...acquired territory, was the Tlingits didn't think their ancestral homeland was the Russians' to sell. The military commander in Alaska, Jefferson Davis, served as governor of the area and enforced the rule of the United States with the cannon...

...nonlegislator - made in the Alaska Senate in 1945. World War II brought the matter of discrimination to a boil. The military commander in Alaska ordered soldiers to avoid businesses that catered to all races. The arrest of a Native girl who sat with her...

...nonlegislator - made in the Alaska Senate in 1945. World War II brought the matter of discrimination to a boil. The military commander in Alaska ordered soldiers to avoid businesses that catered to all races. The arrest of a Native girl who sat with her...