A Moment in Time: ANCSA - The Anchorage Museum

Use this booklet with 7-12 grade students to investigate the history and events surrounding the 1971 passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). In its pages, you will find content, writing, drawing, and activity prompts to help students engage with primary source newspapers and archival images relating to land ownership and Alaska Native land claims. The teacher resource guide contains extension activities, additional primary sources, and further background information to help facilitate the use of this booklet in the classroom or at home.

Thank you to the Alaska State Library, Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, and Tuzzy Consortium Library for their generosity in sharing several archival images for inclusion as primary sources in this booklet.

Investigate ANCSA and Alaska's histories further in the Alaska Exhibition, on permanent view at the Anchorage Museum.

Resource Information

Audience/Grade

7 8 9 10 11 12 6 Teens and Adults

Standards

Culturally Responsive History and Social Studies

Topics

Visual Literacy Alaska Native Cultures Alaska History

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Print this booklet double-sided on a standard 8.5"x11" paper and fold in half.

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Stewart Udall speaks at the Tundra Times banquet; photograph by Jimmy Bedford; TT.00523; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Protestors at the Oil Lease Sale in 1969; TT.00526; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Pipe work. Chugach Mountains near crossing of the Tsana [sic] River; McCutcheon Collection, Anchorage Museum; b1990.14.3.1358

A Famous Howard Rock photograph, Seattle 1934; TT.01155; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Howard Rock typing on an old fashioned typewriter; TT.01189; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Howard Rock takes one last at Dec. 3, 1975 issue; photograph by Sue Gamache; TT.01167; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Tundra Times Volume IX, Number 15 (December 22, 1971); courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Gov. Hickel meeting with Native Leaders; Alaska State Library portrait file, Alaska State Library, ASL-P01-4686

Howard Rock (left) looks on while Harry Carter, executive director of AFN, talks about the tasks and challenges after the passage of ANCSA; TT.00891; photograph by Jimmy Bedford; courtesy of Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation and Tuzzy Consortium Library of Utqiagvik, Alaska

Krauss, Michael, Gary Holton, Jim Kerr, and Colin T. West. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska. Fairbanks and Anchorage: Alaska Native Language Center and UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research. Online: https://www.uaf.edu/anla/map