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In 1971 the U.S. government created the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act and extinguished Alaska Native aboriginal rights to
hunting and fishing-forever changing the way Alaska Natives could
be responsible for their way of life. The Alaska Department of Fish
and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed all
wildlife management responsibility and have since told Natives
when, where, and how to fish, hunt, and harvest according to
colonial management doctrines. We need only look at our current
Alaska salmon conditions to see how these management efforts have
worked. In My Side of the River, agricultural specialist Elias
Kelly (Yup'ik) relates how traditional Native subsistence hunting
is often unrecognized by government regulations, effectively
criminalizing those who practice it. Kelly alternates between
personal stories of friends, family, and community and legal
attempts to assimilate Native Alaskans into white U.S. fishing and
hunting culture. He also covers landownership, incorporation of
Alaska residents, legal erasure of Native identity, and poverty
rates among Native Alaskans. In this memoir of personal and public
history, Kelly illuminates the impact of government regulations on
traditional life and resource conservation.
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