HIST 1010 Lecture 7: Week 21
24 Jul 2020
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The stereotype of northern peoples is that they are few (often even living alone!) and primitive peoples living in hostile climates, and not smart enough to move south. On the contrary, peoples living in the north were among the most culturally and technologically sophisticated peoples anywhere in the world. They had to be to survive the extreme environmental and climatic conditions. They lived in families, communities, and in some cases villages. Alaska is the most culturally (and geographically) diverse area in the north of north america, and it was both the site of entry for the waves of cultures moving in from. Siberia, and the site of the birth of new cultures, based on cultural mixing and adapting to new environments. Regional concentrations were: 1) pacific islands (aluetians); 2) athabascan interior (dene);3) southern coastal panhandle; 4) middle coast (yup"ik / cup"ik); 5) northern. Lifestyles could be divided into terrestrial and marine, which sometimes overlapped.
