A dangerous idea : the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for Indigenous rights / Peter Metcalfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metcalfe, Peter, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alaska Natives--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Alaska Natives.

Alaska Natives--Land tenure--History--20th century.

Alaska Natives--Government relations--History--20th century.

Alaska Natives--Claims--History--20th century.

Alaska--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Alaska.

Alaska Native Brotherhood--History.

Alaska Native Brotherhood.

United States. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

United States.

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (United States).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alaska Natives, securing unheard-of victories in a contentious time. Their unified work and legal prowess propelled the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, one of the biggest claim settlements in United States history. A dangerous idea tells an overlooked but powerful story of Alaska Natives fighting for their rights under American law and details one of the rare successes for Native Americans in their nearly two-hundred-year effort to define and protect their rights"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Aboriginal Title in Alaska

The Alaska Native Brotherhood

Suing the Government

Reservations in Alaska

A Bad Time for Indians

The Extinguishment Legislation

Statehood or Native Claims

Shaping Alaska.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602232402

1602232407

OCLC:

908552343