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Alaska Native leaders look back on statehood

02-04-2009, 01:13 PM

Kitchikan, Alaska (AP)

How have Alaska Natives fared under statehood? Has it been a good thing, a bad thing or just one more thing in the long story of contact with Caucasian society?

The Ketchikan Daily News interviewed several local Alaska Native leaders regarding the coming of statehood 50 years ago.

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