The Interrelationship between Alaska State Law and the Social Systems of Modern Eskimo Villages in Alaska: History, Present and Future Considerations

Authors

• Stephen Conn

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Description

Yup'ik and Inupiat villages in Alaska (the territory and the state) experienced a process of legal socialization that was strongly influenced by serious constraints in the allocation of resources. These constraints resulted in legal socialization into what was in essence a second legal state system and provided an opportunity for cultural autonomy by Eskimo villages, even though this de facto situation did not recognize these groups as sovereign tribes. The actual implementation of a single full-blown legal system in village Alaska in the mid-1970s has resulted in a loss of control and serious efforts by Alaska villages to reinstitute village law ways as tribal legal process.

Publication Date

8-13-1985

Keywords

Alaska history, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), Alaska Natives, bush justice, legal anthropology, local option (alcohol), rural justice, subsistence, traditional law ways, tribal government

Recommended Citation

Conn, Stephen, "The Interrelationship between Alaska State Law and the Social Systems of Modern Eskimo Villages in Alaska: History, Present and Future Considerations" (1985). Conference papers. 13.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_justice_papers/13

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9660