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158465
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The formal treaty-making period between the U.S. government and Native peoples ended in 1871, only four years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. As a result, Alaska Natives did not enter into treaties that recognized their political authority or land rights. Nor, following the end of the treaty-making period, were Alaska Natives granted the same land rights as federally recognized tribes in the lower forty-eight states. Rather, Congress created the Alaska Native Corporations as the management vehicle for conveyed lands in 1971. The unique legal status of these corporations has raised many questions about tribal land ownership and governance for future generations of Alaska Natives. Although Congress created the Native Corporations in its eagerness to settle land claims and assimilate Alaska Natives, Alaska Native cultures and governance structures persisted and evolved, and today many are reasserting the inherent authority of sovereign governments.
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032107
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London, Hutchinson, 1972.
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248p.: ill., maps, chartshbk
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0091109701
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 010304 | 979.8/COO 010304 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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133340
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2014.
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The Royal Australian Air Forces (RAAF) debuted two upgraded Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules Multirole Transports with a newly fitted electronic warfare self protection system at exercise red flag Alaska 14-2, which concluded at the end of June.
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184270
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Apparently unnoticed by its advocates, a prominent effort to improve the troubled US presidential-election system—the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC)—is on a collision course with another effort at electoral change—“ranked-choice voting” (RCV, known previously by less ambiguous names). The NPVIC is a clever device intended, without constitutional amendment, to elect as president the nationwide popular-vote winner (i.e., the plurality-vote winner) rather than the electoral-vote winner. Election results in 2000, 2016, and 2020 enhanced its support. However, the (constitutional) ability of even one state to replace its plurality voting with another voting system causes the popular-vote total posited for the NPVIC to be undefined, thereby rendering the NPVIC unusable. Maine and Alaska recently switched from plurality voting to RCV for presidential elections. Consequently, tangled results and turmoil could occur with the NPVIC. To improve presidential elections, replacing plurality voting with other systems appears to be more sensible than pursuing the NPVIC.
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129200
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2014.
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Kivalina is an Inupiat village of 350 people that sits on two square miles of doomed Alaskan coastline. the state of Alaska and the US government consider Kivalina imminently threatened by climate driven erosion and flooding, and the village must relocate very soon so service. every year, Kivalina is battered by hurricane strength storm system twice the size of Texas that threaten to wash the tiny village away.
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101876
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2010.
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A REGIONAL CONFERENCE of Russian compatriots living in North and Latin America was held in the capital of Mexico. For two days, 40 delegates representing organizations of our compatriots in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the U.S., Uruguay, Chile, and Ecuador discussed the problems facing the Russian diasporas, exchanged work organization experience, and talked with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and Russian World Foundation who had come from Moscow to participate in the undertaking. The conference held in Mexico with the active organizational support of the Russian Embassy and Federal Agency of CIS Affairs, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation was the third regional forum of its kind, bringing together members of compatriots' organizations living in the countries of the Western hemisphere.
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ID:
127565
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171854
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At the September 1853 dedication of Capitol University in Columbus, Ohio, Senator William H. Seward proclaimed to his audience: “the borders of the Federal Republic, so peculiarly constituted, shall be extended so that it shall greet the sun when he touches the Tropic and when he sends his glancing rays towards the Polar circle, and shall include even distant islands in either ocean.” From Seward’s perspective U.S. expansion was inevitable. “It is quite clear to us,” he continued, “that the motives to enlargement are even more active than they ever were heretofore.” Seward praised the country’s passion for territorial aggrandizement which served to increase the United States’ wealth, power, and expansion. Only fear, he warned, which “betrays like Treason,” could stall the American juggernaut. Near the end of his speech, Seward reminded his listeners that “a nation must always recede if it be not actually advancing.” Fourteen years later, as Secretary of State, Seward took decisive action toward fulfilling his own prophecy when he negotiated and secured the purchase of Alaska, thus ensuring that the United States’ borders literally did “greet the sun […] when he sends his glancing rays towards the Polar circle.”
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171146
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Lafkenche and Williche, the Mapuche coastal population in Chile, used coastal marine areas and resources for centuries. The Spanish colonization and the subsequent establishment of the Republic of Chile curtailed these access rights and traditional uses. In 2008, the government of Chile introduced the “Lafkenche Law” establishing exclusive access rights for traditional indigenous use of coastal marine areas and resources, but the law has not led to effective self-determination or the development of the ethnic Mapuche populations. Interviews with indigenous community leaders in October 2014 confirmed their dissatisfaction with this law. This article discusses whether the experience of other nations, such as the innovative Community Development Quota Program in Alaska in the United States, which allocates a portion of certain species in the Bering Sea to coastal communities, can help overcome marine resources access barriers affecting the Mapuche people.
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100761
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2010.
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This article examines transformations of status-capital in the modern history of the Alaska Native Alutiiq. I redevelop Pierre Bourdieu's forms of capital and habitus to analyze how Alutiiq elites stay on course during massive changes in their social structure. By drawing attention to citizenship statuses of the nineteenth century Russian and American colonial periods, I explore how local structural inequalities emerge in Alaska, yet with leaders of the same Alaska Native kin groups moving into the new privileged positions as Russian Imperial citizen, then later as American citizen. The study identifies citizenship as a key technology of group identification in Alaska and, in particular, how civilizing processes associated with citizenship create marked objective differences among the Alutiiq. Alaska Native society's articulation with the Russian and, later, American cultural-political orders creates new kinds of local structural inequalities. By possessing the requisite cultural capital to comprehend structural shifts in politics and the economy, Alaska Native elites strategically fit into new legal and ideological regimes of belonging. What develops is an example of the durability of an Alaska Native ruling elite by means of the transformation of prestige.
