Alaska

Examples of Alaska in the following topics:

• Reaction to the Holocaust

  • Ickes proposed the use of Alaska as a "haven for Jewish refugees from Germany and other areas in Europe where the Jews are subjected to oppressive restrictions. " Resettlement in Alaska would allow the refugees to bypass normal immigration quotas, because Alaska was a territory and not a state.
  • That summer Ickes had toured Alaska and met with local officials to discuss improving the local economy and bolstering security in a territory viewed as vulnerable to Japanese attack.
  • In his proposal, Ickes pointed out that 200 families from the dustbowl had settled in Alaska's Matanuska Valley.
  • The Alaska proposal won the support of theologian Paul Tillich, the Federal Council of Churches and the American Friends Service Committee.
  • Roosevelt never mentioned the Alaska proposal in public, and without his support the plan died.

• Congressional Districts

  • States with only one district include Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
  • Alaska, Delaware, and Wyoming are the only states that have never had more than one district.
  • Alaska is the district with the greatest area and New York's 15th district has the smallest area.

• Arbitration

  • For example, in 1903, arbitration resolved a dispute over the Canada-Alaska border.
  • The Alaska Purchase of 1867 drew the boundary between Canada and Alaska in ambiguous fashion.
  • With the gold rush into the Yukon in 1898, miners had to enter through Alaska and Canada wanted the boundary redrawn to obtain its own port.
  • The issue went to arbitration and the Alaska boundary dispute was resolved in US favor by an arbitration in 1903 .

• Inuit Art

  • Around 4000 BCE, nomads known as the Pre-Dorset or the Arctic Small Tool tradition (ASTt) crossed over the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, and Newfoundland.
  • An Ipiutak archaeological site at Point Hope Alaska is renowned for its mortuary offerings, one of which is termed a "mask."
  • Around 1000 CE, the people of the Thule culture, ancestors of today's Inuit, migrated from northern Alaska and either displaced or slaughtered the earlier Dorset inhabitants.

• Woodcarving in the Northwest Coast Cultures

  • Art from the indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast and Alaska is distinguished by its complex woodcarvings and its use of formline.
  • Evaluate the effects of European contact on the art produced in the Northwest coast and Alaska.

• African and Asian Origins

  • Though migrants from northeastern Asia could have walked to Alaska with relative ease when Beringia was above sea level, traveling south from Alaska to the rest of North America may have posed significant challenges.
  • One theory suggests people in boats followed the coastline from the Kuril Islands to Alaska, and then down the coasts of North and South America as far as Chile .
  • One theory suggests that Southeast Asians followed the coast lines from the Kuril Islands to Alaska.

• Prokaryotes and Environmental Bioremediation

  • The importance of prokaryotes to petroleum bioremediation has been demonstrated in several oil spills in recent years, such as the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska (1989), the Prestige oil spill in Spain (2002), the spill into the Mediterranean from a Lebanon power plant (2006), and, more recently, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) .
  • (a) Cleaning up oil after the Valdez spill in Alaska, workers hosed oil from beaches and then used a floating boom to corral the oil, which was finally skimmed from the water surface.

• Migration

  • Close to 37% of Americans have never moved from the community in which they were born.There are wide variations in native inhabitants, however: 76% of Texans were born in-state while only 14% of Nevadans were born in-state.Some states lose a large number of people who were born in the state as well, like Alaska, where only 28% of the people born in that state have remained there.Immigration is often a controversial topic, for a variety of reasons, though many have to do with competition between those already living in the destination location and those arriving in that location.One recent study finds that one type of competition between immigrants and non-immigrants may be overstated.Some people have suggested that natives' opportunities to attend college are negatively impacted through competition with immigrants.Neymotin (2009) finds that competition with immigrants does not harm the educational outcomes of U.S. natives and may in fact facilitate college attending.

• Economic Prosperity

  • This picture shows the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, which carries oil from northern Alaska to the rest of the United States.

• Ballinger and Pinchot

  • Glavis met with the president at Taft's summer retreat in Beverly, Massachusetts, and presented him with a 50-page report accusing Ballinger of an improper interest in his handling of coalfield claims in Alaska.
  • In 1907, Cunningham had partnered with the Morgan-Guggenheim "Alaska Syndicate" to develop coal interests in Alaska.