ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT:

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 PREPARED BY

Suzanne Sharp
Institute of Social and Economic Research

WITH ASSISTANCE FROM
Irene Rowan
Jo Antonson

 

Prepared for ANCSA @ 40 Committee
With support from the Institute of Social and Economic Research

 

Other contributors
Paul Ongtooguk, Gordon Pullar, and Willie Templeton

 

April 2011

 

Institute of Social and Economic Research
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508

Bibliography

Primary ANCSA Resources

ISER prepared this list of books, reports, and other resources on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for the ANCSA @ 40 Committee. It is the most comprehensive such list we are aware of, but there are likely additional resources yet to be identified. Some of these resources are now out of print and may be available at used bookstores or at libraries. More recent publications can be obtained from the publishers or at bookstores. You can also find resources on websites, as noted in the citations.

Online Readings

Alaska Natives Commission. (1994). Final Report, Volume 1. Anchorage: Joint Federal-State Commission on Policies and Program Affecting Alaska Natives. Online: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/rlinks/natives/ak_natives_commission.html

Anders, G. C., and K. Anders. (1987). Incompatible Goals in Unconventional Organizations: The Politics of Alaska Native Corporations. In T. Lane (Ed.), Developing America's Northern Frontier.  Lanham: University Press of America. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/t_lane/IncompatibleGoals.htm

Arnold, R. D. (1978). Alaska Native Land Claims. Anchorage:  Alaska Native Foundation.

Describes historical land claims of Alaska Natives and the politics of the Native land claims. Out of print. Chapters 10-23 available online:  http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/landclaims/LandClaimsTOC.htm

Berger, T. R. (1985). Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission. New York, NY, Wang & Hill.

Effects of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act on Alaska Native villages with quotes on Alaska Native perspectives gathered from throughout Alaska. Selected text available online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/vlgjour.htm  

Coile, Z. (2005, August 29). Arctic Oil: Oil is the lifeblood of Alaska, with residents ready to drill. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved from: http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-08-29/news/17385400_1_prudhoe-bay-oil-production-permanent-fund/4

Emil Notti's Speech at Tacoma: Before Small Tribes of Western Washington Delivered February 13, 1970. (1970, February 13). Tundra Times, pp. 2. Retrieved from www.tuzzy.org

General Agreement Among Native Leaders with Emil Notti. (1970, February 13). Tundra Times, pp. 1. Retrieved from www.tuzzy.org

Grabinska, K. (1983). ANCSA Related Side Effects. Fairbanks: Tanana Chiefs Conference. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/tcc/tcc_ancsa.htm#top

Hensley, W. (1966, May). What Rights to Land Have the Alaska Natives? The Primary Question. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/WLH/WLH66_1.htm

Hensley, W. (1969, November). Why the Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Fairbanks. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/w_hensley.htm

Goldsmith, S., Angvik, J., & Howe, L. (2004, May). The Status of Alaska Natives Report 2004, Volumes 1-3. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage, Institute of Social and Economic Research. Retrieved from: http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Home/ResearchAreas/statusaknatives.htm

Mallot, B. I. One Day in the Life of a Native Corporate Leader, Part 1. Alaska Native News, (1985, September). Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/bmallot.htm

Mallot, B. I. One Day in the Life of a Native Chief Executive, Part II. Alaska Native News. Vol. 2: 22. (1985, October). Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/articles/mallot1985/ChiefExec.htm.

          Article featuring Byron Mallott's day as an executive officer at Sealaska Corporation. Alaska Native News magazine out of print.

McNabb, S. (1992). Native Claims in Alaska: A Twenty-year Review. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 16 (1-2): 85-95. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/mcnabb/s_mcnabb.htm

Mitchell, D.C., (1997). Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie: Statutory Construction or Judicial Usurpation? Why History Counts. Alaska Law Review. 14 Alaska L. Rev. 353. Retrieved from: http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?14+Alaska+L.+Rev.+353

President Richard M Nixon. Special Message to the Congress on Indian Affairs.  July 8, 1970. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA.  Retrieved from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2573

Roderick, L., Ed. (2008). Do Alaska Native People Get Free Medical Care: And other frequently asked questions about Alaska Native issues and cultures. Anchorage: University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University. Retrieved from http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/books-of-the-year/year08-09/upload/Book108-09.pdf

