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Originally Posted by jason_els  They're technically citizens of the United States with all the rights of citizens including running for president, voting, and carrying US passports though have only had this status since 1924.
I don't know if they're citizens of Canada as well when the territories
overlap. |
There is no dual citizenship. The area of the Arctic Ocean border between Alaska and Canada is uninhabited, in any case. There is just one village, Kaktovik, between Prudhoe and the border.
No-one in Alaska could vote in a federal election until 1959, when it became a state. Alaska natives were generally prevented from voting at all before the fifties.
They do have some rights other citizen don't have, such as subsistence hunting of marine mammals, and free medical care.