Alaska Natives who express a strong ethnic identity identify more strongly with clans they belong to than with their home communities, two researchers said Monday, sharing their preliminary findings at a meeting at the public library.
Researchers Caitlin Stern and Jessie Barker said the findings weren’t especially surprising. George Thornton Emmons, who studied Tlingit culture in the 1800s found that villages were aggregations of clans that happened to live together, Stern said.
Stern and Barker…
