Fifty years ago today the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was signed by Pres. Nixon in what was the most consequential U.S. action of the century for Alaska. (Yes, even over statehood.) Agree or disagree with the actual act, it’s ripple effects for the whole...
Continuing to build on the first week of the Alaska Native and American Heritage Month Challenge, this week is a bit more focused on Native/Indigenous history and terminology. Honestly, these are the ones I probably get asked about the most, but end up correcting the...
You know the “traditional” story of Thanksgiving? Where the Native people brought food and shared and the settlers survived and everyone celebrated? Besides the gross inaccuracy of the common legend, what if you knew that the very tribe that helped those...
The history of Alaska Native voting is difficult, but important to know Nearly the moment colonization began in Alaska, the Alaska Native struggle out of political oppression also began. Even before the Russian “sale” of Alaska to the United States was...
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