Dec. 17: This story has been updated [1]. SAXMAN, Alaska -- When the oil boom came to Alaska, Congress promised new economic opportunities for native peoples like the Cape Fox Tlingit. The Tlingit had wrested a subsistence life from the harsh coasts of southeast Alaska for thousands of years, only to see their villages destroyed, their resources exploited and their population wiped out by disease when white settlers came in the 19th century. In 1971, Congress passed a law intended to right the historic wrongs and compensate natives for construction of a new oil pipeline through their ancient lands. The...
