Alaska Native Review Commission

The Alaska Native Review Commission was sponsored by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in 1984 and 1985. Canadian jurist Thomas Berger was hired to conduct hearings throughout Alaska regarding the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA). These hearings or village meetings were conducted in 61 towns and villages in Alaska, and in Seattle, Washington, from February 1984 to March 1985. Among the issues discussed during the hearings were lands, subsistence, and native sovereignty. The commission also held overview roundtable discussions in Anchorage from February 1984 to March 1985. The titles of these discussions were the following: The Spirit of ANCSA, ANCSA Institutions and Legal Regimes, International Overview, Subsistence, ANCSA and 1991, Alternate Approaches to Native Lands and Governance, and The Place of Native Peoples in the Western World.

From the description of Transcripts and audiotapes, 1984-1985. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 58803056

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