A dangerous idea : the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for indigenous rights / Peter Metcalfe.

By:

Metcalfe, Peter, 1951- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781602232402

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E78 .D364 2014

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Contents:

The Alaska Native Brotherhood -- Suing the Government -- Reservations in Alaska -- A Bad Time for Indians -- The Extinguishment Legislation -- Statehood or Native Claims -- Shaping Alaska.

Scope and content: "Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alaska Natives, securing unheard-of victories in a contentious time. Their unified work and legal prowess propelled the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, one of the biggest claim settlements in United States history. A dangerous idea tells an overlooked but powerful story of Alaska Natives fighting for their rights under American law and details one of the rare successes for Native Americans in their nearly two-hundred-year effort to define and protect their rights"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E78.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn908552343

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alaska Natives, securing unheard-of victories in a contentious time. Their unified work and legal prowess propelled the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, one of the biggest claim settlements in United States history. A dangerous idea tells an overlooked but powerful story of Alaska Natives fighting for their rights under American law and details one of the rare successes for Native Americans in their nearly two-hundred-year effort to define and protect their rights"--

Aboriginal Title in Alaska -- The Alaska Native Brotherhood -- Suing the Government -- Reservations in Alaska -- A Bad Time for Indians -- The Extinguishment Legislation -- Statehood or Native Claims -- Shaping Alaska.

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