Thomas, M. E. (1986). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Conflict and Controversy. Polar Record, 23 (142): 27-36. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/ARTICLES/mthomas/ANCSA_Conflict.htm

Thomas, M. E. (1988). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: An Update. Polar Record, 24 (151): 328-329.  Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/ARTICLES/mthomas/ANCSA_Update.htm

U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. (1969). Hearings before the subcommittee on Indian Affairs, H.R. 13142, H.R. 10193, and H.R. 14212, 91^st Congress, 1^st sess., 17, 18 October. Statement of John Borbridge, President and General Manager, Central Council of Tlingit Indians of Alaska (spoken). Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/testimony/ancsa_hearings/j_borbridge_s.html

U.S. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. (1969). Hearings before the subcommittee on Indian Affairs, H.R. 13142, H.R. 10193, and H.R. 14212, 91^st Congress, 1^st sess., 17, 18 October. “Statement of Emil Notti, President, Alaska Federation of Natives (spoken).” Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/testimony/ancsa_hearings/e_notti_s.html

Worl, R. (1985, April). 1991: Group Rights Versus Individual Rights, Publishers’ Message, Alaska Native News, 3: 2. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/worl2.html#top

Worl, R. (1985, July). "Loss of Native Lands, Publishers Message." Alaska Native News, 3: 2. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/worl1.html#top

 

ANCSA Books

Armstrong, T., G. Roger, and G. Rowley. (1978). The Circumpolar North. London, Great Britain: Hethuen.

Arnold, J. H. (2000). History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press.

Berger, T. (1977). Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland: The Report of the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. Vol. 1. Toronto, Canada: James Lorimer and Co.

          A historic study of the cultural, economic, and environmental assessment of the region including Native claims

Berger, T. (1991). A Long and Terrible Shadow: White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

          Critique of the history of white Europeans and Native Americans.

Berkhofer, R. (1978). The White Man's Indian. New York: Vintage Books.

Berry, M. C. (1975). The Alaska Pipeline: The Politics of Oil and Native Land Claims. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

          Description of interactions between the oil companies, leaders of Alaska Federation of Natives and the government, and how each influenced the nature of the Act. Available on Alaskool.

Bigjim, F. S. (1974). Letter to Howard: An Interpretation of the Alaska Native Land Claims. Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University Press.

          Early concerns about the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act written as letters to the editor from fictional characters.

Carlo, P. (1978). Nulato: An Indian Life on the Yukon. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Case, D. S. (1978). The Special Relationship of Alaska Natives to the Federal Government. Anchorage: Alaska Native Foundation.

Case, D. S. (1983). Sitnasuak and the 1991 Issues. Fairbanks: University of Alaska.

Case, D. S. (1984). Alaska Natives and American Laws. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

          A major work on the legal status of Alaska Natives.

Case, D. S. (2001). Alaska Natives and Alaska Laws, 2nd ed. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Case, D. S., and D. A. Voluck . (2002). Alaska Natives and American Laws. Anchorage: University of Alaska Press.

Chance, N. (1966). The Eskimo of North Alaska. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Chasan, D. J. (1971). Klondike 70: The Alaska Oil Boom. New York: Praeger.

          An account of the social and political circumstances in Alaska just prior to the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Out of print but available on Alaskool.

Cornell, S. (1988). The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cornwell, P. G. and Gerald McBeath. (1982). Alaska's Rural Development. Boulder: Westview Press.

          A series of conference papers on economic and social impact of ANCSA in rural Alaska. Out of print but available on Alaskool.

Davis, N. Y. (1978). Historical Indicators of Alaska Native Culture Change. Springfield: National Technical Information Service.

Davis, N. Y. (1979). Social Implications of ANCSA, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 1974-1979: Policy Recommendations. Anchorage: Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska.

DeJong, D. H. (1993). Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education. Golden: North American Press.

Deloria, V. (1971). Of Utmost Good Faith. New York: Bantam Books.

Deloria, V., and C. M. Lytle, Clifford. (1983). American Indians, American Justice. Austin: University of Texas, Austin.

