Alaska Alive

By erbarnes05

  • Initial Russian Settlement Near Kheuveren River

  • Vitus Bering - documents Bering Strait

  • European Exploration begins (Russia and Spain)

  • Vitus Bering and George Stellar "discovered" Alaska near Kayak Island

  • James Cook sails into Cook Inlet

  • First European Settlement at Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island

  • First Russian settlement established on Kodiak Island at Three Saints

  • Period: to

    Russian-American Co. conducts expanded colonization settling much of SE Alaska

  • Russian Orthodox Missionaries

  • Homestead Act of 1862

  • United States negotiates Alaska Purchase from Russia

  • Gold Discovered near Sitka

  • Organic Act, organizing a civil government and creating the District of Alaska

  • 60,000 people arrive in search of gold

  • Period: to

    Klondike Gold Rush

    over 100,000 prospectors come to seek their fortunes

  • Homestead Act - extended

    Homestead act of 1862 extended to Alaska Territory allowing settlers to claim 160 acres of land

  • Capital moved from Sitka to Juneau

  • Period: to

    Nelson Act

    establishes two separate education systems—one for Alaska Native students under the federal government/Office (later Bureau) of Indian Affairs

  • Tongass National Forest established

  • Incorporated as an organized territory and capital established in Juneau

  • Novarupta explosion

  • Snyder Act (Indian Citizenship Act)

    grants U.S. citizenship to "all noncitizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States" without terminating their tribal rights

  • Race to Nome

    diptheria epidemic in Nome - 20 sled dog teams travel 674 miles from Nenana to Nome to deliver the life saving serum

  • Johnson O'Malley Act

    authorizing programmatic federal funding for Native students
  • Period: to

    Almost 24federally funded BIA schools transferred to Alaska Territorial Department of Education

  • Statehood approved by United States Congress

  • Good Friday Earthquake

  • Alaska Federation of Natives is incorporated

  • Oil discovered in Prudhoe Bay

  • Period: to

    Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline

  • Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)

    government pays nearly $1b
    44 million acres return to Alaska Native
  • Period: to

    Molly Hootch Case

    27 Alaska Native students file for local high schools in Alaska Native Villages

  • North Slope Borough Created

  • The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)

  • Exxon Valdez spill

  • AFN Report on the Status of Alaska Natives: A Call for Action