• The Alaska Native Arts Foundation (2002–present) is a non-profit organization formed to support the Alaska Native art community. Its mission is focused...
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    Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty...
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    people and enhance self-esteem among Native people. The Alaska Native Arts Foundation promotes and markets Native art from all regions and cultures in...
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  • Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian arts and cultures in the United States. NACF's president and CEO is Shyla Spicer, MBA, PMP (Yakama). The Native Arts...
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  • Alvin Eli Amason (category Artists from Alaska)
    Alaska Native Arts and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation. In 2018, Amason was recognized with the Governor's Individual Artist Award for Arts and Humanities...
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  • history and literature, UAA also offers Alaska Native arts courses through the Fine Arts and Alaska Native studies programs, where students have the...
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    to Alice Rogoff, founder of the Alaska House New York and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation and former owner of Alaska Dispatch News. They met while both...
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  • Alice Rogoff (category Alaska Dispatch)
    helped found Alaska House New York and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation. Rogoff and her ex-husband have funded the participation by Juneau, Alaska in the Any...
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    courses in 1975. In 1986, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development was congressionally chartered as a nonprofit organization...
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  • Ursala Hudson (category Alaska Native women)
    Ursala Hudson is an Alaska Native textile artist, graphic designer, and fashion designer. She also photographs and paints. She creates Chilkat weaving...
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    Teri Rofkar (category Alaska Native women)
    the Distinguished Artist Award from the Rasmuson Foundation and a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. In 2004, Rofkar received an Ecotrust...
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  • Jackson Polys (category Artists from Alaska)
    Polys (born 1976 in Ketchikan, Alaska) is a Tlingit Native visual artist and filmmaker whose work is based between Alaska and New York. His work examines...
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  • UAF Cooperative Extension Service, and the Alaska Native Knowledge Network. The University of Alaska Foundation also publishes books. Serial publications...
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    United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", which it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original...
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  • Da-ka-xeen Mehner (category People from Fairbanks, Alaska)
    of American Indian Arts, the Anchorage Museum among other venues. He is currently Professor of Native Art at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where...
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  • visited the Arctic Circle with a friend who worked with the Alaska Native Arts Foundation and during that visit was shown ancient walrus tusk fossils...
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    Lisa Telford (category Alaska Native women)
    Weaver's View". "Native Arts and Cultures Foundation". 5 November 2010. "Lisa Telford - Grant Recipient". New England Foundation for the Arts. 27 June 2023...
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  • The Alaska Native Industries Cooperative Association (ANICA) is a retailers' cooperative operating in rural Alaska, serving Alaskan native villages. As...
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    Nathan Jackson (artist) (category Artists from Alaska)
    Nathan Jackson (born August 29, 1938) is an Alaska Native artist. He is among the most important living Tlingit artists and the most important Alaskan...
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    Nora Marks Dauenhauer (category People from Juneau, Alaska)
    of Alaska's Governor Award for the Arts, Native Alaskan Artist Award 1991: Received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award May 2001: Received...
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    Clarissa Rizal (category Alaska Native women)
    won a 2007–08 Honoring Alaska's Indigenous Literature Award from the Alaska Native Knowledge Network at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Rizal contributed...
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    Nicholas Galanin (category Alaska Native activists)
    dialogue of change and identity between Native and non-Native communities. Nicholas Galanin was born in Sitka, Alaska, in 1979. As a young boy, he learned...
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    Vicki Lee Soboleff (category Alaska Native women)
    Cooke Award in 2016 from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Alaska Humanities Forum for her work with Alaska Native dance. Soboleff was born in...
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  • Emily Johnson (category Alaska Native women)
    New England Foundation for the Arts Native Artist Exchange, 2011 Artist of the Year, City Pages, 2010 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship...
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    Rosita Worl (category Alaska Native women)
    Rosita Kaaháni Worl is an American anthropologist and Alaska Native cultural, business and political leader. She is president of the Sealaska Heritage...
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  • Lily Hope (category Alaska Native women)
    Lily Hope (born 1980, Juneau) is an Alaska Native artist, designer, teacher, weaver, Financial Freedom planner, and community facilitator. She is primarily...
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    census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States. It is in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle and near Glacier Bay National Park...
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  • the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and the Alaska Native Medical Center. The university was founded in the late 1950s as Alaska Methodist University...
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    Ronald Senungetuk (category Artists from Alaska)
    from Wales, Alaska, who worked primarily in wood and metal. He is a citizen of the Native Village of Wales, a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe. Senungetuk...
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    organized as the Native Village of Barrow Iñupiat Traditional Government (previously, Native Village of Barrow), a federally recognized Alaska Native Iñupiat "tribal...
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