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Figure 4: Gender composition of the Arctic, 2006
Major Migration Trends in Each Arctic Region
This section reviews past and current migration trends in each Arctic region.
Alaska
Between the time of the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 and the Alaska gold rush in 1897,
the population grew very little. In the first census conducted in 1880, the population of Alaska was
33,426 of which only 430 were white settlers (Sandberg, 2013). The discovery of gold in Alaska
Heleniak