The condtion that Congress said Alaska needed to accept before it was admitted as a state was that it was not allowed to claim lands held by native Americans. Alaska was admited and proclaimed 49th state of the United States under Eisenhower´s presidency. Prior, from 1867 to 1884 Alaska was considered to be a military district of the United States of America under the control of the federal government. Its citizens had called fot statehood since as early as the 1920s.
