clothes, dance and tell stories. These tribes did not live in igloos, except when they were traveling during an emergency. The Aleut tribes lived in barabaras, a house partly built underground. They used whale ribs or driftwood logs for their door frame. The Athabascans lived in portable tepees made out of caribou skin. The Tlingit and Haida tribes lived in wood houses that have several rooms. These tribes lived in peace until the Europeans came.

Over this semester, we learned so much about the different Alaska Native cultures of Alaska. There have been so many changes since early contacts throughout Alaska. We Alaska Natives have

Alaska is as dangerous as how beautiful it is. The geography of Alaska is difficult to explore and settle because of the cold, difficult to find food, and of the long travels by foot. Someone would have to be really skilled to survive this. Alaska looks beautiful in the out side, but in the inside, its deadly.

While some women who received no prenatal care had normal, uncomplicated births, others did not. Most of the women who did not receive adequate prenatal care gave birth to an underweight and underdeveloped infant. Among the benefits of early, comprehensive prenatal care are decreased risk of preterm deliveries and low birth weight (LBW)-both major predictors of infant morbidity and mortality. (Dixon, Cobb, Clarke, 2000). Preterm deliveries, deliveries prior to 37 weeks of gestation, have risen. Since the studies in 1987, which showed the rate of preterm deliveries as 6.9% of births, the 1997 rate shows an increase to 7.5%. Low birth weight, defined as an infant weighing less than 2500 grams (5lbs. 5oz) is often preceded by preterm delivery. Low