The National Park Service conducts history studies to understand the relationship of people to the land within park units. These publications include Historic Context Studies, Historic Resource Studies, and others, all designed to help managers, interpreters, and the general public appreciate the importance of the past and historical resources.
Below you will find links to history studies from Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
Arctic Odyssey, a historic publication by NPS Historian Chris Allan
Cover image of Arctic Odyssey
Arctic Odyssey
This Historic Context Study describes the Koyukuk River gold stampede in 1898-99 and the influence of the gold rush phenomenon on the area where Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve is today.
This Historic Context Study focuses on exploration in the Brooks Range and across northern Alaska from the early 1800s to the present; it also examines how the reasons for exploration in this region have changed over time.
Locations:Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
Situated inside the park’s boundaries, at the top of a 2,000 foot mountain pass, the village of Anaktuvuk Pass is a great place to start your exploration of the north central areas of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
Locations:Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
As one of the last remaining persons to have completed The Long Walk - a major and permanent move to the final destination of the previously nomadic Nunamiut people - Rachel Riley was a leading advocate for the continuing knowledge and practice of the traditional Nunamiut culture. Rachel's most prominent role was as an Inupiaq language teacher.
Locations:Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Denali National Park & Preserve, Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Iñupiat Heritage Center, Katmai National Park & Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Noatak National Preserve, Sitka National Historical Park, Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve, Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preservemore »
In Alaska, women's suffrage passed in 1913—seven years prior to the 19th Amendment—and antidiscrimination legislation passed nearly 20 years prior to the major national civil rights bills of the 1960s. In the 1940s, Elizabeth Peratrovich—a Tlingit woman who was Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood—led the charge to end discrimination against Alaska Natives.
Locations:Alagnak Wild River, Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Denali National Park & Preserve, Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Katmai National Park & Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve, Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preservemore »
Former President, Jimmy Carter, offers a sentimental introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Alaska Park Science and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).
Locations:Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park
Voices of the Wilderness Traveling Art Exhibit is a collection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, poetry, and other works inspired by Alaska’s wilderness.
Locations:Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
Offices:Wild and Scenic Rivers Program
Frigid Crags and Boreal Mountain form the Gates of the Arctic, the iconic passage to the Gates of the Arctic National Park, as described by Robert Marshall.
Locations:Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve
Offices:Wilderness Stewardship
Bob Marshall’s explorations and writing promoted the Central Brooks Range as a place of special beauty and solitude and served as major inspiration to establish Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve 40 years after his premature death.
Locations:Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates Of The Arctic National Park & Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, Noatak National Preserve
Indigenous place names are rich ethnographic and historical resources. Many of them refer to activities that regularly took place at the site; others tell of historical events that occurred there. These names have been replaced by English names on modern maps; this article discusses efforts to document these names into the future.
