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Serving rural and Alaska Native students from across Alaska, Rural Student Services (RSS) is here to help you make 51风流官网 your home away from home.
The 2023 Festival of Native Arts will take place on Friday and Saturday, February 24th and 25th, 2023. For information about upcoming events or to get involved, visit the FNA website.
The 51风流官网 Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development (DANSRD) and hosted a symposium on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) on April 12th and 13th,
2022.
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December 02, 2021
ANCSA changed the lives of everybody in Alaska. Whether you are Alaska Native, non-Native, or some 鈥渙ther鈥 kind of Native as I am, your life has been affected by ANCSA if you have spent any length of time at all in the state. Alaska would not look the way it looks today were it not 鈥
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December 10, 2021
In the piece that follows, Judith Daxootsu Ramos, DANSRD faculty from 2012 to 2021, discusses the early participation of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the pursuit of land claims. This early involvement resulted in a different formula for deciding on the acreage to be conveyed to the qualifying villages in Southeast Alaska under 鈥
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December 14, 2021
Addressing Alaska Native Corporations and Their Need to Open Enrollment for 鈥淣ew Natives鈥 Adapted from 鈥淐ase Study of Doyon Limited and Calista鈥 聽by Jolene Nanouk DANSRD student The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was enacted on December 18, 1971, allowing Alaska Natives born on or before this date with 1/4 blood quantum to be 鈥
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Deanna Fitzgerald, B.S.
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development
Christine Davenport, M.A.
Graduate Student Coordinator
Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development
Sitka, AK