Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J ... Northern Eskimos (Inupiat), Southern Eskimos (Yuit), Interior Indians (Athabascans) and Southeast Coastal Indians (Tlingit and Haida).

Experiencing Alaska Native creativity and culture in person ... The ancestral homelands of the Athabascans span from the Brooks Range in the north, to Cook Inlet in the southcentral region ...

Athabascans, one of the many groups of Native Alaskans, have lived in the Fairbanks area for thousands of years. The area around present-day Fairbanks was an important meeting place for Native ...