Category: Subsistence
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. 8. Subsistence and the Law: "Carrying on the subsistence lifestyle without interference from the law is a thing of the past. Traditional ways of hunting, fishing, and gathering are now subject to politicial and legal changes and challenges in what may well be Alaska's most bitter controversy. Discussion of the new role of Alaska Natives as treaty-makers and game managers."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; 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; 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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