The Clash of Economic Decisions in Alaska
Rebecca Hofmann
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The Clash of Economic Decisions in Alaska

The influence of land rights on resource uses among the Gwich in and the Iñupiat

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In 1971, the American State of Alaska introduced anew body of land rights in a way it has not been donebefore. For the first time in history, indigenouspeople were organized in industrial stakeholdercorporations with the aim of generating profits offtheir traditional lands, redistributing them throughshares. The Natives call for a final land rights solution wasjoined by the industry and answered by the StateGovernment after the discovery of commerciableamounts of oil in the 1960s on the North Slope ofAlaska. Most of the native groups, by then partlyintegrated into mainstream American society, ...