Iñupiat

Iñupiat HC https://www.nps.gov/inup/index.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B1upiat_Heritage_Center The Iñupiat Heritage Center is a museum in Utqiaġvik in the U.S. state of Alaska. Dedicated in February 1999, it is an affiliated area of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and recognizes the contributions of Alaska Natives to the history of whaling. It houses exhibits, artifact collections, a library, a gift shop, and a traditional room where traditional crafts are demonstrated and taught. On the rooftop of the world, the Iñupiat Heritage Center in Barrow, Alaska, tells the story of the Iñupiat people. They have thrived for thousands of years in one of the most extreme climates on Earth, hunting the bowhead, or "Agviq." In the 19th century, the quiet northern seas swarmed with commercial whalemen from New England, who also sought the bowhead for its valuable baleen and blubber. The Inupiat Heritage Center is located in Barrow, Alaska, the largest city in the North Slope Borough and the northernmost city in the United States. Barrow can be reached via commercial and charter flights from Anchorage and Fairbanks. Clothing of the Inupiaq Museum exhibit case with fur parkas and boots Traditional clothing of the Inupiaq on exhibit at the Center Waiting for whales Two people sit by a tent and a skin canoe in snow next to the ocean. A whaling crew (Hopson 1) waits patiently at the open lead for a bowhead whale, May 2002. Inupiat Heritage Center Large building with words "Inupiat Heritage Center" on the side The Inupiat Heritage Center promotes Inupiaq culture, history and language through exhibits, classes, performances and activities. Inupiaq whalers Five people in heavy clothing paddle a skin canoe in icy waters Masks Five masks with fur trim in a display case. A collection of masks from the Inupiat Heritage Center Aurora Borealis: A Brief Overview A brief overview of how Northern Lights occur. two ribbons of greenish light in a dark blue sky, over a very dark forest Caribou: Did You Know? Did you know facts and life history about the Western Arctic Caribou Herd of northwest Alaska Bull caribou in the Brooks Range mountains of Alaska The 19th Amendment, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and the Ongoing Fight for Equal Rights In Alaska, women's suffrage passed in 1913—seven years prior to the 19th Amendment—and antidiscrimination legislation passed nearly 20 years prior to the major national civil rights bills of the 1960s. In the 1940s, Elizabeth Peratrovich—a Tlingit woman who was Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood—led the charge to end discrimination against Alaska Natives. gold coin of a raven, a woman's face, and words elizabeth peratrovich anti-discrimination law Black History in the Last Frontier: Black Whalers in the North Pacific and Arctic Black whalers were among the first Americans to reach Alaska, specifically its southeast panhandle, in the early 1840s. Some of these men had escaped enslavement in the American South, while others were free men of color from the North. It would have been difficult to find a more racially and geographically diverse industry than whaling in the nineteenth century. a historic scene of a ship with large sails navigating icy waters.

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