An Alaskan former politician and Native rights activist explains how Alaska came to be American – and what that meant for the state’s Native population.
- Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.
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