Alaska Native Regional Corporations

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 levels of wild game and “unclaimed” territory brought fourth foreign settlers in search resources to feed their more technologically advances societies such as Russian colonist from Siberia in the 1750’s. The Russians course specifically the…

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…

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.…

Geography of Alaska, Alaska became the forty-ninth state in 1959. Alaska is the biggest state in the United States combined by California, Montana, and Texas. It has more ocean coastal then all of United States combined. Alaska extends from Eastern Hemisphere and both the westernmost and easternmost state in united state. The land area is 570,380 square miles (1477,300 km2). In 1967 United States bought Alaska. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000…

1 project in the Indiana-sized National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. “It’s good news. We’re pleased they issued the permit and the right-of-way and now we’re seeking a funding decision,” said Natalie Lowman, communications director for ConocoPhillips Alaska. The reason she believes it’s good new is because ConocoPhillips has said production could peak at 30,000…

Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989 Chuck Meacham, a regional biologist for the Alaska Department of fish and game, told the Washington post’s Bill McAllister at the time of the Exxon spill (shin, https://www.washingtonpost.com ). The state of Alaska sued Exxon over the spill, and the federal government indicted the company for violating the Clean Water Act ( shin, https://www.washingtonpost.com )Both Exxon and Mobil began as part of the standard oil trust established by John D. Kockefeller in 1882…

negative income tax system. A negative income tax will tax the first $35,000 of additional income by 50%. People that are making an additional $35,000, will have an offset in paying taxes and will not be affected by the program (Pugh). Based on the income levels of the 2010 census, providing $17,500 to citizens will only cost the government $1.9 trillion dollars with the negative income tax in effect ("Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement”). The Basic Income Guarantee program has…

environment to support the population. In short, if its current human occupants are clearly degrading the long-term carrying capacity of an area, then that area is overpopulated. Consequently, some of the effects of overpopulation on natural resources include soils being damaged and forests being rapidly depleted, thus affecting natural processes such as photosynthesis, the nitrogen cycle, and a constant food source. In addition, the depletion of water resources and extensive contribution to…