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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
May 10, 2017 · I show how Alaska Natives challenged non-native assumptions that equal U.S. citizenship and native rights to land, sovereignty, and economic self-determination were mutually exclusive.
- Jessica Leslie Arnett
- 2017
Nov 6, 2020 · Conflicts between Britain and the United States over the location of the boundary between their respective territorial claims in the region were eventually settled by the 1846 Washington Treaty, which drew the international boundary along the 49th parallel from the Rocky Mountains to the coast.
- Kent Mcneil
- kmcneil@osgoode.yorku.ca
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
The state and federal governments would have to settle land claims with Alaskan Natives if they wanted a pipeline. For months the parties involved worked to hammer out a deal.
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.
