Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a bill that removes the words “Oriental,” “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal programs. The Alaskan terms, though, live on in other U.S. laws. Contrary to some ...

Most of us don't know a lot about the Eskimo language, and we know even less about its finer details. But if we are pushed, most of us can dive into a deep recess of our memory, and bring back ...

The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...

FortescueMichael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan 2010 Comparative Eskimo dictionary with Aleut cognates, Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, [2nd ed.]. Jacobson Steven A. 2012 Yup’ik ...

Vol. 82, No. 5/6, Special Issue on the Origins of the Populations of the Aleutian Islands (October-December 2010), pp. 557-581 (25 pages) The Aleut language, currently spoken along the Aleutian chain ...

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Most indigenous Americans are descended from a single group of migrants, but later waves of people made important contributions The biggest survey of Native American DNA has concluded that the New ...

What could Julie Decker, the director of the Anchorage Museum, and the members of the board of the Anchorage Museum Association to whom she reports, have been thinking when they recently announced ...