Alaska Ethnography Total Population of Eskimo Indian and Aleut 1942 Map

This map shows three distinctly different people, there are actually eleven distinct cultures in Alaska that can be described geographically: Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian peoples live in the Southeast; the Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik live in the north and northwest parts of Alaska; Yup’ik and Cup’ik Alaska Natives live in southwest Alaska; the Athabascan peoples live in Alaska’s interior; and south-central Alaska and the Aleutian Islands are the home of the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) and Unangax peoples, making up 231 recognized tribes in Alaska. In 1942 the federal government was not sensitive to being accurate in its tallying of the indigenous people of Territory of Alaska. This map shows three distinctly different people, there are actually eleven distinct cultures in Alaska that can be described geographically: Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian peoples live in the Southeast; the Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik live in the north and northwest parts of Alaska; Yup’ik and Cup’ik Alaska Natives live in southwest Alaska; the Athabascan peoples live in Alaska’s interior; and south-central Alaska and the Aleutian Islands are the home of the Alutiiq (Sugpiaq) and Unangax peoples, making up 231 recognized tribes in Alaska. In 1942 the federal government was not sensitive to being accurate in its tallying of the indigenous people of Territory of Alaska.