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"Eskimo Village" on the Pay Streak at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909

The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to…
ID Number:1995.38.37.62
Date:1909
Image of Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985

On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985
Image of Oral history interview with Allison and David (Guy) Demmert, November 6, 2015
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Oral history interview with Allison and David (Guy) Demmert, November 6, 2015

Interview with commercial fisherman David (Guy) and Allison Demmert conducted by Jeffrey Kahrs for the Commercial Fisherman Oral History Project on November 6, 2015. In the interview, the Demmert's discuss their careers fishing along the West Coast and in Southeast Alaska. Guy Demmert is a seine captain and Allison Demmert is a deckhand. Conversations include women skippering boats and fishing…
ID Number:2018.63.3
Date:2015
Image of Indigenous women merchants at Treadwell Mines on Douglas Island, Alaska, July 1897
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Indigenous women merchants at Treadwell Mines on Douglas Island, Alaska, July 1897

The Tlingit people have lived on the coast and islands of what is now southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. Tlingit society is organized into clans, which follow maternal descent. Fishing, gathering, and hunting were central to historic Tlingit lifeways – they used salmon, shellfish, seals, berries, deer, and other food sources. They used every part for different purposes, not wasting…
ID Number:SHS9
Date:1897
Image of Infant asleep in a sling, Alaska, circa 1905
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Infant asleep in a sling, Alaska, circa 1905

In this image, an infant wearing a cap covered with buttons sleeps in a birchbark sling rigged with a rocking mechanism. The style of the cap appears Tlingit, but the infant's moccasins and the sling are probably of Alaskan Athabaskan origin. Around the beginning of the 20th century, white photographers used photographs of Indigenous babies on commercial products, and this…
ID Number:SHS1765
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Tlingit women weaving baskets, Alaska, circa 1897
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Tlingit women weaving baskets, Alaska, circa 1897

The Tlingit people have lived on the coast and islands of what is now southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. Tlingit society is organized into clans, which follow maternal descent. Fishing, gathering, and hunting were central to historic Tlingit lifeways - they used salmon, shellfish, seals, berries, deer, and other food sources. They used every part for different purposes, not wasting…
ID Number:SHS1766
Date:Circa 1897
Image of Chilkat people in dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1895
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Chilkat people in dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1895

The Chilkat are a Tlingit tribe who have lived in and around their village of Klukwan on the Chilkat River, in southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. They lived on foods available on their lands as well as trading with other tribes on the Pacific coast and inland. Settlers came to Chilkat lands in large numbers in the early 20th century,…
ID Number:SHS1769
Date:Circa 1895
Image of Camp of Auke Natives, Alaska, circa 1896
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Camp of Auke Natives, Alaska, circa 1896

The Tlingit people have lived on the coast and islands of what is now southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. Tlingit society is organized into clans, which follow maternal descent. Fishing, gathering, and hunting were central to historic Tlingit lifeways - they used salmon, shellfish, seals, berries, deer, and other food sources. They used every part for different purposes, not wasting…
ID Number:SHS1772
Date:Circa 1896
Image of Woman weaving a Chilkat blanket, Alaska, circa 1904
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Woman weaving a Chilkat blanket, Alaska, circa 1904

The Chilkat are a Tlingit tribe who have lived in and around their village of Klukwan on the Chilkat River, in southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. They lived on foods available on their lands as well as trading with other tribes on the Pacific coast and inland. Settlers came to Chilkat lands in large numbers in the early 20th century,…
ID Number:SHS1773
Date:Circa 1904
Image of Group of Chilkat people in traditional dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1895
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Group of Chilkat people in traditional dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1895

The Chilkat are a Tlingit tribe who have lived in and around their village of Klukwan on the Chilkat River, in southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. They lived on foods available on their lands as well as trading with other tribes on the Pacific coast and inland. Settlers came to Chilkat lands in large numbers in the early 20th century,…
ID Number:SHS1785
Date:Circa 1895
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