Handout
Other

Anchorage Museum: Alaska Gallery: Athabascan Indian History

For Students 9th - 10th
The Anchorage Museum offers a lengthy comprehensive overview of Athabascan Indian history and culture. Includes details on daily life, ceremonial objects, hunting tools, clothing, shelters, and more.
Handout
Other

Anchorage Museum: Alaska Gallery: Alutiiq and Aleut/unangan

For Students 9th - 10th
The Anchorage Museum in Alaska provides a lengthy comprehensive overview of Alutiiq and Aleut history and culture. Includes details on daily life, dioramas, art, ceremonial objects, clothing, and more.
Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive images of two documents important in Alaska's history: the check written for its 1868 purchase from Russia and the Russian Treaty of Cession (an English transcript is provided), which concluded the deal.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Oral Traditions

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students talk about what makes a good story, look at the oral tradition of storytelling, and compare and contrast stories from two different cultural traditions. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center: Aleut

For Students 9th - 10th
The Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian provides general notes on the Aleut people of Alaska. Includes a picture of a painting of an Aleut Hunter.
Activity
Other

Alaska Fish and Game: Ringed Seal

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough site that delves into the physical characteristics, food habits, live history, migration and distribution, and behavior of the ringed seal.
Website
Other

Travel Alaska: Native Alaskans: Athabascans

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains brief information on the life and culture of the Alaskan Indian group known as the Athabaskans.
Website
Other

Travel Alaska: Yup'ik and Cu'pik

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief overview of the culture of the Alaskan Eskimo groups, the Yup'ik and the Cup'ik.
Handout
Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: Mahala Ashley Dickerson

For Students 9th - 10th
Mahala Ashley Dickerson is featured in this brief biography as the first black woman attorney permitted to join the Alabama and Alaska bar associations.