| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960–1971. By Donald Craig Mitchell. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2001. x, 679 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-889963-23-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-889963-24-0.)

The 1971 announcement that the United States Congress had passed an act designed to address unresolved Aboriginal land and resource claims has proven to be a pivotal event in the post–World War II era. The settlement breathed new life into Aboriginal claims in the United States and abroad and was often cited in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries as an impetus for more aggressive political and legal action on the part of Aboriginal organizations and peoples. Donald Craig Mitchell's first work, Sold American: A Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land (1997), told the story up through Alaskan statehood. In this impressive second volume, he carries the account through to the passage of the settlement act in 1971 and provides the first detailed description of the manner in which the debate over Aboriginal land rights in Alaska moved onto the national stage.

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