History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History

History 162: Lecture 19 THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME Nome, Alaska, 1979 The Seward Peninsula: Where the West Begins and Ends Alaska as Microcosm of Western American History Contact, Colonialism, and Cultural Change The World the Natives Lost The Compression of Post-Contact History First Contacts and Material Adaptations Commercial Whaling and Cultural Change Sheldon Jackson and the Reformation of Eskimo Culture Federal Policy Disease, Liquor, and Despair Boom and Bust The Nome Gold Rush of 1898 Eskimo Migration to Nome World War and Cold War Northering in the Twentieth Century The Land Claims Era Politicization of Native Alaskans Alaska Statehood Act and the Threat to Native Landholdings Formation of Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) Closing Words The Exxon Valdez Wallace Stegner: "A Society to Match the Scenery" Visuals     Alaska