Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native
land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic,
and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the
indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent
role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on
field research conducted by the author during his nine-year
residency in the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major
conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain
control over their land claims to the Native alienation from the
corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in
tribalism. He shows that while the forces of modernism and
traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by
the structures of co-management, corporate development, and
self-government created by the region's comprehensive land claims
settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements
of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that
the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into
something else altogether in the North: a peaceful force to spawn
the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.
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