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"Alaska
Natives and the Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971".
by Norman Chance
University of Connecticut, Arctic Circle, 1990 [updated ca. 1999].
This publication
is not a Justice Center product, but is abstracted here
for its relevance to the Justice Center research or academic
missions.
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Abstract: A history of the circumstances leading
to passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
in 1971, including the role played by the Alaska Federation of
Natives (AFN) and other emerging Native organizations and the
impact of oil discoveries at Prudhoe Bay on the settlement of
Native land claims. Adapted from The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska:
An Ethnography of Development, by Norman A. Chance, (Holt,
Rinehart, & Winston, 1990).
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