French, S. (1972). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Montreal, Canada: The Arctic Institute of North America.

Gaffney, M. (1981). Alaska Native Rural Development: A Specific Perspective and a Special Case. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, Alaska Native Studies Program.

Gallagher, H. G. (1974). Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power. New York: Putnam & Sons.

          Biography of Charles Edwardsen Jr., a political leader from the Arctic Slope of Alaska.

Getches, D. H. (1977). Law and Alaska Native Education. Fairbanks, AK, Center for Northern Educational Research, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Getches, D. H., D. M. Rosenfelt, & Charles F. Wilkenson. (1979). Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials. St. Paul: West Publishing Company.

          A legal analysis of ANCSA indicates that the Act may well be a revival of termination policy. The history of Federal Indian policy is described in a legal context for ANCSA.

Goldschmidt, W. R. & T.H. Haas. (1998). Haa Aani, Our Land: Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Harring, S. L. (1994). Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and United States Law in the Nineteenth Century.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Haycox, S. (2002). Alaska: An American Colony. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Jones, D. (1974). The Urban Native Encounters: The Social Service System. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Kelly, L. (1983). The Assault on Assimilation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Langdon, S. (1987). The Native People of Alaska. Anchorage: Greatland Graphics.

Mattiessen, P. (1992). Indian Country. New York: Penguin.

McBeath, G. A. & Thomas A. Morehouse. (1980). The Dynamics of Alaska Self Government. Lanham: University Press of America.

          Study that examines Alaska Native politics in the modern period with an emphasis on the Arctic Slope region.

McCarty, T. L. (2001). A Place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

McClanahan, A. J. (2000). Growing Up Native in Alaska. Anchorage: The CIRI Foundation.

          Interviews with twenty-seven young Alaska Natives discussing their cultures and traditions and their meaning and relevance in today’s world.

 

McClanahan, A. J. (2001). A Reference in Time: Alaska Native History Day by Day. Anchorage: The CIRI Foundation.

McClanahan, A. J., & H. L. Bissett . (2004). Na'eda. Anchorage: CIRI Foundation.

McClanahan, A. J. (2006). Alaska Native Corporations: Sakuuktugut. Anchorage: CIRI Foundation.

Mitchell, D. C. (1997). Sold American: the Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959: the Army to Statehood. Hanover: Dartmouth College: University Press of New England.       

          An account 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, D.C. (2001). Take My Land - Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

          History of the land claims settlement.

Morgan, L. (1974). And the Land Provides: Alaskan Natives in a Year of Transition. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Morgan, L. (1988). Art and Eskimo Power: The Life and Times of Alaskan Howard Rock. Fairbanks: Epicenter Press.

          Portrayal of Howard Rock, founding editor of the Tundra Times newspaper and the critical role he played in pressing for Alaska Native claims to traditional lands.

Napolean, H. (1975). Politics and Alaska Natives. Department of Education and Center for Northern Educational Research, Juneau: State of Alaska.

Naske, C. M. & H. E. Slotnick. (1987). Alaska: A History of the 49th State, second edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 Paul, F. (2003). Then Fight for it: The Largest Peaceful Redistribution of Wealth in the History of Mankind and the Creation of the North Slope Borough, Bloomington: Trafford Publishing.    

Philip, K. R. (1999). Termination Revisited, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Pratt, K. L., Ed. (2009). Chasing the Dark: Perspectives on Place, History and Alaska Native Land Claims. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Environmental and Cultural Resources Management, ANCSA Office.

Price, M.E. (1973). Law and the American Indian: Readings, Notes and Cases. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Press.

Rogers, G. W., Ed. (1970). Native Organizations and Land Rights as Vehicles for Change. Change in Alaska: People, Petroleum and Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press.     

Skinner, R. E. (1997). Alaska Native Policy in the Twentieth Century. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

Snipp, M. C. (1986). American Indian and Natural Resource Development: Indigenous Peoples' Land, Now Sought After, Has Produced New Indian-White Problems.  American Journal of Economics and Sociology 45(4).    

