Social Science Native American Studies
Village Journey
The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2011
- Category
- Native American Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550544251
- Publish Date
- Jan 1985
- List Price
- $20.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553657705
- Publish Date
- Apr 2011
- List Price
- $0
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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed by Congress in 1971, hailed at the time as the most liberal settlement ever achieved with Native Americans, granted 44 million acres and nearly $1 billion in cash to a new entity -- Native corporations. When this book was published in 1985, that settlement was bitterly resented by the Alaska Natives themselves. Thomas R. Berger, invited by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to head the Alaska Native Review Commission, traveled to sixty-two villages and towns, held village meetings and listened to testimony from Inuit, Aboriginal peoples, and Aleuts. His report, Village Journey, suggests changes in the law and public attitudes that will be required to reach a fair accommodation with the Alaska Natives and enable them to keep their land for themselves and for their descendants.
The author's new Preface deals with problems still facing Alaska Natives and their corporations.
This is a new release of the book published in May 1995.
About the author
Thomas Rodney Berger QC OC OBC was a Canadian politician and jurist. He was briefly a member of the House of Commons of Canada in the early 1960s and was a justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1971 to 1983. In 1974, he became the royal commissioner of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, which released its findings in 1977. He was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. Justice Berger died on April 28, 2021.
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