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Link to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Alaska State Library, Winter and Pond Collection, PCA 87-1050. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE ALASKA STATE LIBRARY. Alaska Natives were legally prevented from establishing mining claims under the terms of the mining act. As this photograph indicates, there were other barriers preventing or discouraging Alaska Natives from participating in the establishment of the social and economic structures of modern Alaska.

"What Rights To Land Have the Alaska Natives?: The Primary Issue" By William L. Hensley, May 1966 -- With a new May 2001 introduction by the author.
The Founding and Formation of the Northwest Alaska Native Association, by William L. Hensley, March 28, 2000. A letter on the formation of NANA.
AFN IMPLEMENTATION STUDY, Proposals to the United States Congress to implement recommendations of the Alaska Natives Commission pursuant to P.L. 104-270, Alaska Federation Of Natives, December 1999. [From the earliest days of the Alaska Federation of Natives there has been a continued effort to advocate better cooperation and support by the state and Federal governments for Alaska Native communities. Historically there has been much better success with the Federal government. The following recommendations are another effort to move further from studies to action on the many social and governmental issues of rural Alaska. ...Paul Ongtooguk]
Native Ways of Knowing: Experiences, Influences and Transitions of Tlingit Women Becoming Leaders a Master's Thesis by Barbara Fleek member of the Raven Moiety, Dry Bay Kwaan L’uknax.adi (Coho) Clan, Xixch’ hit (Frog House).
COMMISSION ON RURAL GOVERNANCE & EMPOWERMENT: Find out about Alaska's COMMISSION ON RURAL GOVERNANCE & EMPOWERMENT and read Rural Governance Commission Final Report - June 30, 1999
"Chapter 3. Indians and Rockefellers: the Durable Cord," from Up For Grabs, Daniel Jack Chasan, Madrona Publishers, Inc., 1977. " Special rights, special interest groups - these are only the milder criticisms applied when Native Americans, including Alaska Natives, assert traditional rights based on Federal Indian Law. Daniel Jack Chasan, better than any other writer I am aware of, captures why these issues strike many as somehow just not right. Read the selection carefully and then try to write why you agree or disagree with any portion of it. Leave both overnight and then read the selection and your written response again. Note especially what you make of the Rockefeller - Indian property rights argument and why you think they are similiar or differ. I don't expect this exercise will change many minds one way or another but it might help to elevate the level of discussion. Given the level of the discussion, this is no small thing."
"ANCSA-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS," Kornelia Grabinska, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., March 1983, From Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., Interior Region Post ANCSA, Impact Analysis.
Group Wants Only ‘Genuine’ Natives, Paul Ongtooguk, Tundra Times (1990). Article in response to a slide show and presentation on ANWR - the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska and oil development, environmental concerns, the view of Alaska Natives.
Conclusions and Recommendations of the U.N. Experts Seminar on Indigenous Land Rights and Claims, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, March 24-28, 1996
Nunavut Government Structure and Political Development
List of Federally recognized Native tribes - this is not an official Bureau of Indian Affairs website - all public BIA websites are offline due to litigation against the BIA. There is a different list - of UNrecognized tribes here. (Recognized in this context means the Federal government acknowledges these as the governments which represent the Native peoples of these communities.)
Articles and other material by and about Roy Peratrovich and Elizabeth Peratrovich
The Alaska Native Brotherhood was the first Alaska Native Organization to formally press on the issue of granting Alaska Natives citizenship. It seems unfortunate in retrospect the organization adopted a model of cultural assimilation as the best means to move forward. An obvious counter would be the Japanese or Koreans who felt no need to give up their languages and cultures in order to succeed in a modern and technological society. The important history of the organization is well represented by on going work of John Hope. ...Paul Ongtooguk
Sitnasuak Native Corporation is one of the larger village corporations created as a part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. It has been a profitable corporation and continues to invest in community of Nome while providing a small dividend for shareholders. It has been especially significant in providing jobs, economic development, and a positive identity for Alaska Natives in a community where this has not always been the case. This site has an excellent introduction to the work and background of some of the best ivory carvers in Alaska. Ivory carving continues to be an important part of many lives and a significant part of the economy of many Alaska Natives and communities. ...Paul Ongtooguk
"Berger Launches ANCSA Hearings: Focus on Native Sovereignty," The Arctic Policy Review, June 1984.
The Eskimo and the Land: Ownership and Utilization, Dorothy Jean Ray, paper presented at the Thirteenth Alaskan Science Conference, August 25, 1962, Juneau, Alaska.
THE NATIVE BROTHERHOODS: MODERN INTERTRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS ON THE NORTHWEST COAST, By Philip Drucker,
Smithsonian Institution Bureau Of American Ethnology, Bulletin 168, United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1958
TREATY WITH RUSSIA (1867)
Excerpt from Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences "American Indians, Blacks, Chicanos, and Puerto Ricans" (1981)