Alaska Natives And The Power Of Perseverance: The Fight For Sovereignty And Land Claims In Southeast Alaska, 1912-1947

• Main Author: Baumgarte, Bridget Lee
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2015
• Subjects: Alaska; Alaska Native; Alaska Native Brotherhood; Land Claims; Tlingit and Haida Indians of Southeast Alaska v. the United States; William Paul; History; Indigenous Studies; United States History; Perseverance; haida; tlingit
• Online Access: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/2466; https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3467&context=thesesdissertations

In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. Americans viewed Alaska as a source of natural resources, at first engaging in the dwindling fur trade and then expanding to mining and the commercial salmon fishery by the turn of the century. For Alaska’s Indigenous people, these tumultuous...