Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, Summer camp of Indians on Copper River". "At Copper River, a half-mile or more wide, we found a camp of Indians who ferried us across, and a day later we were at Tonsina Station." Additional...
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Remainder of title: , and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgement upon any and all claims which said Indians may have, or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes.
Title from cataloger. Photograph of people from Stephens Village travelling by canoe to Tanana for their annual trip. Narrative in the album reads: "The above pictures were taken by Mr. Paul Shultz in the spring and summer of 1910 before our...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Sign in image: Graves of Russian midshipman and six sailors killed in battle with Kiki-Siti Indians in 1804. Small picket fence surrounds a gravesite marked by a wooden Orthodox style cross.