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Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

These film clips are a selection of Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) related holdings at the Alaska Film Archives at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Click here to see their full listing of ANCSA films as of 2020. Click on a thumbnail or title to view the movie.
Senator Ernest Gruening interviews Emil Notti about proposed federal legislation to settle land claims of Alaska Natives, circa 1960-1964. (AAF-2103; 4:28 min)	Harry Carter, executive director of the Alaska Federation of Natives, speaks about the history of Alaska Native land claims, 1972. (AAF-13176; 54:12 min)	Neil Bassett with the Bureau of Land Management speaks during a symposium on Alaska Native lands claims, circa 1975. (AAF-13175; 30:02 min)
Richard Hensel with the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior, speaks about the impact of ANCSA on Alaska wildlife refuges during a symposium on Alaska Native lands claims, Part 1, circa 1975. (AAF-13172; 1:03:25 min)	Richard Hensel with the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife, U.S. Department of the Interior, speaks about the impact of ANCSA on Alaska wildlife refuges during a symposium on Alaska Native lands claims, Part 2, circa 1975. (AAF-13173; 21:01 min)	The Alaska Review and Focus North news program examines the Alaska Native Review Commission which performed an independent review of ANCSA, and also touches upon Canada’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry of the mid-1970s, 1985. (AAF-5004; 29:22 min)

Some other ANCSA related film clips available online. For more ANCSA video material, see the "Digital Online Collections and Websites" (pages 970-1021) and "Other Media Collections" (pages 1022-1033) sections of the Guide to Sources for the Study of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Alaska Historical Society, July 2022).

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Joe Upicksoun, Arctic Slope Native Association, speaks at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and President Nixon announces signing of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, December 1971.
(From the collection of the Iñupiat History Language and Culture Commission, Utqiaġvik, Alaska; 3:17 min)

Listen to audio of Joe Upicksoun's full speech to AFN.

Alfred Ketzler, Sr. talks about the early land claims movement and efforts to get Congress to pass ANCSA. Excerpts of an interview with Dixie Dayo, February 17, 2010, Fairbanks, Alaska.
(Interview conducted as background for a web-based upper division/graduate level course titled “Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Pre-1971 to Present” (RD 493/693) taught by Gordon Pullar for the Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
DVD’s and digital copies of the interviews were donated to the UAF Oral History Collection in May 2022;
Part 1: 11:27 min, Part 2: 4:51 min)

Edgar Blatchford talks about the early implementation of ANCSA. Excerpts of an interview with Dixie Dayo, March 16, 2010, Anchorage, Alaska.
(Interview conducted as background for a web-based upper division/graduate level course titled “Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Pre-1971 to Present” (RD 493/693) taught by Gordon Pullar for the Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
DVD’s and digital copies of the interviews were donated to the UAF Oral History Collection in May 2022;
Part 1: 11:23 min, Part 2: 13:59 min, Part 3: 7:07 min)

"ANCSA and the Agents of Change." Panel discussion with early leaders of the Alaska Native land claims movement and their work for passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 2016.
(Produced by Denali Media for the Ted Stevens Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska; 2:00:12 min)