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George P. Charles, PhD, Director of the National Resource Center for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Elders, University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99577, 907-786-6588, ffgpc@uaf.edu

This session will first describe who the Alaska Natives were before contact. A historical chronology will describe the dynamics of contact first with Czarist Russio and the United States of America. The cultural clash between the Alaska Natives and the Outsiders will be reviews with descriptions of the after effects of cultural disruption that are still at play in the present, such as but not limited to the effects of Christianity, diseases, imposition of Western educational policies and laws, language and cultural deprivation, and other related hegemonic factors imposed by the West. A brief historical review of the legal relationship between the Alaska Natives and the federal government will also be covered.

The present day role of the Alaska Natives will be discussed in relationship to self-determination ad sovereignty.

Learning Objectives:

• To describe briefly who Alaska Natives are
• To provide a historical description of contact with Russia and the USA to the present
• To discuss nation to nation relationships between the USA and Alaska Natives
• To describe the effects of cultural disruption and related hegemonic factors that still affect the Alaska Natives.

Keywords: Indigenous Populations,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

Recorded presentation