Editing Hydaburg, Alaska (section)

==History==
Hydaburg was formed in 1911 by consolidation of the three Haida villages on Cordova Bay. These villages were Howkan on the west coast of Long Island, Sukkwan at the northern end of Sukkwan Island, across Sukkwan Strait from Hydaburg, and Klinkwan on Prince of Wales Island at the mouth of Hunter Bay.<ref>Le Cornu, Adrian (1996) [https://books.google.com/books?id=o-BNU7QuJkYC&dq=Le+Cornu+Adrian+Haida&pg=PA228 "Haida"]{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} in Frederick E. Hoxie, ed. ''Encyclopedia of North American Indians'' pp 227–228. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt {{ISBN|978-0-395-66921-1}}</ref><ref>van den Brink, J.H. (1974) [https://books.google.com/books?id=9PwUAAAAIAAJ&dq=Klinkwan+Hydaburg+Brill&pg=PA226 ''The Haida Indians: cultural change mainly between 1876-1970''] Brill Archive. pp 226–228.</ref>  The location was chosen because it had a reliable water supply.<ref name=Blackman/> The town was incorporated in 1927.<ref name=ALG74/><ref name=Blackman/>  The Hydaburg Cooperative Association was established in 1938 shortly after the  [[Indian Reorganization Act]] was extended to Alaska in 1936, supplanting the municipal government. It was the first IRA-recognized Village Council in Alaska.  Residents petitioned to be granted an Indian Reservation as a way of securing their rights to the surrounding land. The area had previously been designated as the Hydaburg [[Indian Reservation]] from 1912-1926 but had been returned to the [[Tongass National Forest]] at community request in 1926. The Hydaburg Indian Reservation was established under the Indian Reorganization Act in 1949 but was invalidated by a US District Court decision in 1952.<ref name=Blackman>Blackman, Margaret B. (1990) [https://books.google.com/books?id=M7KRhRt3i2cC&q=Haida Haida, Traditional Cultures.] Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution  Government Printing Office, Washington pp240-260</ref><ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol7/html_files/Images/v7p1495.jpg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610202438/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol7/html_files/Images/v7p1495.jpg |date=June 10, 2015 }} Federal Register 1955 "Notice of invalidation"</ref><ref>NOAA [http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/publications/afsc-tm/noaa-tm-afsc-160/communities/hydaburg.pdf Community Profiles for North Pacific Fisheries – Alaska/South East Alaska/Hydaburg]</ref>

Hydaburg was designated as a second-class City in the late 1960s and became a first-class city in 1973.<ref>[http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/plans/Hydaburg-GCP-2002.pdf Hydaburg Community Action Plan 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610200215/http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/plans/Hydaburg-GCP-2002.pdf |date=June 10, 2015 }} (slow download, may hang, use new tab if possible)</ref>  The Hydaburg Cooperative Association remains as the federally recognized tribe, while the Haida Corporation is the village corporation under the [[Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act]].<ref name=CRA />