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Mar 29, 2017 · On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska,...
May 10, 2017 · By dissolving federal responsibility to Alaska Natives, these proposals struck at the very heart of native sovereignty not only in Alaska, but elsewhere by setting a precedent that could support an end to federal trust responsibility and nation-to-nation negotiations for tribes in other U.S. states. 58
- Jessica Leslie Arnett
- 2017
Alaska tribes generally have concurrent jurisdiction over domestic relations involving tribal members including adoptions, child protection, domestic violence, marriages, divorces, and probate.
On December 18, 1971 Alaska Native aboriginal claims were ‘settled’ and extinguished by an Act of Congress and signed by President Nixon through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), the largest land claims settlement in U.S. history.
Oct 18, 2022 · In March 1867 the United States agreed to a proposal from the Russian minister in Washington to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million dollars. Negotiations were spearheaded by Secretary of State William Seward who believed Alaska’s greatest value was as a trade link between the United States and Asia.
- Andreas Raspotnik
Nov 6, 2020 · In 1819, Spain renounced its claims to the Pacific Northwest by signing the Adams-Onís Treaty with the United States, agreeing on the 42nd parallel (now the boundary between the states of Oregon and California) as the northern boundary of its territory on the West Coast (Barman 1991: 28; Brooks 1939).
Jan 25, 2021 · Archaeologists have discovered traces of a 200-year-old wooden fort in southeastern Alaska built by Indigenous people to resist an invasion by Imperial Russia.
