Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by James Young, is a detailed exposé of cultural appropriation through research and real life accounts all ranging from things like religion, to archaeological studies and everything in between. This book seemed fitting to my topic as it takes cultural appropriation one step farther, and discusses the ethics behind it from a number of different viewpoints. Each chapter in the book is a separate idea than the last, being discussed in detail, edited numerous…

and scientific debates. Scientists asserted that the Kennewick Man neither belonged to Native Americans nor related to the tribes in the Northwest areas of Pacific region. These two groups advocated for the repatriation bones because they believed they were related to the Kennewick Man. The main law that warranted the return of the bones to natives was the Native Americans Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). However, the outcome of the scientific analysis rendered null the…

all three I chose culture change for the main theme of this assignment. The origin of the Tlingit is unknown since they are different and have no relation to any of the other tribes. It is believed they came to southeast Alaska approximately 11,000 years ago. The Tlingit of Alaska consider the land now known as Glacier Bay National Park as their homeland. Unfortunately there have been several glacial advances and retreats over the past 10,000 years that forced the Tlingit to leave this area,…

With the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), Alaska Native people were faced with a daunting choice: give up their historic land and participate in an economically forward society, or remain in possession of their lands and govern their people. Later, Native tribes of Alaska created Constitutions to develop their communities and generate a body of government tailored to their location. With 200 tribe constitutions, it would be nearly impossible to compare and contrast them…

discussions on how the want to create their governing system so they can achieve sovereignty. The Yupik nation was created in 1978 and has 19 tribes, the main tribes in this group are the Akiak, the Akiachak, the Tuluksak, and the wethluk. In western Alaska there is no precedence for one organization or one leader with the authority to command the diverse interests in the delta region. This can be a problem when the appearance of unity is necessary. When lobbying for support in Washington D.C.…

On March 24, 1989, in Prince William Sound Alaska, the Exxon Valdez was moving South West subsequent to leaving Port Valdez. The ship was carrying fifty million gallons of raw petroleum. The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker that was heading to Long Beach California. The tank had struck a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, which resulted in the spilling of 260,000 to 750,000 barrel of crude oil. The Exxon Valdez spilled 10.9 million gallons out of its 53 million gallon payload of Crude oil. Eight…

Angoon On October 26th, 1882 Angoon Alaska was shelled and burned by the US Navy after a dispute and alleged hostage situation. The Shaman of the Tlingit tribe was taken on a whale boat where a harpoon gun exploded, killing the medicine man of the tribe. The tribe mourned for 4 days after they received the news, they did nothing. After the monstrosity, the tribe only asked for 200 blankets and an apology from the US Navy, what they received was $90,000 from Congress. The conflict occurred…

The Inuit are part of a wide group modernly called Eskimos. Scattered throughout the Arctic region, they occupy parts Canada, Greenland, and the Alaskan coast. They originated in in Western Alaska starting around 1000 A.D., and slowly expanded outwards. The Inuit have been around for a large span of time, and still exist today. With regards to the characteristics their society, the capacity for the presence of peace and violence is evaluated through ethnographic, archaeological, and…

and fraud” had hindered revenue collection (Document F). The British saw this as a justification to seek out new sources of revenue from the American colonies. The idea for doing so was the 1765 Stamp Act, part of Prime Minister Grenville’s program to utilize control over the colonies. The Stamp Act required that all paper products to have a stamp on them. This was Ideological because it was an idea from the British that would guide the colonist to help pay the debt from the French and Indian…

the rights of man, republicanism, and so forth. But America exhibited symptoms of imperialism - both hard imperialism and soft imperialism - in their growth and expansion west. Whilst before about 1840 and the rise of Manifest Destiny America could claim to be to some extent separate from the European empires, it maintained fundamental similarities to British imperialism both before and especially after this date. Some historians have…