Alaskan Natives
Alaskan Natives – American Indians of the Artic and Sub-Artic
This is our index to the north American Indians of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions of North America. Most indigenous people of this region are Inuit, who do not consider themselves to be Indian.
Some Yupik and Aleut people call themselves Indians, and others do not. Some Native people of the Arctic region use the Cree word “Eskimo” to refer to themselves; others consider that term to be derogatory and are offended by its use.
Collectively, the indigenous people of the arctic and sub-arctic culture regions in the United States are also referred to as Alaskan Natives.
The term “native americans,” commonly used to refer to the indigenous people of the lower 48 states in the US, is generally not used when referring to the native people of Alaska.
Alaskan native cultures are generally grouped by their languages. Within each culture are many different tribes.
- Alaskan Athabaskans
- Ahtna
- Deg Hit’an
- Dena’ina
- Gwich’in
- Hän
- Holikachuk
- Koyukon
- Lower Tanana
- Tanacross
- Upper Tanana
- Upper Kuskokwim (Kolchan)
- Eyak
- Tlingit
- Haida
- Tsimshian
- Eskimo
- Iñupiat, an Inuit group
- Yupik
- Siberian Yupik
- Yup’ik
- Cup’ik
- Sugpiaq ~ Alutiiq
- Chugach Sugpiaq
- Koniag Alutiiq
- Aleut (Unangan)
Subcategories
- Babine-Wet'suwet'en
- Alutiiq People
- Beaver Tribe
- Beothuk Tribe
- Carrier Tribe
- Chilcotin Tribe
- Chipewyan Tribe
- Cree Tribe
- Deline Tribe
- Dogrib Tribe
- Eyak Tribe
- Gwich'in Tribe
- Han Tribe
- Hare Tribe
- Holikachuk Tribe
- Ingalik Tribe
- Innu Tribe
- Inuit People
- Kaska Tribe
- Koyukon Tribe
- Kuskokwim Tribe
- Ojibwe Tribe
- Sekani Tribe
- Slavey Tribe
- Tagish Tribe
- Tahltan Tribe
- Tanacross Tribe
- Tanaina Tribe
- Tanana Tribe
- Tsetsaut Tribe
- Tutchone Tribe
- Yellowknife Tribe
- Yupik People
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The Aleut people (pronounced Ah-loot), who call themselves Unangan (singular, pronounced Uh-nang-an) or Unangax̂(plural), arrived some 5,000 years ago, and settled in loose family groups on the coast and offshore islands of southwest Alaska. They are believed to be the last prehistoric migration of people from Asia.