Alaska Native people and activities, circa 1940s
Alaska photographer Howard C. Robinson presented these scenes of Alaska Native peoples engaging in a variety of activities including embarking on a seal hunt, jigging for tomcod, working on a kayak, using a bow drill, participating in a blanket toss, putting on masks, dancing, and drumming. Includes footage of a fish wheel and fish drying. (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-11895 -- AAF-11896 from the Michael Wilson - Florence and Charles Van Clark collection, held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. See also the Howard C. Robinson collection. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
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The skills the Eskimo people have developed from generation to generation just to stay alive in such a cold climate are to be admired and respected. Even with such a difficult life there seems to be a lot of smiles, enjoyed watching this valuable piece of history.
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In America they recognized Inuit is indigenous to the land but in VN Vietnamese they not recognized Montagnard indigenous to the land they called us ethnic seem like we are not belong to the land and we have no indigenous rights also Vietnamese to racism.