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Alaska-Canada border. In addition, the English started perma- 

 nent white settlement in Interior Alaska, also based upon fur 

 trading and an occupation still practiced there. 



4) The Russians may not have discovered the Territory. This 

 fact, when proved, might be a blow to Soviet morale which has 

 been supported by a succession of claimed "firsts" and the com- 

 plaint that Alaska was not legally sold to the United States. 



5) New Alaskan settlement might be conceived as permanent 

 on a basis other than agricultural. There is discordance between 

 the pattern of permanent Russian settlements and areas now 

 classified as physically suitable for agriculture. This lack of 

 agreement suggests that agricultural development may not be 

 the climax, as so often is implied, or even a stage in the develop- 

 ment of at least parts of the Territory. 



Finally, we are, of course, greatly in need of facts. Alaska 

 has been occupied under United States' ownership for only 83 

 years. Even the total history of white men in the Territory, 

 more than 200 years, is a short time. Our available knowledge 

 for planning new settlement is too scanty to permit neglect 

 of any information or hypotheses. To these data must be added 

 those from geographic analyses of the Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, 

 and non-native population of Alaska between 1867 and the 

 present time. Through this research program it is possible to 

 acquire some of the facts needed in order that the inevitable 

 growth of Alaskan population may be guided so as to take place 

 in an orderly manner. 



REFERENCES 



1. Anonymous. The population of the Russian American colonies. 



Zhurnal Ministerstva Vnutrennykh, Diel 13, 1834. (In 

 Russian). 



2. Anonymous. Statistical outline of Russian possessions in Amer- 



ica, in Contributions to the knowledge of the Russian Empire 

 and the bordering countries of Asia. Zhurnal Ministerstva 

 Narodnago Prosvieshcheniia, 37, (2), pp. 45-70. January 1843. 

 (In Russian). 



3. Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. Atlas of Award, British Atlas, 



and U. S. Atlas. U. S. Senate Document No. 162, 58th Con- 

 gress, 2nd Session, Washington, D. C. 1904. 



