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Alaska's statehood is relatively brief yet
the state's history is long and colorful.
Dinosaurs once roamed the Great Land,
followed by bison and woolly
mammoths.
A series of fur, timber, gold, fishing and
oil booms and busts have marked
Alaska's history and culture. Each boom
brought in a different set of people.
Alaska Natives, who make up 15 percent
of the state's population, maintain many
traditions, such as whaling, subsistence
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hunting and fishing, and old ways of making crafts and art. Native heritage history and culture
can be found in such diverse places as Ketchikan, Anchorage and Kotzebue, as well as in
hundreds of villages where people live in traditional ways.
Western Alaska -- from the coast of the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean inland to a line from
Kodiak Island north to the Arctic Circle -- has for millennia been the home of Inupiat, Yupik,
Aleuts and Athabascans.
Glacier Bay National Park is a refugee from the ice ages: tidewater glaciers calving into frigid
seas, cliff-flanked fjords and plants creeping up scoured valleys where glaciers retreated.
Brown bears helped make Kodiak Island and Katmai National Park famous, but the bears are
almost everywhere in the region. Other large land mammals include moose, caribou and
wolves. At sea, watch for humpback, gray and killer whales, as well as sea lions, seals and sea
otters.
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