The Demography of the Native Population of an Alaskan City
Information from archival and census data shows that Alaskan natives, mainly Athapascans, started to move into Fairbanks over fifty years ago. During the Second World War, jobs available on construction projects attracted both Eskimos and Athapascans in family units. It appears from recent data that...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65895 2023-05-15T14:19:18+02:00 The Demography of the Native Population of an Alaskan City Milan, Frederick A. Pawson, Stella 1975-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65895 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65895/49809 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65895 ARCTIC; Vol. 28 No. 4 (1975): December: 229–308; 275-283 1923-1245 0004-0843 Nunavik Québec Labrador info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1975 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:54Z Information from archival and census data shows that Alaskan natives, mainly Athapascans, started to move into Fairbanks over fifty years ago. During the Second World War, jobs available on construction projects attracted both Eskimos and Athapascans in family units. It appears from recent data that those now moving into the city are unmarried and younger than earlier migrants, that women outnumber men, and marriages between native and non-native Alaskans are becoming more common. Forty-four per cent of a sample of 1,029 persons lived in inter-racial households in 1972. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic eskimo* Nunavik University of Calgary Journal Hosting Fairbanks Nunavik ARCTIC 28 4 |
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Information from archival and census data shows that Alaskan natives, mainly Athapascans, started to move into Fairbanks over fifty years ago. During the Second World War, jobs available on construction projects attracted both Eskimos and Athapascans in family units. It appears from recent data that those now moving into the city are unmarried and younger than earlier migrants, that women outnumber men, and marriages between native and non-native Alaskans are becoming more common. Forty-four per cent of a sample of 1,029 persons lived in inter-racial households in 1972. |
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The Demography of the Native Population of an Alaskan City |
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The Demography of the Native Population of an Alaskan City |
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