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Say We Are Nations
In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other testimony, Cobb shows how tribal leaders, intellectuals, and activists deployed a variety of protest methods over more than a century to demand Indigenous sovereignty. As these documents show, Native peoples have adopted a wide range of strategies in this struggle, invoking \"American\" and global democratic ideas about citizenship, freedom, justice, consent of the governed, representation, and personal and civil liberties while investing them with indigenized meanings.The more than fifty documents gathered here are organized chronologically and thematically for ease in classroom and research use. They address the aspirations of Indigenous nations and individuals within Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska as well as the continental United States, placing their activism in both national and international contexts. The collection's topical breadth, analytical framework, and emphasis on unpublished materials offer students and scholars new sources with which to engage and explore American Indian thought and political action.
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Alaska Natives and American Laws
Now in its third edition, Alaska Natives and American Laws
is still the only work of its kind, canvassing federal law and its
history as applied to the indigenous peoples of Alaska. Covering
1867 through 2011, the authors offer lucid explanations of the
often-tangled history of policy and law as applied to Alaska's
first peoples. Divided conceptually into four broad themes of
indigenous rights to land, subsistence, services, and sovereignty,
the book offers a thorough and balanced analysis of the evolution
of these rights in the forty-ninth state. This third edition brings
the volume fully up to date, with consideration of the broader
evolution of indigenous rights in international law and recent
developments on the ground in Alaska.
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A Dangerous Idea
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.
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Alaska Native Resilience
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion,
relocation, and land reclamation The US government
justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense
against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally
served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the
geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities
affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this
history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and
interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional
relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the
Pacific War. The forced relocation and internment of Unangax̂ in
1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World
War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim
Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen
followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took
steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their
lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control.
Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed
upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting
sovereignty over their homelands. A multifaceted challenge to
conventional histories, Alaska Native Resilience shares
the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal
long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to
colonialism.
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They Came but Could Not Conquer
As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane
J. Purvis highlights the work of Indigenous peoples in Alaska's
small rural villages, who have faced incredible odds throughout
history yet have built political clout fueled by vigorous common
cause in defense of their homes and livelihood. Starting with the
transition from Russian to American occupation of Alaska, Alaska
Natives have battled with oil and gas corporations; fought against
U.S. plans to explode thermonuclear bombs on the edge of Native
villages; litigated against political plans to flood Native homes;
sought recompense for the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster;
and struggled against the federal government's fishing restrictions
that altered Native paths for subsistence. In They Came but
Could Not Conquer Purvis presents twelve environmental crises
that occurred when isolated villages were threatened by a
governmental monolith or big business. In each, Native peoples
rallied together to protect their land, waters, resources, and a
way of life against the bulldozer of unwanted, often dangerous
alterations labeled as progress. In this gripping narrative Purvis
shares the inspiring stories of those who possessed little
influence over big business and regulations yet were able to
protect their traditional lands and waterways anyway.
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Alaska Native Resilience
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamationThe US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the Pacific War.The forced relocation and internment of Unangax̂ in 1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control. Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting sovereignty over their homelands.A multifaceted challenge to conventional histories, Alaska Native Resilience shares the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to colonialism.
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