Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century

Ramona Ellen Skinner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317732075
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book explores the application of federal Indian policy to Alaska Natives in the 20th century, a process driven by the federal government's desire to acquire Indian land. Twentieth century Indian policy, as applied in Alaska, has oscillated between encouraging the privatization of land and assimilation of Native Alaskans into the dominant society, and allowing for Native autonomy and self-government. The Alaska Reorganization Act of 1936, better known as the Alaska Native New Deal, promoted Native self-government through constitutions and native self-sufficiency through corporations within geographic limits of designated reservations. In Alaska, the federal government's termination policy extended state jurisdiction over Native peoples after World War Two. A new policy of self-determination was initiated by the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. With this act, 40 million acres were conveyed to newly created Native corporations. Alaska Natives would achieve self-determination by participation in corporate decisions. This history of the legislation and implementation of federal Indian policy in Alaska explores the tensions and reversals expressed through successive legislative acts, and focuses upon the implications of this policy for Native Alaskans.

Index

1. aboriginal title, 14-16, 81, 83, 114, 121
2. Act of March 3, 1819, 13
3. Act of March 3, 1871, 20
4. Ahtna Incorporated, 87
5. Akiachak, 118
6. Aktuan, 50
7. Alaska Allotment Act of 1906, 6, 9, 22
8. Alaska Federation of Natives, 83, 86, 119
9. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980, 93
10. Alaska Native Brotherhood, 33, 35, 38-39, 82
11. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 41-42, 58, 66-67, 73, 86-87, 89, 90-94, 101-108, 113, 116-117, 120-121
12. Alaska Native Coalition, 118
13. Alaska Native Fund, 86
14. Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971, 3, 6, 8
15. Alaska Natives, 6, 8, 9, 29, 33-34, 37-38, 40, 48-49, 51, 55, 57, 66, 81, 84, 91-93, 102-103, 105-108, 114, 117-118
16. Alaska Reorganization Act, 7, 9, 37-39, 47-49, 52-53, 57, 115, 120
17. Alaska Statehood Act, 81
18. Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government (1995), 117
19. Aleut Corporation, 87
20. Aleuts, 51, 91
21. American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, 68
22. Arizona, 49
23. Arctic, 50-51
24. Arctic Slope, 83, 85
25. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, 87
26. Aspinall, Wayne, 85
27. Athabascan, 50
28. Australia, 73

1. Baranov, Alexsander, 35
2. Barrow, 55-56
3. Berger, Thomas R., 101
4. Bering Straits Native Corporation, 87
5. Board of Indian Commissioners, 21
6. Bristol Bay ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• I. Introduction
• II. Nineteenth-Century Indian Policy
• III. Alaska Native New Deal
• IV. Reservations Under the Alaska Native New Deal
• V. Native Self-Determination
• VI. Alaska Native Settlement
• VII. 1991 Amendments
• VIII. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index