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Howard Rock, the Glossary

Index Howard Rock

Howard Rock or Uyaġak (previously written as Weiyahok) (August 10, 1911 – April 20, 1976) was an Iñupiaq newspaper editor, activist, and artist.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Natives, Aleuts, First Alaskans Institute, Iñupiaq language, Iñupiat, Point Hope, Alaska, Project Chariot, Pulitzer Prize, St. Paul, Alaska, Tundra Times, United States Atomic Energy Commission, University of Washington, White Mountains (Alaska), World War II.

  2. 20th-century American newspaper founders
  3. Alaska Native activists
  4. Inuit activists

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Aleuts

Aleuts (Aleuty) are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.

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First Alaskans Institute

The First Alaskans Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to developing the capacities of Alaska Natives and their communities to meet the educational, economic and social challenges of the future.

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Iñupiaq language

Iñupiaq or Inupiaq, also known as Iñupiat, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Iñupiat

The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border.

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Point Hope, Alaska

Point Hope (Tikiġaq) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Project Chariot

Project Chariot was a 1958 United States Atomic Energy Commission proposal to construct an artificial harbor at Cape Thompson on the North Slope of the U.S. state of Alaska by burying and detonating a string of nuclear devices.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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St. Paul, Alaska

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Tundra Times

The Tundra Times was a bi-weekly newspaper published in Fairbanks, Alaska from 1962 to 1997.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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White Mountains (Alaska)

The White Mountains are a mountain range in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

20th-century American newspaper founders

Alaska Native activists

Inuit activists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rock

Also known as Howard Weyahok.