Do the older generation of Alaskan citizens speak with Russian accents?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at
7:31 am
Nice answer Kelly but remember Alaska was Russian territory before America purchased it.
Nice point John, I had never though of that.
Thanks again kelley I need to start paying more attention to the professors, I thought Eisenhower bought Alaska in th 50's lol.
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It may have been Russian territory, but how many Russians actually lived there? And how many of them stayed when it was no longer part of their country?
No. I lived in Anchorage for six years, and everyone either had the standard American accent, a Canadian accent, or a slight French accent (if they were Canadian). Obviously, if I ran into any natives they would have a bit of an accent too, because of their native (no pun intended) language, but I never ever ran into anyone who spoke with a Russian accent. They would be Russians, not Alaskans.
Edit: Consider also how many Americans came up to Alaska to seek their fortune. I’m sure "Lower Forty-Eighters" greatly outnumbered whatever other cultures lived there (native or otherwise) starting about the turn of the century.
Edit 2: Also, I quote from Wikipedia: "William H. Seward, the U.S. Secretary of State, negotiated the Alaskan purchase in 1867 for $7.2 million. Alaska was loosely governed by the military for years, and was unoffically a territory of the United States from 1884 on." Even though it wasn’t officially a state until 1959, we were there way before then.
Of course not. There is no one alive today who was born in Russian Alaska.