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Alaska Timeline

  • Berig's discovery of land

    prompts Russians to come looking for animal fur
  • "Steller's Sea Cow" extinct

  • Captain James Cook

    establish a British presence
  • First European Settlement Founded

  • Russian-American Company

    founded
  • Russian Orthodox Church Missionaries

  • Fort Yukon Trading Post

  • Russia sells AK to US

    The Tongass Tlingit Group objected - Russians can't sell what they do not own
  • Henry Seward purchases Alaska

    territory for 7.2 million
  • Gold found in Klondike

  • Sheldon Jackson

    Christian Soldier to educate Native Children, founded mission at Wrangell
  • St. Lawrence Island

    1500 Eskimoes die due to harsh winter and starvation after the destruction of whales and walrus' by Yankee whalers
  • Canneries

    Natives were excluded to work at them in Bristol Bay
  • First Organic Act

    1st Civil Gov./provided public education
  • Sheldon Jackson

    General Agent of Education
  • Bureau of Education

    running schools
  • Segregated Schooling Begins

  • Alaska continues to grow

    as more gold is found
  • Commercial Fishing

  • Ak Railroad

    being built
  • 23 Schools for Natives

  • Nelson Act

    est. 2 separate educational systems
  • 66 schools for Natives

  • Tongass National Park

    President Roosevelt places this land under protection
  • Official Territory of the U.S.

  • Jones Act

  • Orthodox Church - St. Paul Island

    closed by government
  • Snyder Act

    grants U.s. citizenship to all noncitizen Indians
  • Pres. Warren Harding

    1st president to visit AK
  • Meriam Report

    American Indians boarding schools are grossly inadequate, harsh punishment
  • Johnson O'Malley Act

    federal funding for Native students
  • Tlingit and Haida pursue land claims

  • Alaska-Canada Military Highway completed

  • Anti-discrimination Act passed

  • State Bird

    Willow ptarmigan
  • Alaska becomes 49th State

  • Alaska State Flower

    Forget-me-not
  • Good Friday Earthquake

  • Oil found in Prudhoe Bay

  • AK Native Claims Settlement Act

    Gov. pays a billion dollars and returns 44 million acres to AK natives
  • AK Native Claims Settlement Act

    signed by Pres. Nixon
  • Molly Hootch Case

    state to est. high schools where Elementary has a minimum of 8 students
  • AK Permanent Fund established

  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline

  • Wooly Mammoth

    fossil found
  • Call for Action

    Natives scores are in the 25th and 30th percentiles
  • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    in Prince William Sound
  • School Regulations

    Schools required to teach a list of subject areas
  • Sea Otters

    estimated 12,000
  • 7th Special Olympics World Winter Games

    held in Anchorage
  • Boarding School Abuses published

  • Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center

    Opens in Anchorage. Running of the Reindeer begins as Fur Rendezvous activity.
  • Pres. Barack Obama visits

  • Anchorage population

    reported as 291,826
  • Sea Otters

    estimated 27,500
  • Pres. Barack Obama visits

  • Sea Otters

    make a comeback in SE Alaska, fisherman not happy
  • Education Stats

    128,000 K- 12 students, 54 districts, 229 various tribes