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Sam Phillips (Yup'ik)
"Crow Village" Sam Phillips (Yup'ik, c. 1893–1974) was an Alaskan Native leader who lived in the mid-Kuskokwim River valley in Alaska. Early life Sam Phillips was born around 1893 in the old Crow Village, Alaska. Birth records in the area were not maintained until 1914, so that date is based on Crow Village Sam's recollection as told to archaeologist Wendell H. Oswalt in 1963.Oswalt, Wendell H. & James W. Vanstone (1967). "The Ethnoarchaeology of Crow Village, Alaska," reprinted by Coyote Press. When Phillips was about 10 years old, he and his community evacuated from Old Crow Village due to shifts in the Kuskokwim River sediment. They settled a half-mile downriver. Their more recent settlement was called New Crow Village. Today, it is simply called Crow Village and the original settlement is referred to as Old Crow Village. Phillips survived the ''kanukpuk'' or "big sickness", an early 20th-century influenza epidemic that wiped out about 50 percent of the population along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crow Village
Crow Village is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community on the Kuskokwim River in the U.S. state of Alaska. There are an estimated six residents. Geography Crow Village is located in the Bethel Census Area on the north bank of the Kuskokwim River by river west of Aniak, Alaska, Aniak, just downstream from where the Crow Village Slough flows back into the Kuskokwim River. Crow Village is northeast of Bethel, Alaska, Bethel. Demographics Old Crow Village first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of "Toolooka-anahamute" (AKA Tuluka). All 59 residents were listed as Inuit. It returned on the 1890 census as "Tulukagnagamiut." It featured 17 residents, all Native. It did not report on the census again. The original village is referred to today as "Old Crow Village", located 1/2 mile east of the present "new" village. Crow Village is, as of 2010, not a part of any census-designated place or Alaska Native Village Statistical Area (ANVSA), so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Pre-statehood Alaska
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |