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in live reindeer in Alaska. By 1989 the regulations were challenged in court, resulting in a legal distinction between reindeer imported after 1937 by non-Natives and the Native herds. Between 1937 and 1940, the herd population declined drastically as reindeer joined native herds of caribou or were
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by non-Native Americans. The act was intended to provide for Alaskan natives and to allow them to establish a self-sustaining industry. Authority to promulgate rules regarding the ownership and maintenance of reindeer herds was delegated to the
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An Act to provide subsistence for the Eskimos and other natives of Alaska by establishing for them a permanent and self-sustaining economy; to encourage and develop native activity in all branches of the reindeer industry; and for other
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were required to sell their herds to the government, and many left Alaska after doing so.
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on September 1 of that year. The act effectively prohibited the ownership of
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lost on the range. A 1997 decision opened ownership to non-natives.
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For sixty years the Reindeer Act maintained a native and government
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by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 1, 1937
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Great Seal of the United States
75th United States Congress
75-413
Statutes at Large
Stat.
900
25 U.S.C.: Indians
U.S.C.
25 U.S.C.
ch. 14, subch. VII
Elmer Thomas
D
OK
Senate Indian Affairs
House Rules
House Territories
United States federal law
U.S. Congress
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
reindeer
Alaska
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Secretary of the Interior
Norwegian
Swedish
Sami people
Lapland
Alaskan Sami
monopoly

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