Fifty years in the past, U.S. Congress handed laws that completely terminated Alaska Natives’ land claims. On its anniversary, Alaska Public Media and the Anchorage Every day Information, with Indigenous leaders from across the state as friends, look at the legacy of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and its impacts on subsistence, tradition and the state’s economic system.
Take a take heed to our four-part podcast sequence, Unsettled, and for extra ANCSA protection go to alaskapublic.org/ancsa50.
Episode 1: Was ANCSA honest? Or is that the incorrect query?
With visitor Maria Williams, a Native research professor at College of Alaska Anchorage, we discover the historical past of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and ask how honest and simply it was — each by the requirements of the time and by the requirements of right now. With visitor host Aaron Leggett of the Anchorage Museum and the Native Village of Eklutna.
Episode 2: How ANCSA reinforces, and clashes, with subsistence traditions
With friends Pete Schaeffer of the Native Village of Kotzebue and Mike Miller of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, we look at ANCSA’s intersection with Indigenous subsistence traditions. With visitor host Aaron Leggett, we discover how the pure useful resource growth inspired by ANCSA can typically battle with subsistence harvests and land stewardship, and different occasions improve them.
Episode 3: The generations ANCSA omitted
With visitor Andrea Gusty of The Kuskokwim Corp., we examine a polarizing component of the unique settlement: how Indigenous Alaskans born after ANCSA’s efficient date within the Nineteen Seventies have been omitted of the governance, and income, of the Native companies created by the settlement. With visitor host Meghan Sullivan of Indian Nation At this time.
Episode 4: What concerning the tribes?
With visitor Natasha Singh, an lawyer and tribal advocate, we discover the void that ANCSA left in terms of the position of tribal governments in Alaska. We discuss how Native companies can typically battle with tribes that characterize the identical Native folks, and the potential for these teams to collaborate extra intently sooner or later.
It’s also possible to take heed to Unsettled on Apple iTunes.