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Breaking the Ice
From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic
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2008
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Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain control over their land claims to the Native alienation from the corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in tribalism. He shows that while the forces of modernism and traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by the structures of co-management, corporate development, and self-government created by the region's comprehensive land claims settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into something else altogether in the North: a peaceful force to spawn the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1941-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3303-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
421
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword: Route to Northern Self-Government Relevant around the World No access
Foreword: Arctic Peoples Regain Sovereignty through Determination and Innovation No access
Preface: Breaking the Ice No access
1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
2: Alaska in the Age of Native Land Claims No access Pages 27 - 66
3: After ANCSA: The Persistence of Subsistence No access Pages 67 - 134
4: Land Claims Come to the Northwest Territories No access Pages 135 - 192
5: Co-Management in Action: Balancing the Two Arctics No access Pages 193 - 288
6: After Land Claims: Toward the Restoration of Tribal Sovereignty No access Pages 289 - 330
