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History of Alaska - Wikipedia. The history of Alaska dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (around 1. BC), when wanderer groups crossed the Bering land bridge into what is now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers, the area was populated by Alaska Native groups. The name "Alaska" derives from the Aleut word Alaxsxaq (also spelled Alyeska), meaning "mainland" (literally, "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed").[1]In the 1.
Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska. Alaska was granted territorial status in 1.
United States of America. In 1. 94. 2, two of the outer Aleutian Islands—Attu and Kiska—were occupied by the Japanese and their recovery for the U. S. became a matter of national pride. The construction of military bases contributed to the population growth of some Alaskan cities.
Alaska was granted U. S. statehood on January 3, 1. In 1. 96. 4, the massive "Good Friday earthquake" killed 1. The 1. 96. 8 discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the 1. Trans- Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. In 1. 98. 9, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince William Sound, spilling between 1. US gallons (4. 2,0.
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Today, the battle between philosophies of development and conservation is seen in the contentious debate over oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Prehistory of Alaska[edit]Paleolithic families moved into northwestern North America sometime between 1. BC across the Bering land bridge in Alaska.[2] Alaska became populated by the Inuit and a variety of Native American groups. Today, early Alaskans are divided into several main groups: the Southeastern Coastal Indians (the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian), the Athabascans, the Aleut, and the two groups of Eskimos, the Inupiat and the Yup'ik.[3]The coastal migrants from Asia were probably the first wave of humans to cross the Bering Land Bridge in western Alaska, and many of them initially settled in the interior of what is now Canada. The Tlingit were the most numerous of this group, claiming most of the coastal Panhandle by the time of European contact and are the northernmost of the group of advanced cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast renowned for its complex art and political systems and the ceremonial and legal system known as the potlatch. The southern portion of Prince of Wales Island was settled by the Haidas fleeing persecution by other Haidas from the Queen Charlotte Islands (now part of British Columbia). The Aleuts settled the islands of the Aleutian chain approximately 1.
Cultural and subsistence practices varied widely among native groups, who were spread across vast geographical distances. Early Russian settlement[edit].
Alexandr Baranov, "Lord of Alaska."On some islands and parts of the Alaskan peninsula, groups of traders had been capable of relatively peaceful coexistence with the local inhabitants. Other groups could not manage the tensions and perpetrated exactions. Hostages were taken, individuals were enslaved, families were split up, and other individuals were forced to leave their villages and settle elsewhere.
In addition, eighty percent of the Aleut population was destroyed by Old Worlddiseases, against which they had no immunity, during the first two generations of Russian contact.[4]In 1. Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov arrived in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island, operating the Shelikhov- Golikov Company.[5] Shelikhov and his men killed hundreds of indigenous Koniag, then founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on the island's Three Saints Bay. By 1. 78. 8 a number of Russian settlements had been established by Shelikhov and others over a large region, including the mainland areas around Cook Inlet. The Russians had gained control of the habitats of the most valuable sea otters, the Kurilian- Kamchatkan and Aleutian sea otters. Their fur was thicker, glossier, and blacker than those of sea otters on the Pacific Northwest Coast and California.
The Russians, therefore, advanced to the Northwest Coast only after the superior varieties of sea otters were depleted, around 1. The Russian entry to the Northwest Coast was slow, however, due to a shortage of ships and sailors. Yakutat Bay was reached in 1. Slavorossiya was built there in 1. Reconnaissance of the coast as far as the Queen Charlotte Islands was carried out by James Shields, a British employee of the Golikov- Shelikhov Company. In 1. 79. 5 Alexandr Baranov, who had been hired in 1.
Shelikhov's fur enterprise, sailed into Sitka Sound, claiming it for Russia. Hunting parties arrived in the following years and by 1. Russian America's sea otter skins were coming from the Sitka Sound area. In July 1. 79. 9 Baranov returned on the brig Oryol and established the settlement of Arkhangelsk.
It was destroyed by Tlingits in 1. Novo- Arkhangelsk (New Archangel). It soon become the primary settlement and colonial capital of Russian America. After the Alaska Purchase, it was renamed Sitka, the first capital of Alaska Territory.[6]Missionary activity[edit]St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka. The original structure, built in 1.
January 2, 1. 96. The cathedral was rebuilt from plans of the original structure and contains artifacts rescued from the fire.
The Russian Orthodox religion (with its rituals and sacred texts, translated into Aleut at a very early stage) had been informally introduced, in the 1. During his settlement of Three Saints Bay in 1. Watch The Mourning Hindi Full Movie. Shelikov introduced the first resident missionaries and clergymen. This missionary activity would continue into the 1. Russian colonial period in contemporary Alaska. Spanish claims[edit]. Spanish contact in British Columbia and Alaska.
Spanish claims to Alaska dated to the papal bull of 1. Instead there were various naval expeditions to explore the region and claim it for Spain. In 1. 77. 5, Bruno de Hezeta led an expedition; The Sonora, under Bodega y Quadra, ultimately reached latitude 5. Sitka Sound and formally claimed the region for Spain. The 1. 77. 9 expedition of Ignacio de Arteaga and Bodega y Quadra reached Port Etches on Hinchinbrook Island, and entered Prince William Sound. They reached a latitude of 6. Spain. In 1. 78. 8, Esteban José Martínez and Gonzalo López de Haro visited Russian settlements at Unalaska.[7]The Nootka Crisis of 1.
Britain and Spain, when Britain rejected Spanish claims to lands in British Columbia and Spain seized some British ships. The crisis was resolved by the Nootka Convention, which provided that the northwest coast would be open to traders of both Britain and Spain, that the captured British ships would be returned and an indemnity paid. It was a victory for Britain and Spain effectively withdrew from the North Pacific.[8] It transferred its claims in the region to the United States in the Adams- Onís Treaty of 1. Today, Spain's Alaskan legacy endures as little more than a few place names, among these the Malaspina Glacier and the towns of Valdez and Cordova. Britain's presence[edit]British settlements at the time in Alaska consisted of a few scattered trading outposts, with most settlers arriving by sea. Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1. North America aboard HMS Resolution, from then- Spanish California all the way to the Bering Strait.
During the trip, he discovered what came to be known as Cook Inlet (named in honor of Cook in 1. George Vancouver, who had served under his command) in Alaska.