Legal Opinion
Frank v. State
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided December 21, 1979No. 3689PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MATTHEWS, Justice.
In October of 1975, Delnor Charlie, a young man from Minto, died. Immediately preparations were made for a ritual that had been performed countless times in Min-to and other Central Alaska Athabascan villages. It is called the funeral potlatch, a ceremony of several days’ duration culminating in a feast, eaten after burial of the deceased, which is shared by members of the village and others who come from sometimes distant locations.
Delnor Charlie’s burial, as is traditional, was delayed until friends and relatives living elsewhere could reach Minto and until the…
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