White, R. (1969). The Roots of Dependency. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

ANCSA Government Reports

Alaska Commission on Rural Governance and Empowerment. (1999). Final Report to the Governor. Juneau: State of Alaska. Online: http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/RGC/RGC_Final_6_99.pdf

Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs. (1986, February 14). Report of the Governor’s Task Force on Federal-State-Tribal Relations. Submitted to Governor Bill Sheffield. Juneau: State of Alaska.

Cohen, Felix S. (1945). Handbook of Federal Indian Law. U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Anchorage, Alaska. (1968). Alaska Natives and the Land. Anchorage, Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

Gsovski, V. (1950). Russian Administration of Alaska and the Status of the Alaska Natives, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Jones, R. S. (1972). Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-203): History and Analysis. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Norris, Frank. (2002). Alaska Subsistence: A National Park Service History. U. S. Department of Interior. Anchorage, AK.

Price, R.  E. (1984, June). Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), ANCSA 1985 Study, June 29, 1984, Draft. Anchorage: U. S. Department of the Interior.

U. S. General Accounting Office. (1983, August 16). Information on Alaska Native Corporations, Report to the Honorable Ted Stevens, United States Senate. (Publication No. GAO/RCED 83-173). Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

U. S. General Accounting Office. (1985). Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, ANCSA 1985 Study. Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

U.S. Senate. (1970). Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1970. Hearings before the committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Calendar No. 926, Report No. 91-925, 91^st Congress, 2^nd sess., 11, June.

U.S. Senate. (1977). Consolidating Alaska Natives Governing Bodies. Hearings before the select committee on Indian Affairs. S. 1920, and S. 2046, 95^th Congress, 1^st sess., 2,3,4,6,7,8, and 9 November.  

U.S. Senate. (1970). Cost Analysis of Alaska Native Lands Bill. Committee Report to the Chairman Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. 91^st Congress, 2^nd sess., 3, April.

 

ANCSA Newspapers/Periodicals

Anders, G. (1983). The Role of Alaska Native Corporations in the Development of Alaska. Development and Change, 14(4).

Anders, G. (1980). Theories of Underdevelopment and the American Indian. Journal of Economic Issues, XIV(3).

Barsh, R. L. (1984). The International Legal Status of Native Alaska. Alaska Native News, 2(4): 35.

Brady, J. (1967). Native Land Claims. Review of Business and Economic Conditions, IV(6).

Branson, D. M. (1979). Square Pegs in Round Holes: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Corporations Under Corporate Law. UCLA Alaska Law Review, 8(2): 103-38.

Bronson, R. M. (1995). Great Documents in American Indian History. Shall We Repeat Indian History in Alaska: Speech to the Annual Meeting of the Indian Rights Association, January 23, 1947.Cambridge: Da Capo Press. 

Burch, E. S., Jr. (1979). Native Claims in Alaska: An Overview.  Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 3(1): 7-30.

Burch, E. S., Jr. (1994). The Inupiat and the Christianization of Arctic, Alaska.  Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 18(1-2): 81-108.

Chance, N. (1964). The Changing Role of Government Among the North Alaskan Eskimo. Arctic Anthropology, 2(2).

Colt, S. (1991). Financial Performance of Native Regional Corporations. Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, XXXVII(2).

Cooley, R. A. (1983). Evolution of Alaska Land Policy. In Morehouse, T., Ed., Alaskan Resources Development: Issues of the 1980s. Boulder: Westview Press: 13-49.

Drucker, P. (1958). The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast. Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 168.

Erwin, A. (1976). The Emergence of Native Alaskan Political Capacity, 1959-1971. Musk Ox, 19: 3-14.

Flanders, N. E. (1989). The Alaska Native Corporation as Conglomerate: The Problem of Profitability. Human Organization, 48(4).

Garber, B. K. (1985). 1991: Balancing Individual and Group Rights After ANCSA. Alaska Native News, 2: 21.

Haycox, S. (1986). William Paul Sr., and the Alaska Voter's Literacy Act of 1925. Alaska History, 2(2).

Hensley, W. (1970). Arctic Development and the Future of Eskimo Societies. Indian Truth, 47: 1-8.

Karpoff, J. M. & E. M. Rice. (1989). Organizational Form, Share Transferability, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the ANCSA Corporations. Journal of Financial Economics, 25.

Karpoff, J. M. & E. M. Rice. (1992). Structure and Performance of Alaska Native Corporations. Contemporary Policy Issues, X(3).

