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Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Seyfrit, Carole L. – Arctic, 1993
Surveys of Alaska Native high school students in 2 "hub" towns and 13 villages found significant gender and town-village differences in student aspiration to college, confidence in quality of local education, intention to migrate, and intention to work in mining or oil. Differential migration affects life prospects and acculturation of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alaska Natives, Aspiration, College Bound Students
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Russell, Caskey – American Indian Quarterly, 2009
The term "first contact" usually conjures up an image of a group of European soldiers landing on a beach in the New World, their ship anchored just offshore, while a large group of Natives approaches the soldiers. On both sides there is caution but also curiosity. Beyond the physical collision of two different peoples there is also a…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cultural Differences, Whites, World History