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

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Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for place of origin claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an more and more prominent role within the governance in their hometown. This work is in line with field research conducted by the writer all the way through his nine-year residency within the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain keep an eye on over their land claims to the Native alienation from the corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in tribalism. He shows that even as the forces of modernism and traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by the structures of co-management, corporate development, and self-government created by the region’s comprehensive land claims settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into something else altogether within the North: a peaceful force to spawn the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.

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