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Vitus Bering, a Dane
working for the Russians, and Alexei Chirikov discovered the
Alaskan mainland and the Aleutian Islands in 1741. The
tremendous land mass of Alaska—equal to one-fifth of the
continental U.S.—was unexplored in 1867 when Secretary of State
William Seward arranged for its purchase from the Russians for
$7,200,000. The transfer of the territory took place on Oct. 18,
1867. Despite a price of about two cents an acre, the purchase
was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.” The first official
census (1880) reported a total of 33,426 Alaskans, all but 430
being of aboriginal stock. The Gold Rush of 1898 resulted in a
mass influx of more than 30,000 people. Since then, Alaska has
contributed billions of dollars' worth of products to the U.S.
economy.
In 1968, a large oil and gas reservoir near Prudhoe Bay on the
Arctic Coast was found. The Prudhoe Bay reservoir, with an
estimated recoverable 10 billion barrels of oil and 27 trillion
cubic feet of gas, is twice as large as any other oil field in
North America. The Trans-Alaska pipeline was completed in 1977
at a cost of $7.7 billion. Oil flows through the 800-mile-long
pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez.
Other important industries are fisheries, wood and wood
products, furs, and tourism.
Denali National Park and Mendenhall Glacier in North Tongass
National Forest are of interest, as is the large totem pole
collection at Sitka National Historical Park. The Katmai
National Park includes the “Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,” an
area of active volcanoes.
The Alaska Native population includes Eskimos, Indians, and
Aleuts. About half of all Alaska Natives are Eskimos. (Eskimo is
used for Alaska Natives; Inuit is used for Eskimos living in
Canada.) The two main Eskimo groups, Inupiat and Yupik, are
distinguished by their language and geography. The former live
in the north and northwest parts of Alaska and speak Inupiaq,
while the latter live in the south and southwest and speak
Yupik.
About a third of Alaska Natives are American Indians. The major
tribes are the Alaskan Athabaskan in the central part of the
state, and the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida in the southeast.
The Aleuts, native to the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak Island, the
lower Alaska and Kenai Peninsulas, and Prince William Sound, are
physically and culturally related to the Eskimos. About 15% of
Alaska Natives are Aleuts. |
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