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Alaska Natives and American Laws

Name: Alaska Natives and American Laws
Author: David S. Case
ISBN: 9780912006093

by David S. Case

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Overview

Today's newspaper headlines overflow with legal struggles about "Indian Country" and battles over rights to fish and game: never have Alaska Natives found themselves more engaged with workings of the law. These circumstances demanded a reprint of this book. Originally published in 1984, Alaska Natives and American Laws is the most comprehensive historical and legal analysis of the application of the principles of federal Indian law to Alaska Natives. Many people assumed passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971 extinguished the special legal status of Alaska Natives as aboriginal people - in other words, the general principles of the federal Indian law supporting special federal welfare benefits, inherent tribal authority, special land rights and Native subsistence henceforward did not apply to Alaska Natives. This book challenges those interpretations.

About the Author, David S. Case

David Case is recipient of the 1998 Denali Award from the Alaska Federation of Natives for his 25 years of "Dedication and Service to the Alaska Native Community." He was counsel to the Alaska Native Review Commission under Hon. Thomas S. Berger, and was principal author of the Katie John amicus brief for over 20 Alaska Native organizations. He also has nearly 20 years of private practice representing Alaska Native village corporations, tribes, and rural municipalities. He has taught Native law and governance at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and conducts tribal court and tribal government training for the National Judicial College and throughout the state.

David Avraham Voluck is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a bachelor's degree focusing on comparative religion. He then went on to graduate from the North-western School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in 1995 where he received his certificate in environmental and natural resources law and was inducted into the Cornelius Honor Society. He accepted employment with the Sitka Tribe of Alaska as their trust resources attorney and was promoted to Director of the Department of Law and Trust Resources after two and a half years.