Mendenhall Glacier: Alaskan Culture

The history of the Native Americans after the arrival of the Europeans is a history of wars, treaties and agreements, and broken treaties and broken agreements. As late as 1994 the governing bodies of tribal communities have signed treaties and agreements with the U.S. (Niles, 1996). As recently as 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court almost overturned treaty rights of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.

Transcendent means beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience. I think people would go to the Alaskan wilderness to find a deeper meaning in their life because they want to transcend into another stage in their life. The wilderness can be a great place to do that because it is isolated from society. Also you are one on one with nature and the wild is your playground. Noone is there to stop you or hold you back. All your thoughts are able to manifest freely. To reach that transcendent state requires sacrifices. Such as moving from society or your family. These things are needed because you are trying to dig deep inside yourself and while you do that you can’t be worried about the things around you. All distractions

The Inuit people live at a unique location. They live in the far North and into Canada. “There is a Canadian village, named Grise Fjord, just 500 miles from the North Pole” (Sontella 7). The Inuit people

The identity of Alaskan Natives and Native Americans and the ability to delineate tribal affiliation has been a subject of argument for many years. The demands of federal programs determine the blood volume required to be Native. As federal programs increase and decrease so does the blood volume required to obtain these benefits. Blood quantum is the display of colonialism and is gradually eroding and eradicating the roots of indigenous people and sets a precedence that a person’s blood relates to their cultural orientation and identity. “American Indians and non-Indians have defined Indian identity through law, biology, and culture. All three overlap in specific ways, but more significantly, all have ties to outdated blood quantum

All of the groups that I studied are from all over Canada. All of the tribes are from mostly Northern Canada.I have been studying how the Inuit, Haida, and the Sioux are alike and how they are different.

Matthew Jeremiah Brown, star of Discovery’s “The Alaskan Bush People” was arrested for DUI and leaving the scene of the accident and Radar Online, Dec. 3, 2015, has a copy of the police report. Apparently, Matt, 33, went to Juneau and spent his night partying and having sex with an unidentified female. Unfortunately, the young man got hungry, so he drove to Wal-Mart for chips and that’s when he hit a motorcycle in the parking lot and left the scene.

Long, long ago in the Polar Native Tribe where it was so cold you go freeze to death lived a little girl named Devika which meant “little goddess”. Devika lived with her father Azad because her mother had died when she gave birth due to difficulties and sickness. After a few years passed nothing was really back to the way it was. They both had to be more independent to help themselves get through the days. Both Devika and her father started to separate and spend less time with each other. Devika was really affected by this issue and really wished she could do something to find a way to make things go back to the way they were.

The Colonial Americans came to the New World in search of gold, silver, land, better opportunities, and most importantly they desired religious freedom. Colonial Americans weren’t the only people practicing religion. Even before the exploration of America, the Native Americans who were already residents of the land had begun in their own religious practices, traditions, and creating their own cultures. In all religious beliefs there is a divine creator or creators and we know this through studying the writings of different social groups. The creators in each religion may have different characteristics, roles, and relationships with humankind, but they all play an essential role in shaping the culture and beliefs of a person or a whole society.

It keeps getting worse for the “Alaskan Bush People” as fakery is exposed on their so-called reality show and once again, it is the father figure, Billy Brown. According to Radar Online, Dec. 9, 2015, Billy was arrested in Texas for stealing and his wife was by his side.

The Inuit the Sioux and the Haida have a lot in common and a lot of things that are different. For example, how they do their art work, what tools and how they dress. I would like to learn more about what is their state animal, what is their state bird ,and some more about their religions.

European explorers typically viewed Native Americans and Inuit (formerly called “Eskimo”) peoples as uncivilized savages who could be ignored, treated as curiosities, or manipulated to meet the goals of businessmen, clerics, scientists, or politicians. Civil interaction with native peoples was pursued only when it was critical to the success of European ventures such as procuring gold, silver, fur, and land. These exploitative or antagonistic relationships with native groups arose from ethnocentric attitudes which to some degree still persist in both public and private arenas. But today, we understand the importance of looking at primary sources, both written and archaeological, for a richer and more complete narrative about what such earlier encounters meant to the participants.

With its direct connection with the land removed, Native Alaskan society began to fragment alarmingly quickly. The regional corporations’ failure to provide dividends that were adequate enough to allow people to remain comfortably in their local villages, coupled with the influx of Western Capitalistic Culture brought by the new corporations, led an increasing number of Native Alaskans to begin moving from their traditional subsistence lifestyles in rural villages to the comparatively urban cities of Alaska. Native populations in Anchorage alone doubled between 1970 and 1980. There, the newly urban Alaska Natives were forced to seek out work in a comparatively individualistic society. The western corporate values of competition eroded

Arctic Lowlands is one of the geographic regions in Canada. This geographic region covers part of Nunavut. This region has flat, low area. It is also composed of series of low islands located in the far north of Canada, Nunavut. The climate is the Arctic Lowlands is very harsh. The climate is so bad that the ground remains frozen almost all year. Another thing this region is known for is large scale exploration for minerals such as gold and diamonds. This region is also the home of the largest supply of fossil fuels. This region also contains large amounts of lignite (a form of coal),l oil, and natural gas deposits.

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 Mendenhall is a glacier that is well known by the people of Alaska . The Mendenhall glacier is twelve miles in length, one and half miles wide, and one hundred feet in height. The Sitaauntaagu glacier was the orginal name for the Mendenhall glacier, Sitaauntaagu means glacier behind the town.(Mendenhall glacier). Another Alaskan glacier is Glacier Bay. The Grand Pacific Glacier covered Glacier Bay making the glacier more than four thousand feet thick and twenty miles wide.