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ID:
121725
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2013.
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In a setback to congressional proponents of a new missile interceptor site on the U.S. East Coast, senior military officials wrote in June that there is no military requirement for such a site and that the funds would be better spent on improving sensor capabilities for the existing system of interceptor sites in Alaska and California.
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171268
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THE PROBLEM of the acquisition and sale of Alaska, and to whom it belongs, excites the minds of researchers to this day. There are suppositions that once the first Russians had traversed Siberia, they settled in Alaska during the second half of the 16th century.1 ... The next period, in which Alaska gets mentioned by Russian people, dates to 1648, in connection with the names of the Cossack Semyon Dezhnev and his associate Fedot Popov, who circumvented the Asian continent, then passed from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean basin.
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159550
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The Russian Navy played a decisive role in the opening of Alaska, though later relatively few of its ships appeared in the region, passing the baton to ships of private merchant companies and then to the Russian-American Company, which governed Alaska until its sale to the United States in 1867. Most of the company’s ships had rather limited military capabilities. Although the navy played a significant role in the development of Alaska, the military dimension to this process manifested itself relatively weakly. The ships under the Russian flag primarily carried out transport and convoy functions, shielding flotillas of company hunting baidarki [skin boats] from the attacks of hostile Indians, and later conducted formal patrols for watching foreign whaling ships. Almost the only episodes in which Russian ships were used in battle were the participation of the sloop Neva in a fight with the Tlingit Indians in 1804 and the raids of two Russian-American Company ships in 1806–1807 on Japanese villages on Sakhalin Island and the southern Kurile Islands.
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111381
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2012.
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We model the economically optimal dynamic oil production decisions for seven production units (fields) on Alaska's North Slope. We use adjustment cost and discount rate to calibrate the model against historical production data, and use the calibrated model to simulate the impact of tax policy on production rate. We construct field-specific cost functions from average cost data and an estimated inverse production function, which incorporates engineering aspects of oil production into our economic modeling. Producers appear to have approximated dynamic optimality. Consistent with prior research, we find that changing the tax rate alone does not change the economically optimal oil production path, except for marginal fields that may cease production. Contrary to prior research, we find that the structure of tax policy can be designed to affect the economically optimal production path, but at a cost in net social benefit.
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193308
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This article explores avian experiences with toxic war processes that unfold across space and time. Joining together three evolving areas of interest in global politics – ontologies of war, interspecies relations, and sensory politics – the article develops a view of war that centres ongoing war processes that affect more-than-human life in and outside of international warzones. Advancing a multispecies form of inquiry attentive to local voices, including Upper Cook Inlet Tribes, the article examines how interspecies relations emerge in national security debates about long-lasting ecological costs of war. Specifically, it offers an analysis of US Department of Defense hearings surrounding the controversy over reopening Eagle River Flats – an Alaskan estuary that had been polluted with white phosphorus munitions – for weapons testing and training during the Iraq War. The article also considers the experiences of two migratory avian communities (northern pintails and tundra swans) with toxic white phosphorus pollution, illustrating more-than-human sensory perspectives on the space and time of war processes. These conceptual and empirical moves reposition national security concerns about wartime risk into a much broader post-anthropocentric perspective.
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123896
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2013.
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THE NEW U.S. SECRETARY OF ENERGY, Ernest Moniz, did not make much of an impression on the Senate Committee that was engaged in confirming him. A question from a Republican senator whether the new Secretary had plans to develop an oil-bearing continental shelf so as to remove the "dependence" of Europe on Russian oil remained unanswered. Moniz also dodged the question about the development of the huge reserves of natural gas in Alaska. The impression was that, despite the achievements that in a short time have let the U.S. come close to energy independence and set the stage for exporting its own energy resources, the Secretary did not have a well-thought-out program for developing the country's energy sector.
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ID:
122131
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2013.
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In March 2013, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, citing the progress of North Korea's nuclear program, announced that the United States would be bolstering its missile defenses. Fourteen new ground-based interceptor missiles, known as GBIs, would be deployed to Alaska, augmenting the thirty already in silos there and in California. The Pentagon would develop a new two-stage GBI, as well as a more advanced version of the "kill vehicle," which interceptors carry to smash into adversary warheads ("hit-to-kill"). The Obama administration would be deploying a second advanced mobile radar system, the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance 2, in Japan. And Hagel even indicated that the administration would restructure its plans for US missile defenses in Europe, canceling the SM-3 IIB interceptor, the cornerstone of the fourth and final phase of its European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA), which had been announced in 2009 as a means of deploying more-advanced interceptors in Eastern and Central Europe specifically designed to defend the US homeland from intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from Europe, Eurasia, or the Middle East.
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Residents of Interior Alaska are faced with a cold climate and relatively high energy prices, which results in high home energy expenditures. Increasing the energy efficiency of the housing stock can help reduce household energy expenditures. Following a spike in oil prices in 2008, legislation was passed, which created the Home Energy Rebate Program. Homeowners participating in the program were eligible to receive up to a $10,000 rebate for preapproved home energy efficiency improvements. This paper examines the effect of the Home Energy Rebate program on the selling prices of single-family residences in the Fairbanks North Star Borough from 2008 through 2015 using a hedonic pricing analysis. The results show that homes that completed the Home Energy Rebate program in the Fairbanks North Star Borough sell for a 15.1–16.5% price premium over similar homes that did not complete the program, which indicates that investments in residential energy efficiency are compensated. This is the first study to examine the impact of energy efficiency on house prices in a market with a subarctic climate.
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