Town Law and Village Law: Satellite Villages, Bethel and Alcohol Control in the Modern Era — The Working Relationship and Its Demise

Authors

• Stephen Conn

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Description

In southwestern Alaska the underpinning of the working relationship between official law and village social control was tied to alcohol control. This paper examines the breakdown of this relationship in the 1960s and its impact on village law. It also assesses the role of town liquor policy and town police and treatment resources on alcohol-related violence in the villages in the 1970s. It argues that a recent movement to reinstitute prohibition of importation and sale in many villages must be understood as a desire for renewal of a working relationship between two centers of legal authority.

Publication Date

11-4-1982

Keywords

Alaska history, Alaska Natives, alcohol & alcohol abuse, Bethel, AK, bush justice, history, law enforcement, local option (alcohol), rural justice, traditional law ways

Recommended Citation

Conn, Stephen, "Town Law and Village Law: Satellite Villages, Bethel and Alcohol Control in the Modern Era — The Working Relationship and Its Demise" (1982). Conference papers. 2.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_justice_papers/2

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7352