Tag: Rural economies

Subsistence News-6/3/94

To   Subsistence 2

From:      Larry Roberts:R10F02A

Postmark:  Jun 03,94  7:55 AM          Delivered: Jun 03,94 10:02 AM

Status:    Previously read

Subject: Subsistence News-6/3/94

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*The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) has rejected Governor Watler Hickel’s recent proposal to end the state’s subsistence dilemma.

*AFN believes the Native community compromised its land and resources in 1971 with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. They believe they have already compromised, and existing ANILCA subsistence language is minimal at best.

*Rural families use money to purchase basic goods and services. Money is used to invest in the tools for subsistence hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering.

*There is a common misconception that there is no money exchanged in traditional subsistence economies. However, trade and commerce have always been part of subsistence systems.

*Rural economies operate differently than urban ecomomies. In Alaska today, the rural communities function as “mixed economies”, where families and communities live by combining wild resources with limited commerical-wage employment.

*Rural monetary jobs tend to be few, unstable, and small income producers. Economic activiy tends to be in family groups, rather than in business firms. Economic ventures tend to be small, and benefit the family group or community.