Naske, C. (1991). Ernest Gruening and Alaska Native Claims. Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 82:140-148.

Parfit, M. (1981). Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Magazine, 12: 30-39.

Paul, W. L. (1984, August). We Own the Land: Statement by William L. Paul, Sr. to the AFN Board of Directors, Alaska Federation of Natives' Convention, Fairbanks, Alaska, October 1971. Alaska Native New Magazine, 18.

Snipp, M. C. (1986, April). The Changing Political and Economic Status of American Indians: From Captive Nations to Internal Colonies. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 45(2).

Upicksoun, J. (1984). Why the Arctic Slope Inupiat Said No to ANCSA, Letter to the President of the United States, December 18, 1971 from Joseph Upicksoun, President, Arctic Slope Native Association. Alaska Native News, 2: 16.

Winter, J. A. (1999). Between Worlds: How the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act reshaped the destinies of Alaska's Native people. A Juneau Empire Special Report. Retrieved from http://www.juneauempire.com/

 

ANCSA Records/Reports/Speeches

Alaska Federation of Natives. (1989, January). The AFN Report on the Status of Alaska Natives: A Call for Action. Anchorage: Alaska Federation of Natives.

          A report on the social issues facing Alaska Native communities.

Arnold, R. (1969). Characteristics of the Economy of Village Alaska. Twentieth Alaska Science Conference. College: University of Alaska.

Chance, N. (1969). Directed Change and Northern Peoples: Suggested Changes in Light of Past Experience. Twentieth Alaska Science Conference. College: University of Alaska.

Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. (1985).The Central Council 50 Years: Commemorating the Jurisdictional Act June 19, 1935. Juneau.

Grabinska, K. (1983). History of Events Leading to the Passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Fairbanks: Tanana Chiefs Conference.

Kruse, J. A. (1984). Changes in the Well Being of Alaska Natives Since ANCSA. Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions. Anchorage: University of Alaska, Institute of Social and Economic Research.

Laster, M., Walker, B. (Directors). (1986). The Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act. Teacher’s Guide: Instructional Series. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Office of Instructional Services. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/curriculum/nwabsd_ancsa/acknowledg.htm#top

McDowell Group. (2001). Alaska Native Education Study: A Statewide Study of Alaska Native Values and Opinions Regarding Education in Alaska. Anchorage: First Alaskans Foundation.

Morehouse, T. (1988). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 1991, and Tribal Government. Anchorage: University of Alaska, Institute of Social and Economic Research. ISER Occasional Paper No. 19.

          A historical document introducing ANCSA issues.

Ongtooguk, P. (1986). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Selected Readings. Kotzebue: Northwest Arctic Borough School District.

         

ANCSA Audio-Visual Resources

Andrews. S. (Producer) & J. Creed (Writer). (1988). Our Land, Our Future: The 1991 Amendments to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Parts 1-5. [Television series]. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education. Online http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/media/index.html

Laster, M., Walker, B. (Directors). (1986). The Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act. Teacher’s Guide: Instructional Series, Parts 1-5. [Television series]. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Office of Instructional Services. Online: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/media/index.html

This guide was designed to accompany a five-part series videotapes and collection of Student Readings on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

McPherson, M. K. (1982). The Corporate Whale: ANCSA, The First Ten Years. [Audio recording]. Online: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/ANCSA/TheCorporateWhale/index.html

Eagle, R. & Hodges, C. (Producers). (1987). ANCSA: Caught in the Act: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska. [Television series]. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education, Alaska Native Foundation. Online: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/ANCSA/caught.html.

Six-part video series ranging in length from 14-25 minutes on the initiatives of the Alaska Natives Claims Settlement Act. The series is produced and directed by Carroll Hodge and Ron Eagle.

Williams, Gary (Producer). 1991. ANCSA, Inquiry: A Question of Sovereignty. University of Alaska; Instructional Telecommunications Services and Independent Public Television Inc.

          Discussions by the Alaska Native Review Committee on sovereignty issues of Alaska Native people.

Sykes, J.(1985). Holding Our Ground 1985 Radio Series. [Audio recording]. Alaska Native News Magazine. Western Media.

