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North Kingstown, Rhode Island was the home of U.S. Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point. The NAS was the main shipping facility for the Lend-Lease Program and a major naval base for both ships and airplanes. It was also the site of the first “quonset hut”, a lightweight military building that was easy to manufacture and assemble. The Navy also established Camp Endicott at Davisville, North Kingstown, as the main training facility for Navy Construction Batallions (Seabees).
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Hanford Downwinders: Trisha Thompson Pritikin
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Trisha Pritikin is a lawyer, writer, mother, downwinder, and most of all, an ardent activist. She served on the Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee (HHES), run by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). She has demanded accountability from federal agencies addressing civilian downwinder issues, including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The National Academy of Science (NAS), and the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center
- Type: Place
The Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center is an educational outreach building, supported by St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, SD. Akta Lakota means “honor the people” in the Lakota dialect. The museum has welcomed thousands of people since opening its doors in 1991 and sits on the banks of the mighty Missouri River. It tells the story of the Lakota people beginning prior to European colonization and ending with contemporary issues facing tribes today.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
What we are learning from Nataeł Na’
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Read the abstract and link to a paper on the findings from an archaeological site that may increase understanding of human migration from the Bering Land Bridge: White, J. T., A. Henry, S. Kuehn, M. G. Loso, and J. T. Rasic. 2022. Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’. Quaternary International.
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The following two publications assess different methods for determining burn severity at a landscape scale. The case study, Assessing Wildfire Burn Severity and Its Relationship with Environmental Factors: A Case Study in Interior Alaska Boreal Forest, reviews various remote sensing methods for assessing burn severity at Shovel Creek and Nugget Creek fire in Fairbanks. The second article utilizes composite landsat imagery to assess burn severity in boreal forests of NA.
Pipestone National Monument
Struck By The Ree
- Type: Person
Ihanktonwan Nakota (Yankton Sioux) Chief Struck By The Ree played an influential role in saving the pipestone quarries in the face of rapid change and loss. His lifelong attempts to cultivate peace during times of violence and distrust were honored by three U.S. presidents. Learn more about this man who is central to the history of Pipestone National Monument.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
Howard Rummel
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Howard Rummel served in the Navy on NAS Attu from Sept 1944 – Jan 1946.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Geolinguistic Evidence of Dene Presence at High-water Levels of Glacial Lake Atna.
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Kari (2019) introduces a theory of Na-Dene prehistory, "the Proto-Dene Lex Loci" that derives from Lexware dictionary files and cumulative place name for seven adjacent Alaska Dene languages. To investigate Dene prehistory in the Copper River and circum–Glacial Lake Atna (GLA) region, we discuss a selection of 67 Dene place names from seven Dene languages in four Alaska river basins.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Nic'anilen Na': A Partnership in Conservation, Stewardship, and Education.
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Nic anilen Na Partnerships WISE