A dangerous idea : the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the struggle for indigenous rights

Metcalfe, Peter 1951- (Author).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781602232396
ISBN: 1602232393
ISBN: 9781602232402
ISBN: 1602232407
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 134 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index
Formatted Contents Note:	Aboriginal Title in Alaska -- The Alaska Native Brotherhood -- Suing the Government -- Reservations in Alaska -- A Bad Time for Indians -- The Extinguishment Legislation -- Statehood or Native Claims -- Shaping Alaska.