Breaking the Ice - From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic

Informationen zum Autor Barry Zellen is deputy editor, Strategic Insights, and research director of the Arctic security project at the Center for Contemporary Conflict. Klappentext Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and Aboriginal rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting political transformation as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland and their land claims agreements paved the way toward self-government. The book is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in the Western Arctic. Zusammenfassung Offers a study of the movement for native land claims and Aboriginal rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic! and the resulting political transformation as the indigenous peoples of the North gained a prominent role in the governance of their homeland and their land claims agreements paved the way toward self-government. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface: Breaking the Ice Chapter 3 1 Introduction Chapter 4 2 Alaska in the Age of Native Land Claims Chapter 5 3 After ANCSA: The Persistence of Subsistence Chapter 6 4 Land Claims Come to the NWT Chapter 7 5 Co-Management in Action: Balancing the Two Arctics Chapter 8 6 After Land Claims: Toward the Restoration of Tribal Sovereignty

Product details

• Authors: Barry Zellen, Barry Scott Zellen, Zellen Barry
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2008
• EAN: 9780739119426
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1942-6
• No. of pages: 419
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 159 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship