A dangerous idea
Subtitle: the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for indigenous rights
By: Peter Metcalfe with Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781602232396
Subjects: United States; Alaska Native Brotherhood; Government relations; Claims; Civil rights; History; Alaska Natives; Ethnic relations; Land tenure
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.
Table of contents: title: Aboriginal Title in Alaska; title: The Alaska Native Brotherhood; title: Suing the Government; title: Reservations in Alaska; title: A Bad Time for Indians; title: The Extinguishment Legislation; title: Statehood or Native Claims; title: Shaping Alaska.