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...city of Juneau (pop. 6,050) has been the capital of Alaska since 1900, and its site in the Panhandle of the state made it one of the Alaskan cities closest to the lower 48 states. But the modern era has made Juneau's once enviable position uncomfortably awkward...
...center has been involved in many other class action suits, including ones relating to students' rights and the right of native Alaskan children to public education. Without the resources of the Harvard center, it is unlikely that local agencies would have had the time or ability to litigate these cases successfully. Nor would neighborhood attorneys have had access to less dramatic forms of assistance, such as pamphlets sent them by the center to help with an individual's particular problem. Nor would they have access to the center's monthly publication. Inequality, which contains studies intended to aid local lawyers...
...North, according to the Museum of Fine Arts (where it continues through May 26), is "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled." The Tlingit Totem Pole still stands at the top of the grand stairs, and there's a bird whose picture The Crimson printed upside down and the Real Paper printed backwards...
...Delta gas reserves are not now large enough to justify Canada's proposed 50% share of the program's cost. And settling claims with the Eskimos and Indians whose ancestral lands the pipeline would cross could cost billions of dollars. "This is essentially a project to transport Alaskan gas to American consumers," says McGill University Economist Eric Kierans...
THAT ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...