Native Alaskans are divided into three broad groups: the Aleuts, the Inuit ... Alaska Natives account for just over 15 percent of the total Alaskan population of approximately 648,000 people.

Tootalik Ejangiaq enters her tent at the annual spring camp where she helps young people learn traditional Inuit skills. Passing down ancestral hunting and survival skills is seen as crucial at a ...

Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J ... An Aleut two-hatch bidarka, used in seal hunting. Click image for a larger view The Aleuts are distinctive among the world's people ...

Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and ... The Inuit have to hunt animals to ...