Aleuts and Inuits.
Aleuts and Inuits.
No, Tlingit is the name of an Alaska Native group of people traditionally occupying Southeast Alaska.
Being born in Alaska does not make you an Alaska Native. That term is used only for people who are indigineous to Alaska such as Eskimos (Inuits), Alieuts, Athabaskans, Tlinkets, and Haidas, just to name a few. Native Alaskan refers to those born in Alaska.
What group of people do anthropologists believe the most of alaska's native people are descended from?
There are many native Americans living in Alaska.
The name, Alaska, is a native word meaning "mainland" which distinguishes it from the many Aleutian islands where the people whose lives were tied to the sea lived.
The Inuit and the Aleuts.
Tlingit, Tsimshian, Aleut, Eskimo
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It is derived from the Aleut native word alaxsxaq meaning mainland.
They are Native Americans who live in British Columbia, Canada and Alaska.
Native Alaskans as we all know are the original natives or indigenous people who have settled in Alaska before the arrival of the Europeans It is believed that the earliest native inhabitants of what is now Alaska were the Thule people - who spread from there to the east and are believed to be the ancestors of all the Inuit peoples from Alaska to Greenland. They seem to have inhabited the coast of Alaska at least as early as 1000 CE. The Inuit/Inupiat are the descendants of these original inhabitants and are considered Alaska natives.