How they work together is they try to bring Alaska close. They developed sophisticated ways to deal with the challenging climate and environment, and cultures rooted in the place. Historic groups have been defined by their languages which belong to several major language families. The Russians began to trade with Alaska Natives, especially when they learned the quality of their furs. Some natives don’t like each others, but they work together. They work hard to get money, they also give out PFD’s to the native people. American Indians and Alaska Natives were self-governing people who thrived in North America long before Western Europeans came to the continent and Russians to the land that is now Alaska. American Indians, Alaska Natives are culturally diverse. Inupiats settled the Arctic coasts from the Chukchi Sea as far east as Greenland. In interior Alaska, along the Yukon and Tanana rivers, live Athabascan Indians; their link to the Navajo and Apache of Arizona and New Mexico is evident in the similarity of their …show more content…
They go to Bristol Bay to get money off of commercial fishing, and if the oil was low we wouldn't have any money for it right now even fishing. By World War 2 The attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, would bring the United States into the war, but it also raised a concern that the U.S. Territory of Alaska was vulnerable to Japanese attack. Overland travel by car, truck, or train between the United States and Alaska through northwestern Canada was not possible. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was to build the pioneer road, with Army engineering units and contractors furnished and directed by the PRA. Initially, the Army divided the 1,500-mile project into five segments, with PRA contractors responsible for the portion from Whitehorse to Big Delta, about 560 miles. With so many soldiers needed to fight the war in the European and Pacific theaters of operation, the U.S. Army was in need of men for their half of the