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In studying indigenous people, the American Indians of the Northwest Coast traditionally lived on a narrow belt of Pacific coastland and offshore islands. The Northwest Coast culture area stretches from what is now the southern border of Alaska to northwestern California. The Pacific Ocean is the western boundary. To the...
In studying indigenous people, the culture area south of the Arctic is called the Subarctic. It includes most of what are now Alaska and Canada (excluding the Maritime Provinces—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island—which are part of the Northeast culture area). Subarctic peoples from Alaska are often collectively...
‘Vellichor’ is an intriguing word. It stood out to me on one of those mundane and redundant BuzzFeed lists entitled “32 Of The Most Beautiful Words In The English Language”. We all have our obscure and odd guilty pleasures; mine happens to be searching through books, and in this...