sentences:  The first academic cultural studies of southwestern Alaska Eskimos were developed only in the late 1940s.This was due in part to a dearth of English-language documentation, as well as competition in the field of other subject areas.American anthropologist Margaret Lantis (1906–2006) published "The Social Culture of the Nunivak Eskimo" in 1946; it was the first complete description of any Alaskan indigenous group.