Alaska Native

noun

variants or less commonly Alaskan Native or Alaska native or Alaskan native

plural Alaska Natives also Alaskan Natives or Alaska natives or Alaskan natives

: a member of any of the Indigenous arctic peoples of the area that is now Alaska

For thousands of years Alaska Natives have lived throughout the vast land that became the 49th state.

—nativefederation.org

… only three of the 7,046 enrolled undergraduate students identified as American Indian or Alaskan Native.

—Sorsha Khitikian

called also Native Alaskan

Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above