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Alaska Culture
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Alaska is most famous for its
beautiful white cold snowy winters and its people, the Eskimos.
Eskimo are the native inhabitants of Alaska. The word Eskimo
means "eaters of raw meat.” The word was used by
the Algonquin Indians of eastern Canada who named the Alaskan
people Eskimos, because they wore animal-skin clothing and were
adept hunters. The Eskimo culture has a language that is divided
into two major dialectical groups, the Inupik speakers |
(Greenland to western Alaska) and the Yupik speakers (southwestern
Alaska and Siberia). Eskimos adapt to the cold and harsh environment
due to their material culture. Eskimos have a skill in making tools
and other useful devices from al types of material. Clothing sewn
from skins, sled runners made, and the well-known igloo, or snow house,
are some examples of indigenous cultural adaptations developed from
available natural materials. The beauty of Alaska not only lies on
its mountains but in its people and culture as well.
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