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The Wartime Internment of Native Alaskans. At the outset of the Aleutian Islands campaign, 800 native Unangan were removed and interned in squalid camps from 1942 through 1945. June 30, 2022.
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Jun 23, 2013 · In June 1923 Harding started off on his trip across the country to Alaska, which he called the “Voyage of Understanding.”. Harding was not a very competent president, and his term in office was marred by scandals and scoundrels. Before his westward journey public confidence in the president was at a low point, and he wanted a chance to make ...
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When a college-aged Hensley was assigned to write a paper on constitutional land rights in 1966, he discovered that Indigenous Alaskans still owned the land under the nation’s “aboriginal title.” Using a $10 loan, Hensley bought some stamps and began sending out the information to Alaska Native communities. “We had absolutely no idea where we were ...
ANCSA is a complex piece of legislation. In its simplest terms, it provided Alaska Natives with $962.5 million and title to 44 million acres of land in exchange for the extinguishment of aboriginal land claims. The land and money would go to Native corporations, which would develop the land and issue dividends from the profits to Native shareholder...
The specific details of ANCSA hardly illustrate the monumental societal shift that it created in Alaska. Numbers and figures alone can’t speak to that. It is best described through firsthand accounts. The heads of these new corporations understandably had no experience running multi-million dollar companies — many had no formal business experience ...
Mar 29, 2017 · With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million. That sum, amounting to just $113 ...
Nov 17, 2022 · This time, Axis forces actually invaded, turning the Aleutian Islands into a battleground. What the country did next, in the name of “protecting” Alaska’s Indigenous people, is a shameful ...
The Iditarod Sled Dog Race carries on the racing tradition started in those early days. It commemorates those intrepid mushers (including Seppala) and their dogs, who fought through blizzard conditions to bring a life-saving diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925.
Forty-six days after Alaska’s death, Pudge works up the courage to resolve the awkward tension between him and Lara, whom he has not spoken to since their return from the pre-prank. Pudge admits his love for Alaska and Lara is accepting of his reasoning, perhaps because she knew it all along.
