Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Symposium held at Rasmusen Hall, hosted by Maria Williams on November 18, 2016. Professor Maria Williams taught Alaska Native Perspectives A206 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until 5:15 pm. She spoke of many subjects that pertain to the history of Alaska and the impacts of colonial contact. These impacts included: Segregation, Conversion to Christianity, Statehood in 1959, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, just to name a few. Then there was The Comity Agreement of 1874. As the semester went by, Professor Williams would remind the class to be thinking about a topic for the final presentation or that the other option was a ten page research paper. I knew I was not…

Alaskan Native History Alaskan Native Indians are people that migrated to North America approximately 1,300 years ago from the Eurasian continent. They had developed intricate cultural lines and pioneered advanced methods for surviving the fridged Arctic climate using nothing but what was available in nature. For this reason, the Alaskan Natives developed a deep cultural bond with the land that was also rich with materials useless to them such as gold and oil. This situation along with abundant…

of Waitangi is anything but a Magna Carta. Or is it Fraud? The definition of fraud includes the wrongful deception of someone for personal gain. Did the Government intend to mislead Māori into signing the Treaty of Waitangi? Or was it just an accident that things went sour. Let us know discuss some of the other perspectives contained in the quotation. The Treaty is a Fraud was a phrase used in the 1970’s which was a campaign/protest slogan coming out of the frustration that people had with the…

The False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or business that has or is committing such fraud. The individual filing such claim on behalf of the United States Government is identified as the qui tam plaintiff and, if the action is successful, such person is entitled to share in a percentage of…

the Environment Court. The first was whether the Minister had given adequate consideration to alternative routes under s 24(7)(b) of the Public Works Act 1981 (PWA). The second was whether it would be fair, sound and reasonably necessary to take the land of the objector in order to achieve the objectives of the Minister under s 24(7)(d) of the PWA. Decision: The first issue required the Court to decide whether adequate consideration was given to alternative routes. The respondent…

to sell off assets well below the market value. She also discovered that their goal was to write off debts as they also manipulated the bank’s financial data to grant the incoming chief executive officer amounts running into millions of dollars, and this contravenes ethical code of conduct in the banking industry. As a whistleblower, Rego rescued the banks and its stakeholders from calamitous outcomes that might have befallen them. The rewards system is a great approach in disclosing secrets…

employers who are conduciting unethical practices and that they should protect not only the source of income but also the image the company has. In many industries whistle blowing can be benefical to society it cause severe problems especially to the industry which it occurs. When the claims are true the issues can be solved however when dealing with false claims and law suits can cost a company millions of dollars and sometimes it may have been spent unnecessarily. By the time the company…

In 1863 the federal government enacted the Civil False Claims Act, which also came to be known as the whistle-blower statute. Despite being given a derogatory colloquial name; the statute serves an essential purpose for dependency in government contracting. The law was strengthened in 1986 to provide a penalty of tremble damages in addition to 10,000 dollars per false claim against the defendant. The “whistle-blower,” now given the more pleasant term of “relator” may now collect between 15 and…

The False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or business that has or is committing such fraud. The individual filing such claim on behalf of the United States Government is identified as the qui tam plaintiff and, if the action is successful, such person is entitled to share in a percentage of…

My classroom has three life rules to remember. 1. You are kind, you are smart, and you are important. This is a quote from the movie, The Help (2011). I have changed the quote to be grammatically correct. Many of my students very low self-esteem. The studies indicate Alaska Natives and American Indians have suicide rates 3 times the national rate of all races combined. (Herne, 2014) My students know that I am someone they can talk to if they need to about suicide. The district requires all…