TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metcalfe,Peter
TI  - A dangerous idea: the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for indigenous rights 
SN  - 9781602232402
AV  - E78 .D364 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Fairbanks, AK
PB  - University of Alaska Press
KW  - Alaska Native Brotherhood
KW  - History
KW  - United States --
KW  - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
KW  - Alaska Natives
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Claims
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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