| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska. By Stephen Haycox. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. xii + 180 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliographical essay, index. $21.95, paper.)

Since statehood in 1959, and particularly since the Prudhoe Bay oil discovery a decade later, Alaska has experienced the extremes of rampant resource development and wilderness preservation coupled with remote-village and booster-urban lifestyles. This saga has been the source of extensive writing by journalists from John McPhee and Joe McGinnis to Barry Lopez and John Strohmeyer. With Frigid Embrace, Stephen Haycox provides the long needed historical base to this discussion. 1

The particular strength that Haycox brings to the volume is his intimate knowledge of Alaska natives and their political and economic development. This has been missing in earlier commentaries. He shows their involvement in the drafting of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) and dispels previously negative assessments that the act was doomed to fail. Instead, Haycox shows how ANCSA with its thirteen regional corporations, placed Alaska Natives in a position of political and economic power unrivaled by Native Americans in most other states. . . .

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