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In order to assess attitudes of Alaska Native children toward the elderly and compare these attitudes to those of children in the mainland United States, the Semantic Differential subtest of the CATE (Children's Attitudes Toward the Elderly) was administered to the total population offifth and sixth grade Native Alaskan children in the Lake and Peninsula District of Alaska (n = 39) and AO fifth and Sixth grade children randomly selected from three schools in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. T statistics were used to compare scores on the total SD and individual items for the concept OLD and YOUNG PEOPLE in each culture. Analysis of variance methods were used to compare scores on the individual items and total score of the scale between the two cultures. The results indicate that Alaska Native children rated young people more positively than old, and also as healthier and happier. In comparison with the children in the D.C. area, the Native Alaska children rated the concept OLD PEOPLE more negatively in general and as less good, wonderful, pretty, friendly and helpful than children in the mainland. The conclusion was reached that negative attitudes toward the elderly may be more of a universal to the human experience than a phenomenon unique to the culture of the mainland United States. Then again, society's attitude toward the old is deeply ambivalent (de Beauvoir, 1973:9). At least in the mainland United States research has documented the ambivalence of society's attitudes toward the old. According to McTavish (1971), the literature suggests a somewhat central, overall personal rejection or prejudice toward old people. Generally, the results of studies exploring attitudes toward the old and the aging process support the idea that being old in the continental United States is per
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