Alaska "Natives" - Sourdoughs vs. ???

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About ten years ago, while attending a hockey game in Anchorage, Alaska, I was talking with a gentleman seated next to me, and he explained that he was a "real" Alaska native, as opposed to a Sourdough, who are merely pretenders. Today in Sarah Palin's Farewell (hey it was ON - I didn't select it) in Fairbanks, she was extolling Fairbanks' virtues and she said, "Up here you can tell the < blah blahs > from the Sourdoughs."

 

Help me out. Who are the "other" Alaska natives?

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About ten years ago, while attending a hockey game in Anchorage, Alaska, I was talking with a gentleman seated next to me, and he explained that he was a "real" Alaska native, as opposed to a Sourdough, who are merely pretenders. Today in Sarah Palin's Farewell (hey it was ON - I didn't select it) in Fairbanks, she was extolling Fairbanks' virtues and she said, "Up here you can tell the < blah blahs > from the Sourdoughs."

 

Help me out. Who are the "other" Alaska natives?

 

Alaskans call the indigenous peoples "natives." That's the Eskimos, Athabascans, Aleuts, Thlingits and other American Indian tribes. The "sourdoughs" are the prospectors and other early immigrants to Alaska from the lower 48 and other countries.