| Summary: | A later revision, which expands upon this paper, was presented as: Conn, Stephen. (1990). "Why Canadian Indian Law Is Important to Alaskans, Why Indian Law in Alaska Is Important to Canada". Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 32nd annual conference of the Western Regional Science Association, Portland, OR, Apr 1990. (https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/10741) Alaska Natives and Canadian aboriginal peoples have been late bloomers in securing land claims based on aboriginal title and its extinguishment. While the reasons for this delay relate to the discrete development of Indian policy in each country, both groups now find themselves seeking explicit governmental authority to regulate this domain. Despite the juridical premise that only those groups capable of controlling land have aboriginal claims to cede and/or extinguish, modern groups must secure federal confirmation of their sovereign powers. Barriers in each country are similar; so are the strategies employed. Research funded by Canadian Faculty Development Grant and a Canadian Research Grant Abstract / [Introduction] / States and Provinces / What Alaskans Discovered / The Territorial and Developmental Imperative / Tribal Models Compared / Footnotes / Bibliography
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