FRANK v. STATE

No. 3689.

604 P.2d 1068 (1979)

Carlos FRANK, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Collin Middleton, Robert H. Wagstaff, Wagstaff & Middleton, Anchorage, for appellant.

Geoffrey Haynes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


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 Minto 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...

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