My fellow Alaska Native colleagues Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams, Holly Miowak Guise, and I will be presenting the panel "Native activism and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act," at the 16th Annual American Indian Studies Association Conference hosted by University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Thursday February 5 & Friday February 6, 2015. Please stop by if you would like to know more about the activist currents in Native Alaska and how they relate to our contemporary legal relationships to land. The abstract of the panel is below, along with our panel details.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 was the
largest land settlement made by the United States with an indigenous group. With
the passage of the settlement the government formed 13 regional and hundreds of
village Native-operated for-profit corporations in exchange for Native
communities releasing their title claims to the Alaska region. Often maligned
by the public, the settlement and their corporations, changed traditional
cultural ways of living for Alaska Native communities in a variety of ways.
This panel tracks the history of the settlement, with its origins in
pre-statehood Alaska amid World War II Native alliances to the rise of the
Alaska Federation of Natives through the Alaska Native Solidarity Movement. After
giving consideration to the activist currents of political solidarity and their
interests in maintaining traditional culture, that preceded the settlement, the
panel examines how the introduction of IRA-based tribal governments in the
1990s complicated politics for the Native people, the corporations, and the
State of Alaska. This is believed to be the first panel on the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act by Alaska Native scholars at a national conference.
Session 4 11:00
a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Title: A Tradition of Activism and the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act
Room:
SUB Lobo A&B
Moderator: Thomas Michael Swensen, Colorado State
University
Holly Miowak Guise, History PhD Candidate, Yale University
Alaska Native Solidarity Movements During WWII
Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams, Associate Professor and Director, Alaska Native
Studies, University of Alaska-Anchorage
Alaska Native Solidarity Movement and the Leadership Role of Nick Gray
Alaska Native Solidarity Movement and the Leadership Role of Nick Gray
Thomas Michael Swensen, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies,
Colorado State University
Impossible Sovereignties: The Alaska Federation of Natives, Native Corporations, and Tribal Governments in Alaska
Impossible Sovereignties: The Alaska Federation of Natives, Native Corporations, and Tribal Governments in Alaska
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