All too often, accounts of Mr. Seward’s Alaska Purchase consign the Native Alaskan peoples effected by the 1867 Treaty of Cession to the background of a dramatic saga involving Russia and the United States, a late-night chess match between William Seward and Baron Eduard de Stoeckl. But, in many ways, the story of Alaskan Native American legal rights begins with the document these men forged. Legal expert Roger Manning traces the century of Native Alaskan policy and politics that followed.