In 1912, officially organized and developed the leadership of Southeast Alaska and for alaska natives out of that group. The alaska native brotherhood is where the nucleus of the native power was organized, where it was developed, and where the leadership came from. The alaska native brotherhood endorsed the statehood act. They wanted statehood because it would give them a larger voice, they felt, with representatives back in congress and better control and out from under the bias thumbs. People dont realize how federalized we were in rural alaska, the native community under the bia. Narrator former colonel and now delegate marvin muktuk marston had worked with governor gruening to enlist alaska natives into the territorial guard during world war ii. It was an Early Warning scout brigade to watch out for japanese landings on mainland alaska. Now he wanted alaska to recognize native land claims. Marston was, no doubt, the most eloquent and impassioned defender of what h were the best fo
But for the people of alaska, one persistent vision was to become americans, a vision thwarted for 92 years by powerful commercial interests that ruled the territory from a distance and a federal government that seemed at best indifferent. In 1955, alaskans took a major step toward selfgovernment when they wrote the constitution they hoped would help make the territory a state. This is the story of that constitution and how alaskans won the right to govern themselves. In retrospect, i think we did as good a job as could have been done, and i think that the constitution has fully stood the test of time. It was designed to be adaptable to the future, to be a lasting document like the u. S. Constitution. Well, it was a big gamble, except it was a gamble we had to take because we wouldnt get another opportunity. They came here because they were trying to create, literally, a new world based upon lets do it right this time. That was heard more times at the convention. We dont care how you d
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Happy Valley resident Rex Hanks began his own private cemetery in the winter of 1951. By the end of 1958, the little graveyard’s inhabitants numbered four. The problem was that Hanks and his wife didn’t own the cemetery land. Kenai Peninsula road-builders had other plans for that location, so all the graves had to be moved.
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