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PublisherUniversity of Alaska Press
ISBN-101889963240
ISBN-139781889963242
eBay Product ID (ePID)1914936
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Book TitleTake My Land, Take My Life : The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims 1960-1971
Number of Pages690 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicEconomic History, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorDonald Craig Mitchell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight43.1 Oz
Item Length9.9 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-027296
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal346.79804/32/089971
Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Alaska Federation of Natives Chapter 2: Land Freeze Chapter 3: Nineteen Sixty-Nine Chapter 4: Nineteen Seventy Chapter 5: ANCSA Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn Take My Land, Take My Life , Mitchell concludes the story of the 134-year history of the U.S. government's relations with Alaska's Native people begun in Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959 . The culmination of that tale occurred in 1971 when Congress enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. ANCSA authorized Alaska Natives to be paid $962.5 million and to be conveyed title to 44 million acres of land. Though highly controversial, ANCSA remains the most generous settlement of aboriginal land claims in the nation's history. Mitchell's insightful, exhaustively researched work also describes the political history during the first decade of Alaska statehood, from the rise of Native organizations such as the Alaska Federation of Natives to the battles for power in the subcommittees of Congress. Insightful and drawn from years of painstaking research of primary source materials, Sold American and Take My Land, Take My Life are an indispensable resource for readers who are interested in the history of the nation's largest state and of the federal government's involvement with Alaska's indigenous peoples., The political, cultural, and socioeconomic struggles of Alaska's Native peoples have a long and difficult history of local, national, and even international import. In two volumes, Donald Craig Mitchell offers a new level of historical detail in this readable account of the political and legal dimensions of Alaska Native land claims through 1971. Sold American is an account of the history of the federal government's relationship with Alaska's Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut peoples, from the United States' purchase of Alaska from the czar of Russia in 1867 to Alaska statehood in 1959. Mitchell describes how, from eighteenth-century the arrival of Russian sea otter hunters in the Aleutian Islands to the present day, Alaska Natives have participated in the efforts of non-Natives to turn Alaska's bountiful natural resources into dollars, and documents how Alaska Natives, non-Natives, and the society they jointly forged have been changed because of this process. Take My Land, Take My Life concludes thatstory by describing the events that in 1971 resulted in Congress's enactment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Together, these volumes interpret a 134-year history of relations between the federal and state governments and Alaska Natives. Mitchell's story of the rise of new forms of Alaska Native political leadership culminates in the territorial and monetary settlement that, while highly controversial, has provided crucial lessons and precedents for indigenous legal and political actions world wide. Particularly intriguing from his painstaking research in Congressional records are Mitchell's portraits of important players in the Alaska Federation of Natives and the federal government asthey battle for power in subcommittees of Congress. Detailed and provocative, Mitchell', In Take My Land, Take My Life , Mitchell concludes the story of the 134-year history of the U.S. government's relations with Alaska's Native people begun in Sold American:The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959 . The culmination of that tale occurred in 1971 when Congress enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. ANCSA authorized Alaska Natives to be paid $962.5 million and to be conveyed title to 44 million acres of land. Though highly controversial, ANCSA remains the most generous settlement of aboriginal land claims in the nation's history. Mitchell's insightful, exhaustively researched work also describes the political history during the first decade of Alaska statehood, from the rise of Native organizations such as the Alaska Federation of Natives to the battles for power in the subcommittees of Congress. Insightful and drawn from years of painstaking research of primary source materials, Sold American and Take My Land, Take My Life are an indispensable resource for readers who are interested in the history of the nation's largest state and of the federal government's involvement with Alaska's indigenous peoples.
LC Classification NumberKFA1705