Goldin, L. A. (Producer). (1996).The Land is Ours [DVD]. Sealaska Heritage Foundation. Aurora Films.

Powerful documentary about Tlingit and Haida tribes.

Other notable resources (books, reports, articles) some by Alaska Native authors on culture, education, subsistence, etc.

Allen, J. A. (1978). A Whaler and Trader in the Arctic. Anchorage:  Alaska Northwest Publishers.

          Memoirs of a resident of Arctic area describing whaling.

Andrews, S. B. & J. Creed. (1998). Authentic Alaska: voices of its Native writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

          Collection of writing by over 40 contemporary Alaska Native attesting to the spirit of survival despite the turmoil of cultural upheaval, bearing witness to significant change among their people.

Arndt, K. (1996). Released to Reside Forever in the Colonies: Founding of a Russian American Company Retirement Settlement at Ninilchik, Alaska.  In Davis, N.Y. & W. E. Davis, Eds., Adventure Through Time: Readings in the Anthropology of Cook Inlet, Alaska. Anchorage: Cook Inlet Historical Society.

Antonson, J. A. (1985). Alaska's Heritage. Anchorage: Alaska Historical Society.

Barnhardt, R., & O. Kawagley. (2010). Alaska Native Education. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Knowledge Network.

Berkhofer, R., Jr. (1978).The White Man's Indian New York: Vintage Books.

          A classic on the perceptions and images that have defined the views of white people about Native Americans as seen in literature.

Bigjim, F. 1983. Sinrock. Portland: Press 22.

          Poetry by an Iñupiaq from Northwest Alaska.

Blackman, M. B. (1989). Sadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Blackman, M.  B. (1992). During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Boas, F. (1964). The Central Eskimo Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

          Reprint of the work of one of the leading early anthropologists.

Bodfish, W. (1991). Kusiq. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

          A personal account of life in the North Slope of Alaska by an Iñupiat Elder.

Boeri, D. (1983). People of the Ice Whale. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

          A journalist who was a guest in an Alaskan St. Lawrence Island community and then wrote a text without inviting community comment on the text before publishing.

Bowden, H. W. (1981). American Indians and Christian Missions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

          An analysis of the cultural encounters between Christian missionaries and Native American communities and religions.

Briggs, J. (1970). Never In Anger. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

          An anthropologist describes the child rearing practices of an Inuit family.

Breinig, J. (2001). Alaskan Haida Narratives: Maintaining Cultural Identity Through Subsistence in M. A. Nelson & E. Hoffman (Eds.), Telling the Stories: Essays on American Indian Literatures and Cultures, New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Breinig, J. Alaskan Haida Stories of Growth and Regeneration. American Indian Quarterly 30 (Winter/Spring 2006): 110-118.

Brown, E. I. (1981). The Roots of Ticasuk: An Eskimo Woman Family Story. Portland: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company.

Brody, H. (1981). Maps and Dreams. New York: Pantheon Press.

          An anthropologist encounters a powerful and troubling experience among a Canadian Indian tribe.

Brody, H. (1987). Living Arctic Seattle: University of Washington Press.

          A white Canadian account of the pressures faced by the Natives of Arctic Canada.

Brown, D. (1970). Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston.

          Modern classic that details how the west was taken.

Brown, E. I. (Ticasuk) (1981). The Longest Story Ever Told. Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University.

          An Iñupiaq who has written a version of a traditional tale in English.

Brown, E. I. (1987). Tales of Ticasuk: Eskimo Legends and Stories. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Cline, M. (1975). Tannik School: The Impact of Education on the Eskimos of Anaktuvuk Pass. Anchorage: Alaska Methodist University Press.

Creed, J. (Producer) & D. Dayo (Researcher). (1988) Our Land, Our Future: The 1991 Amendments to the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act, A Video Instructional Series for Alaska High School Students. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education. Online: http://ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/ANCSA/olof/index.html

Darnell, F. & A. Hoem. (1996). Taken to Extremes: Education in the Far North. Oslo, Norway: Scandinavian Press.

Dauenhauer, N. M., & R. Dauenhauer, Eds.  (1987). Haa Kusteeyi, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories: Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Damas, D. & W. Sturtevant, Eds. (1984). Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

          A series of articles on the history of the various Arctic peoples.

