Talk:History of slavery in Alaska

I made efforts to clean up the worst excesses of this article. Among the sources for some of the material I deleted was a non-academic blog page and what appears to be a poorly written and perhaps unedited article from the Cascadia Times. The "Ebbits" referred to for instance, were vague referrals to the family of a 19th Century Tlingit chief, apparently sourced to what the blog author heard from a commercial tour guide. There were contradictory claims about the inspiration of a 19th Century totem pole featuring the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. A statement from the Cascadia Times dubiously claimed that federal officials did not recognize that the indigenous natives of the Pribilofs were U.S. citizens. Their citizenship was automatic, and under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, it did not require any applications from them to become such citizens of the U.S., as their citizenship was recognized as a legitimate birthright. The inclusion of a story about the exploitation of a handful of late 20th Century young women was nothing but an isolated, late 20th Century case of forcible prostitution and does not remotely belong within this article. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Activist (talk) 11:35, 13 September 2015 (UTC)