{"title":"\"She Likes Fish Camp\": Legal History and Alaska Native Subsistence Practices in Diane Lxéis Benson's play River Woman","authors":"T. Swensen","doi":"10.1353/wic.2020.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores a set of laws concerning land ownership and subsistence rights in Alaska that have come to affect an Alaska Native family in the play River Woman. The drama shows how the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as well as the Homestead Act string together to break up domestic relations and Indigenous traditions.","PeriodicalId":343767,"journal":{"name":"Wicazo Sa Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Wicazo Sa Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2020.0002","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay explores a set of laws concerning land ownership and subsistence rights in Alaska that have come to affect an Alaska Native family in the play River Woman. The drama shows how the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as well as the Homestead Act string together to break up domestic relations and Indigenous traditions.