Are there Indian Reservations in Alaska?
Yes, but they are not the government mandated kinds of reservations which did so much damage to indigenous Americans in the Lower 48. In fact, there are just two small reservations in the state — Venetie about 200 miles north of Fairbanks; and Metlakatla, in Southeast Alaska. Reservation status was requested by the residents to give them certain sovereign rights granted under federal law. That is not to say that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was benign in damage to Native cultures in Alaska. And Western culture brought disease and other problems. But Alaska Natives have never been consigned by law to designated reservations.
