Category: Nat'l/Int'l Land Claims
One in a series of 30 minute radio documentaries "...which features to voices of Alaska Natives as they struggle for more control over their lives...Jim Sykes originally recorded the hearings of the Alaska Native Review Commission (ANRC) on location in Alaska's remote villages. ANRC Commissioner, Canadian Judge Thomas R. Berger, traveled throughout Alaska to find out how the people feel about their most basic values and the effects on them..."¹ by ANCSA. 14. Other Settlements with Indigenous Peoples: "The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act inspired other indigenous peoples in the world to seek land claims settlements with their countries. This program will look at those efforts in Canada, Greenland, Australia, Norway, and elsewhere. Now some of the land claims proposals of others are being studied by Alaskans seeking to improve ANCSA."²
Other programs in the series: 1. The People, the Land, and the Law; 2. The Land and Sea; 3. Subsistence--A Way of Life; 4. Sovereignty--What It Means to People; 5. Traditional Councils and Corporate Boardrooms; 6. The Land and the Corporations; 7. Risking and Saving the Land; 8. Subsistence and the Law; 9. Sovereignty--How It Works in Real Life; 10. The Newborns--Left Out of ANCSA; 11. From Hunter, Fisher, Gatherer to Corporate Director; 12. Changing the Claims Act--The Key Players; 13. Recommendations of the Alaska Native Review Commission; 15. The Dream versus the Reality; and Special Program: Berger's Recommendations.
¹ "Village Voices," Alaska Native Magazine 1985: 22.
² "Village Voices," Alaska Native Magazine 1985: 24.

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