(3:46 min) (24 of 27) Road planning and obstacles
Mining drove some of the road planning, but ease was a factor as well. Kennecott and Anaconda Mines were reasons to try and reach Nome. Native Claims Act put lots of right-of-way issues in...
70 second, color with sound film clip. Emil Notti is interviewed about his run for U. S. Congress. He addresses the question of how the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement Act will play in the economy of Alaska, predicting that the 12 regional...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from verso. View of the audience attending the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (BLM ANCSA) hearing in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall (ANB) on Willoughby St, Juneau, on April 10, 1975. Original...
Exterior shot of the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Willoughby Street, Juneau. The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (BLM ANCSA) hearings were held here on April 10, 1975. Sign outside building reads "BLM Public...
Exterior of the Alaska Native Brotherhood hall in Sitka. Bureau of Land Management Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (BLM ANCSA) hearings were held here on April 11, 1975. Sign outside building reads "BLM Public Hearing 9am". A second sign...
Bureau of Land Management Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (BLM ANCSA) hearings taking place in the Alaska Native Brotherhood hall in Juneau, April 10, 1975. Members of the public in the foreground. At the top table, from left to right (from...
Bureau of Land Management Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (BLM ANCSA) hearings taking place in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, Sitka, April 11, 1975. Members of the public in the foreground. Left to right on stage (from verso): Neil R....
Title from sleeve. A man sits at a desk testifying before a Senate Finance and Resources Committee meeting on Alaska Native land claims. Committee members sit at tables facing him. Spectators sit in chairs along the far wall. Photographer's number:...
Title from sleeve. Man sits at a desk testifying before a Senate committee hearing on Alaska Native land claims. Six committee members sit facing him. Photographer's number: 9306. 2 1/4 B&W negative.
Title from verso. Verso: In the Fall of 1970, then Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel met with Prominent figures in the Alaska Land Claims dispute in his Washington office. Clockwise from far left: Wally Hickel; Tim Wallis, President...
This series was designed to invite instructors to explore the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act with Students. The Teachers Guide accompanies six video episodes that vary in length from 14-25 minutes.
Sec. of Interior Walter Hickel, far left, meeting with people involved in Alaska land claims dispute. From left to right: Tim Wallis, President Fairbanks Native Association; Charles Edwardsen, Executive Director Arctic Slope Native Association;...
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.