@officialfireboy120
As an Alaskan Native, Yup'ik. If you want to see the northern lights it's better to come during December or late November, January is our rainy and winter era. But aye, at least you came up here to see the beauty
@elizabethserrano7490
As a born and raised Alaskan, I’m sorry to say that you missed a whole layer of maps when it comes to Alaska. We frequently use cultural regions as place markers instead of the native corporations you showed. The Yukon, Kuskokwim, and Koyukuk are all cultural regions (though there are more) and we use these to describe place locations in Alaska when talking with other locals. Great video though!
@repoocrj
Athabaskan Native here, grew up my entire life in Bush Alaska. Left when I was 18… needed sunshine ☀️ This was a good summary, your entire channel could be 100% on AK and you would never run out of stories to tell! Chen’an (thank you).
@andyjay729
Barbs ain't kidding about the earthquakes. Alaska had the 2nd largest earthquake in recorded human history in 1964, about 9.2, centered near Valdez. It made the then-new Space Needle shake all the way down in Seattle.
@mariaveter88
Local Alaskan here. My heart goes out to you, you described the salt of winter driving here and managed to stay humorousand positive. It is also dark most of the time in the winter, which doesn't help. I used to drive 100 miles through all that to get to college. Seeing nothing but snow and cars in ditches, helping some get pulled out. Then come into class, heart still pounding and grateful to be alive and be scolded for being 5 minutes late to a calculus quiz🎉😅
@jerb920
Love the Alaska content from a half Filipino born and raised Alaskan. I used to live in the Northwest Arctic Borough for 6 years after being raised in Anchorage and it’s such a different experience being off the road system. It was a beautiful, harsh experience that I’ll never forget.
@jacobdelaney8465
As an Alaskan I always get excited to see a geography/history channel talking about Alaska and half of the stuff mentioned in the video I didn’t even know about so it was fun to learn some new stuff, my family donates to the Anchorage museum and have a plaque there so I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
@willhelmer6209
You should consider making a video on the Hawaiian homelands. Native Hawaiians also have a unique system of land allotment.
@GeographyNow
Seriously it took me forever to understand this one. Hope you understood too after watching this. If not, I should probably just quit my job and become an Ice cream truck salesman. Like not selling the ice cream, I mean selling the TRUCKS. ANYWAY Hope you like this one, and if any of you plan to visit Alaska, I hope you survive!
@glumreaper8885
The question at 10:25: This is correct. Alaska Native people in 1972 could only register for one village and then one corporation. Now, registration isn't guaranteed. Native corporations have voluntary transfer of shares, only to birth descendants, but only a few of the corporations observe automatic enrollment for descendants. There are tens of thousands of Natives here born after 1972 without any enrollment in their corporations because their parents didnt choose to give them shares.
@YuriNikolajavič
Also as a fellow native, there is more native artifacts on display in the Native Corp offices and the Alaska Native Health Consourtium
@Naheenmather
Good talk. I’m Alaska native. Our corporations aren’t on the Fortune 500. I am landless in southeast Alaska, no local village for my tribe. We are an interesting people. Enjoy Alaska. Land of the great spirit. ❤
@jdmiller7404
As an Alaskan Native, I applaud you for making AK make as much sense as possible in laymen terms without living the lifestyle. Also, as an Alaskan Native, I laugh at you for driving a hybrid....in Dec.....on the highway through the Interior. XD
@onewhoisanonymous
Hey Barb. I really appreciate your videos. When I taught on St. Lawrence Island, I used your videos in my class to teach geography. I had to teach Alaskan history and government, I got so confused trying to teach anything about state government. Weirdly St. Lawrence is closer to Russia (35 miles), but they are in the Nome Population area which is 200 miles away. The Bering Straits are under one school district. So little diomede is under the same school district as St. Lawrence Island and several villages on the mainland. Fun fact: There is a high population of Filipinos in Alaska because of the teacher shortage. So over 50% of the teachers in many villages are Filipinos.
@Mypromiselive
As a native I find this so funny. I've never seen someone make the driving look so difficult lol
@stevenholley3529
Yes, when we are born, we can only be associated with one village, but we can inherit or be gifted from multiple villages/ regions
@aidanpayan6919
Im from Fairbanks. You came at the worst weather disaster we’ve had all winter, terrible luck. Alaska also is home to the only indigenous studies college in the US at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Native corporations are a huge part of our economy. Afognak corporation is our 2nd largest employer, Chenega and Doyon corporations are also huge. Another interesting fact is we have one real reservation that’s named Metlakatla in the far southeast.
@jandraelune1
You missed one more thing with Alaska, the entire states residents also get a share of the natural resource profits anually. Alaska has been running the US's longest run Universal Basic Income.
@wolfhe-him4420
Tlingit, Aleut and Athabaskan here from Sitka, AK. I'm impressed you learned so much about alaska, not many would have bothered. Thanks for getting it correct. Oh and yes it's 1 region and 1 local and they go together. Like mine are sitka and southeast, whereas my dad is ninilchik and the Kenai peninsula.
@GeographyNow