• The Alaska Native Allotment Act of 1906, 34 Stat. 197, enacted on May 17, 1906, permitted individual Alaska Natives to acquire title to up to 160 acres...
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    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within...
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  • The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting what is still the largest...
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    to land under the Dawes Act of 1887 but were instead treated under the Alaska Native Allotment Act of 1906. The Allotment Act was repealed in 1971, following...
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    nearly two-thirds of Native Americans were already U.S. citizens, through marriage, military service or accepting land allotments. The Act extended citizenship...
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  • permanent (1902). The Alaska Native Allotment Act (1906) authorized the Secretary of the Interior "to allot individual Alaska Natives a homestead of up to...
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    Individual Native allotments are sold on the open market. Various private interests own the remaining land, totaling about one percent of the state. Alaska is...
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    despite legal recognition of their formal equality, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders grapple with economic disparities...
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    1971, President Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Under the act, Native groups would renounce their land claims in...
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    Public Lands and (2004). Alaska Native Allotment Subdivision Act, Alaska Land Transfer Facilities Act, Ojito Wilderness Act, and Inventory and Management...
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    via Indian removal policies, forced removal of Native American children to boarding schools, allotment, and a policy of termination. The letters exchanged...
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    Alaska Native Areas, U.S. Census Bureau, Geographic Areas Reference manual (PDF) Tribal Leaders Directory Native American Technical Corrections Act of...
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    574 tribal nations, 229 of which are in Alaska. The National Congress of American Indians explains, "Native peoples and governments have inherent rights...
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  • interests of the Alaska Natives is the Alaska Federation of Natives. From 1966 to 1971, this group lobbied for a fair land claims settlement act, which resulted...
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    that members of certain Native American tribes who accepted an allotment of land was considered a citizen. The goal was for Natives to, through assimilation...
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    list of Native Americans a notable individuals who are Native Americans in the United States, including Alaska Natives and American Indians. Native American...
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    traditional perceptions of gender norms and Native American societal structure. The General Allotment Act of 1887 allocated private lands to male heads...
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    Education Act, which established a comprehensive approach to meeting the unique needs of American Indians and Alaska Native students. This Act recognizes...
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  • (2005) Alaska Native Allotment Act Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 American Indian Religious Freedom Act American...
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    sovereignty of American Indian tribes. As more Native Americans received allotments through the Dawes Act, there was a great deal of public and state pressure...
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    establishing Alaska's parental bill of rights. In 2013, Dunleavy sponsored legislation to create Alaska's correspondence school allotment program (SB100)...
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    general areas of conflict. The passages of the Indian Removal Act (1830) and General Allotment Act (1887) resulted in the forced relocation and displacement...
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  • reorganize their governments and strengthen their communities. It ended the allotment of Indian lands to individual households, which had led to loss of control...
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  • effect of historical trauma on Native Americans. Four-fifths of American Indian land was lost due to the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. The U.S. government...
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  • "self-determination." The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act restructured indigenous governance in Alaska, creating a unique structure of Native Corporations. Some...
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  • claims on land selected or topfiled by the State. Title II -- Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was an attempt to finalize the Regional and Village Corporation...
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    years, Native Americans became U.S. citizens by: 1. Treaty provision (as with the Cherokee) 2. Registration and land allotment under the Dawes Act of February...
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  • Federal Indian Policy (category Native American law)
    General Allotment Act, which is considered one of the earliest attempts aimed toward assimilation of Native tribes. This act intended to give Natives a sense...
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    published separately from American Indians and Alaska Natives". The use of Native American or native American to refer to Indigenous peoples who live...
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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (film) (category Films about Native Americans)
    1893-1914 Case DS, Voluck DA (2002). Alaska Natives and American Laws (2nd ed.). Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press. pp. 104–5. ISBN 978-1-889963-08-2...
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