Degnan, F. (1999). Under the Arctic Sun: The Life and Times of Frank and Ida Degnan. Unalakleet: Cottonwood Bark.

          Memories, interviews and pictures of Unalakleet and the surrounding area.

Fienup-Riordan, A. (1991). Real People and the Children of Thunder: The Yup'ik Eskimo Encounter with Moravian Missionaries John and Edith Kilbuk. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Fienup-Riordan, A. (2003). Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Frank, J. & S. Frank. (1995). Neerihiinijik: We Traveled From Place to Place: The Gwich'in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Center.

Frank, R. (1991). Richard Frank, Fairbanks Native Association, Project Jukebox. Interview by William Schneider, October 2, 1991, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Harper-Haines, J. (2000). Cold River Spirits: The legacy of an Athabascan-Irish family from Alaska's Yukon River. Kenmore:  Epicenter Press.

Hensley, W. (2008). Fifty Miles to Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Hope, I. & M. Dimi. N.D. Strong Man: A Tlingit Story. Juneau: Association of Alaska School Boards.

Kan, S. (1999). Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Kaplan, L. (1989). Inupiaq and the Schools. Juneau: Alaska Department of Education.

Nelson, R. K. (1980). Shadow of the Hunter: Stories of Eskimo Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Okakok, L. (1989, Winter). Serving the Purpose of Education. Harvard Educational Review, 59:4, 405-423.  Retrieved from: http://her.hepg.org/content/j774101814p68423/fulltext.pdf

Oleksa, M. (1995). Another Culture/Another World. Juneau: Association of Alaska School Boards.

Ongtooguk, P. (1987). Selected Readings for Inupiaq Studies. Kotzebue: Northwest Arctic Borough School District.

Ongtooguk, P. (2000). Aspects of Traditional Inupiat Education. Online: http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/Pauls_doc2.htm

Oquilluk, W. A. (1973). People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo. Anchorage:  Alaska Methodist University Press. Out of print but available on Alaskool.

Ray, C. (1959). A Program of Education for Alaska Natives. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Sackett, J. (1991). John Sackett, Fairbanks Native Association, Project Jukebox. Interview by Bernice Joseph, December 13, 1991, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Fairbanks.      

Senungetuk, J. (1972). Give or Take a Century. San Francisco:  Indian Historian Press.

Smelcer, J. E. (2006). The Day That Cries Forever: Stories of the Destruction of Chenega During the 1964 Alaska Earthquake. Anchorage: Todd Communications.

Wells, J. K. (1974). Ipani: A Cycle of Life in Nature. Anchorage: Alaska Methodist University Press. Out of print but available on Alaskool.

Wohlforth, C. (2005). The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change. New York: North Point Press.

Wright, M. H. (1995). The Last Great Indian War (Nulato, 1851): A Master's Thesis. Fairbanks: University of Fairbanks.

 

Websites of Interest

ANCSA Resource Center
http://www.lbblawyers.com/ancsa.htm
This is a resource for recent discussions about ANCSA.

 

Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)

http://amipa.org/

Alaskana collections consist of film, television and recorded sound materials including motion picture film, audio recordings, videocassettes, and dvd’s formats.

 

Alaska Native Knowledge Network Curriculum Resources

http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/

Resources for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing.

 

Alaska Native Science Commission

www.nativescience.org/

Clearinghouse, information base, and archive for research related to the Alaska Native community.

Alaskool
www.Alaskool.org/
Online resources on ANCSA, Alaska Native histories, education, language material and cultures.

Arctic Circle
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Landclaims/
Online resources on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

Litsite Alaska

http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm

Great section with excerpts of interviews and event transcripts featuring original participants of the Act reflecting on 30 years of the passage of ANCSA.

 

UAA Archives & Special Collections

http://libguides.consortiumlibrary.org/ANCSAcollections

In anticipation of ANCSA’s 40th anniversary, the archive and special collections department has compiled a research guide consisting of original, primary-source documents related to ANCSA, ANILCA, and D-2a.

 

UAA Justice Center
http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/index.html

Resources related to justice from teaching resources and research documents including publications on Alaska Native and indigenous peoples.