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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785872103321

Autore

Case David S

Titolo

Alaska natives and American laws [[electronic resource] /] / written by David S. Case and David A. Voluck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, AK, : University of Alaska Press, c2012

ISBN

1-60223-176-1

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VoluckDavid A (David Avraham)

Disciplina

342.79808/72

Soggetti

Alaska Natives - Legal status, laws, etc

Alaska Natives - Government relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The federal relationship to alaska natives -- Aboriginal title -- Reservations -- Native allotments and townsites -- ANCSA: the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- History of native services in Alaska -- Native entitlement to services -- Subsistence in Alaska -- Modern Alaska native governments and organizations -- Sovereignty: the Alaska native claims to self-government.

Sommario/riassunto

Now in its third edition, Alaska Natives and American Laws is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering 1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations of the often-tangled history of policy and law as applied to Alaska's first peoples. Divided conceptually into four broad themes of indigenous rights to land, subsistence, services, and sovereignty, the book offers a thorough and balanced analysis of the evolution of these rights in the forty-ninth state. This third edition brings the volume fu.