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.
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. ...
Title from image. Three women between totem poles on path in front of building. Verso: From a long distance the totem poles announced to the visitor that he was approaching the Alaskan Building. These totem poles, with the Alaskan Indians,...
Title from verso. Photograph of a young woman from Savoonga. The photo has been marked for cropping. Verso reads: "Seattle, Wash. -- The Coast Guard Cutter, Northwind, "battle-scarred" veteran of polar region expeditions, recently...
According to a Jan. 2, 2010, e-mail from Harold Jacobs, Cultural Resource Specialist of Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, "This was probably a 'shoreboat' in Sitka. ...
Title taken from caption. "11539 -- (41) In thinly-populated Alaska, the native villages are to be found along the streams. This is readily accounted for by the fact that the water affords the Indian natives almost their only source of...
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.
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
Physical description: 13 pages, handwritten on yellow legal-sized sheets. Places mentioned: Auk Bay (Alaska) ; Auk Village (Alaska) ; Berners Bay (Alaska) ; Cape St. Elias (Alaska) ; Douglas (Alaska) ; Douglas Island (Alaska) ; Fairheaven...