When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).

When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).

When asked what he considered to be his greatest achievement as Secretary of State, Seward replied " The purchase of Alaska — but it will take the people a generation to find it out ".

When American Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step in a comprehensive plan to gain control of the entire northwest Pacific Coast.

When American Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step in a comprehensive plan to gain control of the entire northwest Pacific Coast.

When exploiting distant food sources found in clearings, Gray Jays temporarily concentrated their caches in an arboreal site along the edge of a black spruce forest in interior Alaska.

When Alex was a boy growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, his father took the family for a flight in their airplane, which came under attack by a Shi ' ar spaceship.

When Lin received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he handed over a 16-page plan for a bridge linking Alaska and Siberia across the Bering Strait, a project he dubbed the Intercontinental Peace Bridge.

When the United States had first bought Alaska, vast regions of the area still remained unexplored.

When a false report circulated in April, soon after the Alaska news, that the British government was considering settling the claims by ceding the colony, a substantial annexation movement appeared supported by many British Columbians and three of the colony's six newspapers.

When the three smaller Alaska colleges ( UAS, APU and Sheldon Jackson ) all shut down their sports programs in 1990, leaving just the University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Alaska Fairbanks with intercollegiate athletics programs, it had an impact on the UAS campus, Griffin said.

When the United States became aware of Japanese plans to send a supply convoy to their forces on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, U. S. Navy ships commanded by Rear Admiral Charles McMorris were sent to prevent this.

When Hawaii and Alaska were admitted to the Union in 1959, both new states were granted one at-large Representative to Congress pending the next United States Census.

When Carlos Berlanga left the band, Nacho Canut and Alaska formed a new band, Fangoria in 1989.

:* When used on the basis of U. S. state legal nomenclature for political subdivisions, there are no " official towns " in the states of: Alaska, California, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, or Oregon.

When he visited Alaska, he hit upon the novel idea of the travelogue, movies about faraway places.

When Mount Augustine erupted in 1976, Johnston raced back to Alaska, shunting his former work on the Cimmaron Volcano into a master's thesis, and making Mount Augustine the focus of his Ph. D. work.

When Billings began publishing MHS's Bulletin under the Board's auspices, Hamilton countered by persuading Congress to fund new Marine Hospitals in locations like Sitka, Alaska, to strengthen collaboration with the Revenue Cutter Service ( predecessor to the United States Coast Guard ).

When Alaska Freight Lines's contract with Western Electric ran out it was soon left to rot.

When Thomas was only a year old, his father was posted to the, and the family moved to Sitka, Alaska, where a third child, Dorothy, was born in 1890.

When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.

When colonial rule was established and efficiency was sought, partly because of settler pressure, newly educated younger men were associated with old chiefs in local Native Councils.

When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out in South Asia, the 21st Native Infantry, then stationed in Karachi, declared allegiance to rebels and joining their numbers on 10 September 1857.

When the settlers brought iron, Native Americans switched to iron hoes and hatchets.

When Europeans arrived as colonists in North America, Native Americans changed their practice of slavery dramatically.

When African men married or had children by a Native American woman, their children were born free, because the mother was free ( according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrum, which the colonists incorporated into law.

When Céloron's expedition arrived at Logstown, the Native Americans in the area informed Céloron that they owned the Ohio Country and that they would trade with the British regardless of the French.

When the Haida and Tongass ( sea lion tribe Tlingit ) warriors refused to acknowledge American jurisdiction and to hand over those among them who had attacked the Puget Sound communities, a battle ensued in which 26 Native Americans and one government soldier were killed.

When English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, they soon came into conflict with the Native Americans ( whom they called " Indians ") as the newcomers competed for land, game and other resources.

When Missouri was first being settled, the Osage Native Americans were the only tribe between the Osage River and the Mississippi.

When they were eight or from home near the crossing of the Terre Bleu, they were met by the Native Americans and all, save Rebecca and Abraham Baker, were stripped of their clothing and left to find their way home in this plight ; the wagon loaded with venison, intended for the wedding feast, was also robbed.

When King Philip ’ s War broke out in 1675, the plundering of one house was the only hostile act in Sagadahoc County until August, 1676, at which point three settlements were attacked and 53 people taken captive by Native Americans.

" When James Cook encountered what he named the Sandwich Islands ( now the Hawaiian Islands ) in 1778, he found them inhabited by Native Hawaiians who Anglo-Americans referred to as " Owyhees.

When asked what the name of his town would be, he recalled an interesting encounter with two Native Americans the year before.

When the colonists arrived in this area, the Native American population dropped dramatically due to European diseases for which they had no immunity.

When the immigrants arrived they found openings in the forest made by the Native Americans, which were used to raise food.

When the Northern Pacific Railway's transcontinental rail line arrived in 1881, the town was renamed for Alfred Howe Terry, a General in the Union Army who commanded an 1876 expedition in connection with George Armstrong Custer ’ s campaign against Native Americans, specifically in the west.

When Europeans first entered the area, " Teaneck " referred to the north-south ridge that runs along present-day Queen Anne Road, with Lenni Lenape Native Americans having established camps on either side of the ridge.

When the Crown refused to return their land after the war, most Wappingers abandoned the area and joined with other displaced Native Americans elsewhere.

When many of the Native American groups were moved onto reservations in what is now Oklahoma, towns and trading posts were established.

When the first Euro-American explorers arrived in what is now the Mountain City area in the late 17th-century, well-worn Native American trails passed through the area.

When this move took place ( 1867 – 68 ) there were approximately 100 pioneers and 500 Native Americans living here.