In one teaching pamphlet, for instance, Peter Simple, Bahá'í Athabascan Indian from Fort Yukon, Alaska, asserts that in ancient times God sent prophets to the native peoples, and stresses the importance 'Abdu'l-Bahá placed, in the Tablets of the Divine Plan, on teaching native Americans ...
Dinero, S. C. (2004). The politics of education provision in rural Native Alaska: The case of Yukon Village. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 7 (4), 401–419.Dinero, S.C. (2004). The politics of education provision in rural Native Alaska: The case of Yukon Village. Race Ethnicity and...
We conduct a close reading of key historical and ethnographic accounts of four historical AI/AN contexts—the Iroquois Confederation under the Great Law of Peace, 19th century accounts of the Ojibwa village, the Santa Clara Pueblo government in pre-19th century, and Yup’ik village life in the...
Kutchin– A group of Athapascan tribes in Alaska and Canada that once inhabited the region on the Yukon and its tributaries above Nuklukayet, the Peel River Basin, and the lower Mackenzie Valley. Their name means “people,” and the group included several tribes, including the Tenakutchin,...
George Washington is called the “village burner” in Mohawk because of all the villages he ordered burnt. Villages would be surrounded. As the people came running out, they would be shot, stabbed, women, children and elders alike. In one campaign alone “hundreds of thousand died, from New...
Alaska Nickolas warner // Shutterstock Alaska - All-time highest temperature: 100° F (Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915) - All-time lowest temperature: -80° F (Prospect Creek on Jan. 23, 1971) - All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 15.05 inches (Seward Airport on Oct. 10, 1986) ...
The anthropology of native copper technology and social complexity in Alaska and the Yukon Territory: An analysis using archaeology, archaeometry, and ethnohistory.Metal artifacts from archaeological sites have long been important to archaeologists interested in the origins (invention and diffusion) of ...
Dental therapists linked to improved dental outcomes for Alaska Native communities in the Yukon‐Kuskokwim DeltaDental Health Aide TherapistsAlaska Native oral health disparitiesdental utilizationaccess to dental caredental workforceObjectives Dental Health Aide Therapists...
Objectives Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) have been part of the dental workforce in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta since 2006. They are trained to provide preventive and restorative care such as filling and extractions. In this study, we evaluated community-level dental outcomes ...
Several different ethnolinguistic groups in south-central Alaska and southwestern Yukon used native copper. This indigenous innovation diffused throughout the region with the majority of use occurring from AD. 1000 to 1700. The relatively recent origin of this technology and its continued use long ...