fun fact the month the Soviet Union collapsed congress repealed the part of the law that said white people aren't allowed to have any power on Alaskan Native councils, starting a cottage industry of white people flying bush planes out over native villages with valueable mineral or oil deposits that white people used to legally not be able to get to without negotiating a beneficial deal with the local council to air-drop crates of hard drugs for free to get native people hooked so they'd abandon everyone & everything they know to get to anchorage & sell off their voting share on the local native council that they inherited (which is worth money, some of them get so many dividends from the council redistributing mineral & oil rights to their community that they all just live off of that & have free council-paid healthcare for life) in exchange for a fix before being left for dead to freeze to the pavement at night in the Anchorage winter in something that looks suspiciously like the US genociding indigenous people with smallpox blankets.