Anthony M. Kaliss Research Material, 1759-2013

Born in New York City on April 29, 1942, Tony Kaliss was raised in Bar Harbor, Maine and attended public schools there. He attended the University of Chicago, and the University of Maine, receiving a B.A. in United States History in 1969. Continuing his studies at the University of Maine, Kaliss received a M.A. in Economics in 1977. Since finishing his master's degree, Tony Kaliss continued to work on issues between Native and non-Native peoples in the United States, work he had been involved with since first working for the State of Maine's Department of Indian Affairs in 1965. That work took him to various locations, ending with a teaching appointment at the Iliasgvik Tribal College in Barrow, Alaska from 2002-2007 when he then retired. In retirement he continued with his interest in international indigenous issues, eventually completing a Doctorate in American Studies from the University of Hawaii comparing Soviet/Russian and American government policies toward Native peoples on both sides of the Bering Strait. As part of his research he spent a year in Far Northeastern Russia (Chukotka Penninsula) and time in North and Northwestern Alaska.