Archive Photos/Getty Images 1880: Alaska was populated by many Native tribes for thousands of years. Today, the two biggest tribes are the Yup'ik and the Tlingit.

The Alaska Native Heritage Center sits east of downtown Anchorage along the Glenn Highway and welcomes visitors daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. between May and September.

Gigi Berardi, Schools, Settlement, and Sanitation in Alaska Native Villages, Ethnohistory, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 329-359 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - This year's once-a-decade official U.S. national population count will start in a small Alaska Native village perched on the tundra overlooking the Bering Sea.