Probably Sara Palin...she is everywhere all the time 24/7! :(

The correct answer is ... Oliver Amouak. :) +5

Oliver Amouak "Ritchey, Brenda. Know the Happy Face : Biography of Oliver Amouak, World Famous Eskimo Auburn, Wash. : Alaska Lines and Stories Kept Alive [A.L.A.S.K.A.], 1997) 216 pp. The granddaughter of the face behind the Alaska Airlines logo reveals the family's identity, traditions, and legacy through the story of her grandfather's life." Source and further information: http://www.hbreads.org/kfnah.html Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_liveries_and_logos "THE FACE OF ALASKA: Alaskan Native American shaman Greywolf has traveled the world sharing his healing techniques. A member of the Inupiat tribe, Greywolf is the son of Oliver Amouak (pictured below), who appears as the famous “happy face” that adorns the tail of Alaskan Airlines’ planes." Source and further information: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=31442 "Opinions vary. The family of Oliver Amouak claim it is a portrait of (or inspired by) him. Others say it is fictitious or a composite. One of four different tail designs introduced in the early 1970s, it's the only one which survives. It was revised to have a more 'smiley' appearance some time later, and also had sunglasses for a short time when Alaska expanded services to California (looked a bit like Roy Orbison then). For the record the original 'Alaskana' tails were: ESKIMO ALASKA (Blue Eskimo face) - Oliver Amouak ? INDIAN ALASKA (Green Totem pole figure) RUSSIAN ALASKA (Purple Onion-domed building) GOLD RUSH ALASKA (Red Prospector)" Source and further information: http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-61810.html "The Eskimo featured on the tail of many of Alaska Airlines' planes may be Oliver Amouak, although there is some debate about his identity. His family claims it was him, anyway. For a story of how that picture was decided upon, see this account by the creative director who was responsible for the ad campaign that first used the Eskimo picture." Source and further information: http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=45130 " "No," he said. "I'll quit today rather than go out there tomorrow with nothing. You have got to give me something, now. Right now. I don't give a damn what it is. I don't care if you put that on the damned planes, but I want it now!". The that to which he drunkenly referred was a photograph of an Eskimo taken by a famous pair of NW photographers, Bob and Ira Spring. That blue photo, an artistic presentation known in the trade as a "dropout," had been hanging on Bert's office wall for years. Hanging there in front of all of us, right in plain sight. I whooped so loudly that Bert dropped his whiskey glass, then ducked as I came over the desk at him. I think he thought it was an attack. I pulled the framed photograph off the wall and left his office cheering like a fan whose team just scored the winning touchdown with one second to go." Source and further information: http://oregonmag.com/MyEskimo.htm

It is the face of Alaskan Native American Shaman Greywolf . The old eskimo logo did not have a smile and it was later changed into a smiling eskimo.