Documents

Article in Alaska Medicine, "Alaskan Psychiatry-Interim Report" by J. Ray Langdon, M.D. In Alaska Medicine March 1959

Alaska Senator Bob Bartlett's comments before the U.S. Senate on misinformation about "Alaska Siberia," August 3, 1966. In Congressional Record, 89th Congress, 2nd Sess., Vol. 112, Part 14, p. 18018.

"Mental Health and Retardation in Alaska: Report on Impressions and Suggestions From a Limited Survey." By Daniel Blain, M.D. for the State of Alaska, Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Mental Health, September 1964.

"Detaining the Insane. Detention Hospitals, Mental Health,and Frontier Politics in Alaska, 1910-1915." By Thomas G. Smith in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3, July 1982, pp 124-133. Not digitally available. For more information, contact: Pacific Northwest Quarterly.

Final Court Order finalizing Mental Health Trust Lawsuit and Settlement (Case No. 4FA-82-2208 Civil) issued by Superior Court Judge Mary Greene, Trial Courts, State of Alaska, Fourth District, Fairbanks, Alaska, December 13, 1994.

"A Survey of the First Admissions to the Alaskan Hospital for the Insane" by Doris Freeburger, BA Thesis Presented to Division of Philosophy, Psychology, and Education, Reed College, May 1941

(George Rogers Collection, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

US Representative Edith Green's testimony before the Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, about HR 6376, An Act to Provide for the Hospitalization and Care of the Mentally Ill of Alaska, February 20, 21 and March 5, 1956

Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Atlas Excerpts pp. i-ii, 13, 22 Prepared and published by the plaintiffs in the Mental Health Trust Lands Litigation, Weiss v. State, December 1990.

Map of the Reconstitution of the Original Mental Health Trust Lands-Interior Region (September 1994)

Courtesy of Alaska Department of Natural Resources)

Memorandum Decision and Order Granting Final Approval to the HB201 Settlement, December 1994. Superior Court Decision that details how settlement terms are to be carried out by the State. It also provides good background of entire mental health trust lands issue and legal battle.

Map of the Reconstitution of the Original Mental Health Trust Lands-Interior Region (September 1994)

Courtesy of Alaska Department of Natural Resources)

“Population Trends of Alaska Natives and the Need for Planning.” By Joseph D. Bloom, M.D. in American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 128, No. 8, February 1972, pp 112-116.

"Hope for Alaska's Mentally Ill" by Marjorie Shearon, Ph.D. An article about legislative history of the 1956 Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act. Reprinted in Congressional Record, 89th Congress, 2nd Sess., Vol. 112, Part 14, p 18019-18027.

US Attorney Ted Stevens' testimony about mental health issues before the Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, US House of Representatives, Fairbanks, Alaska, September 14, 15 and 16, 1955

“The Alaska Mental Health Lands.” By Jerry Schrader, M.D. in American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 144, No. 1, January 1987, pp 107-109.

"The Insane of Alaska. January Fifteenth 1920. For Sixteen Years Administered Under the Department of the Interior at Morningside Hospital Portland, Oregon"

“Mental Health Services: Alaska’s Unmet Need.” By Alaska Mental Health Association, Fred Selkregg (President) and Natalie Gottstein (Executive Director), no date.