Category: General ANCSA
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. 12. Changing the Claims Act--The Key Players: "Nearly every Native organization in the state is jumping on the let's do something about ANCSA bandwagon. What began as a grassroots dissatisfaction with the act has now shifted into a well-organized movement. There is the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, The United Tribes of Alaska, the Alaska Federation of Natives, and Association of Village Council Presidents, and others."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; 13. Recommendations of the Alaska Native Review Commission; 14. Other Settlements with Indigenous Peoples; 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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