Monthly Archives: July 2010

Part 1 – Reorienting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act village corporations to build resilient communities. The other two identified areas in the strategy are using municipal governments in Tlingit Country to protect Tlingit interests and using the clan system for … Continue reading →

White lobster men of Maine practice clan/tribe based resource management of common property via their “kin” or harbor gang system. James Acheson, an anthropologist at the University of Maine, has studied Maine’s closely-knit fishing communities for many years. He has … Continue reading →

White lobster men of Maine practice clan/tribe based resource management of common property via their “kin” or harbor gang system. James Acheson, an anthropologist at the University of Maine, has studied Maine’s closely-knit fishing communities for many years. He has … Continue reading →

Cross post from Lingit Latseen Tee-Hit-Ton Indians vs. The United States More on this later, but this court decision between the Tee Hit Ton clan of the Shtax’héen Kwáan and the United States really highlights the clash between two fundamentally … Continue reading →

To expand on the ideas here: Our way forward is to embrace our past The traditional forms of commonly owned tribe and clan property have been the economic arrangements that have sustained our people for thousands of years. Recently our … Continue reading →

Lingit Latseen is forming a Tlingit Attack the System group. Read the about page and an article regarding traditional Tlingit education and the clan system of ownership here. Image Credit to Duane Pasco

From the About page: American Indian/Alaskan Native Attack the System is a newly founded organization dedicated to a pan-tribal secession from the United States government and the establishment of truly independent and free tribal nations throughout the North American continent. … Continue reading →