these Eskimo communities could not long maintain their traditional way of life. Occupying the islands and mainland of southeast Alaska are the northernmost groups of the Northwest Coast cultures ...

Native Alaskans are divided into three broad groups: the Aleuts, the Inuit ... of the Alaska Highway on the area's native population: "Construction projects transformed aboriginal life in the ...

While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo group, not only the Inuit; and (b) its use is widespread in Native ...