Alaska: Alaska Native Politics Since The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Alaska: Alaska Native Politics Since The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Roy M. Huhndorf and Shari M. Huhndorf, 2011   In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the largest indigenous land claims settlement in U.S history. Intended to resolve disputes over land and to spur economic development, ANCSA remained silent on issues of indigenous governance, or tribal sovereignty, as well as on subsistence rights, a particularly urgent issue because many Alaska...

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