Drucker, Philip. The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1958.
Successes and failures of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia. The author mentions the factionalism, quality of leadership, and other factors beyond the Brotherhoods’ control.
Haycox, Stephen and M.C. Mangusso (eds). An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past. Seattle: University of Alaska Press, 1996 (second printing 2002).
A collection of selected articles written by various authors centering on the history of Alaska from Russian purchase to the 1960s. The volume attempts to provide interpretations of significant events in Alaska history, foucusing on political, social, economic, and environmental history.
Kohlhoff, Dean. When the Wind was a River: Aleut Evacuation in World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with Aleutian/Pribilof Association, Anchorage, 1995.
Narrative of the relocation and evacuation experiences of the Aleut during World War II. Kohlhoff follows the Aleut through the evacuation experience to their return to the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, and successful attempts at getting restitution for the dislocation and suffering they experienced, using written documents and oral accounts of Aleut survivors.
Light, David P. Brothers in Harmony: The Haines Alaska Native Brotherhood Founders. Anchorage: D.P. Light, 2002.
Mitchell, Donald Craig. Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959: The Army to StatehoodHanover: Dartmouth College: University Press of New England, 1997.
The first of two volumes, Sold American tells the history of the U.S. governments relationships with Alaskan Natives to statehood.
___________. Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress’s History Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001.
Account of the state and national struggle over indigenous land and resource rights in Alaska. Mitchell's first volume, Sold American: A Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land (1997), focused on Alaskan history to statehood. His second volume continues the story to the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, focusing on the political processes, negotiations, and frustrations surrounding indigenous rights.
Black, Lydia T. "Ivan Pank'kove: Architect of Aleut Literacy." Arctic Anthropology 14 (1977): 94-107.
Anthropology professor Lydia Black discusses how Ivan Pan'kov, an Aleut man, played a significant role in developing a Fox Aleut alphabet and bringing literacy to the Aleut people in the 19th century. Pan'kov worked with Ioann Veniaminov, who is usually credited with developing the Aleut alphabet (article is reprinted in An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past, edited by Stephen W. Haycox and Mary M. Mangusso).
Cole, Terrence M. "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (November 1992), 429-49.
In this article, Cole discusses the anti-discrimination act of 1945 by focusing on three elements: Ernest Gruening's sensitivity to Native issues, the Alaska Native Brotherhood and most importantly, the letter of Alberta Schenck, an young Native woman who was arrested for sitting in the white section in a Nome Theater.
Gibson, James R. "Russian Dependence on the Natives of Alaska." S. Federick Starr, ed., Russia's American Colony (Durham: Duke University PRess, 1987), 77-104.
In this article the author discusses the Russian dependence on the Aleut and the Tlingit. Gibson argues against the notion of European self-reliancy and stresses Native agency, stating that the Russians depended on the Natives for food, technology, labor, and companionship (article is reprinted in An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past, edited by Stephen W. Haycox and Mary M. Mangusso).
Haycox, Stephen W. "Economic Development and Indian Land Rights in Modern Alaska: The 1947 Tongass Timber Act." Western Historical Quarterly 21 (February 1990): 20-46.
___________. "Sheldon Jackson in Historical Perspective: Alaska Native Schools and Mission Contracts, 1884-1894." Pacific Historian (Spring 1984).
___________. "'Races of a Questionable Ethnical Type': Origins of the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, 1867-1885." Pacific Northwest Quarterly (October 1984).
___________. "William Paul and the Alaska Voter's Literacy Act of 1925." Alaska History (Winter 1986).
Philp, Kenneth R. "The New Deal and Alaskan Natives, 1936-1945." Pacific Historical Review 50 (1981).
In this article, Philp discusses the Alaska Reorganization Act of 1936, an addition to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The author explains how Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes attepmted to persuade the Tlingit and Haida Indians to accept the creation of reservations in Alaska to protect land claims (article is reprinted in An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past, edited by Stephen W. Haycox and Mary M. Mangusso).
Schneider, William. "Chief Sesui and Lieutenant Herron: A Story of Who Controls the Bacon." Alaska History 1 (Fall/Winter 1985): 1-85.
In this article, Schneider discusses the 1899 expeditions of Lieutenant Joseph Herron to the Upper Kuskokwim, and argues that had it not been for Athabascan Chief Sesui and his people, Herron and his men would have perished (Article is reprinted in An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past, edited by Stephen W. Haycox and Mary M. Mangusso).
Wyatt, Victoria. "Female Native Teachers in Southeast Alaska: Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard." Margaret Szasz, ed., Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 179-96.
In this article, the author illustrates the careers of three female Alaska Native educators: Sarah Dickinson, Tillie Paul, and Frances Willard. Tillie Paul and Frances Willard. Wyatt discusses their acceptance of Christianity and subsequent rejection of certain Native traditions (article is reprinted in An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past, edited by Stephen W. Haycox and Mary M. Mangusso).
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