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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Case, David S.

Contributor:

Voluck, David A. (David Avraham)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alaska Natives--Legal status, laws, etc.

Alaska Natives.

Alaska Natives--Government relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60223-176-1

OCLC:

893740353