Written for students at the secondary level, this textbook on Alaska Native land claims includes nine chapters, eight appendices, photographs, maps, graphs, bibliography, and an index. Chapters are titled as follows: (1) Earliest Times (Alaska's first settlers, eighteenth century territories, and other claimants); (2) American Indians and Their Lands (the dispossessed, three centuries earlier, European attitudes, treaties, congressional action, and Federal services); (3) Alaska Natives and Their Lands (new migrants, encroachments, unacknowledged title, renewed promise); (4) The Land Claims Struggle (new threats to land rights, alternative solutions, organization, proposed legislation, a strengthened case, improved prospects, a legislative settlement); (5) The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: An Introduction (land and money, the corporation as vehicle, Alaska Native corporations; (6) Settlement Act organizations (regional business corporations, local business corporations, and other organizations); (7) The Money Settlement (sources, payments to individuals, funding for village corporations, and funding for regional corporations); (8) The Land Settlement (village corporation selections, limitations on selections, individuals and some others, regional corporations, corporations as land owners, and the public); (9) Shaping the Future (self-determination, goals of corporations, and responsibilities). (JC)