ALASKA

Alaska is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun for the fact that the sun does not set in
the northernmost portion of Alaska for more than two months during the summer. In
Alaska, the words that are used to greet and inform using their native languages are
Dunilggux, chin'an gheli (Welcome, thanks for coming),  Q'u, q'u yet dahdi nuntghesht'ih
yida. (Goodbye, see you later.), Cama-the! (Hello!). In addition, most of the people in
Alaska used the Eskimo kiss, which involves brushing the tips of two people's noses
together between colleagues and relatives. It is an ancestral native greeting known as
kunik. Further, when elders nod their heads, it means they have heard what is being
said, and if they lift their brows, it means they agree. They may furrow their brow to
suggest that they disagree with what is being stated, and they may sigh to express
boredom. When they keep their arms to their bodies, they are suggesting that they wish
to keep a safe distance from the other person, and when they avoid eye contact, they
are expressing respect for the other person. Moreover, even though the word "Eskimo"
was formerly extensively used in Alaska to refer to the world's Inuit and Yupik people,
many Alaska Natives today reject it as a colonial moniker imposed by non-indigenous
people. Original Alaskans, such as Inupiaq and Yupik, are increasingly wanting to be
addressed by their native names. Inuit has supplanted Eskimo as the favored term
throughout Alaska and the Arctic. 

References:

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/alaska/crazy-laws-in-ak/ 
Peterson, C. (2020)

https://geriatrics.stanford.edu/ethnomed/alaskan/assesment/communication.html 
VJ Periyakoil, MD. (2021)

https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit_or_eskimo.php 
Kaplan, L. (n.d)

https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/research/hello_goodbye.php
Alaska Native Language Center. (n.d)

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-alaska.html
Bergevin, K. (2018)