This chapter looks at the fascinating and increasingly salient issue of hybrid sovereignties through the sweeping history of Inuit land claims agreements (LCAs) in Alaska and Canada, from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971 through the Labrador Inuit (Nunatsiavut) Land Claim of 2005, with several agreements in between including the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and 1978 Northeastern Quebec Agreement, the 1984 Inuvialuit Final Agreement, and the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. Each of these LCAs pioneered new manifestations of hybrid sovereignty as reflected in novel governing structures that for the most part expanded powers of Inuit claimants beyond the achievements of prior LCAs, incrementally strengthening the foundations of indigenous self-reliance and self-governance across the Arctic. Once LCAs became a fixture in the political geography of mainland Arctic North America, they quickly transformed from a rapid program of economic modernization and integration driven by time-sensitive energy development projects and marked by assimilationist ambitions of the state into a more innovative and balanced program of mutual recognition by indigenous peoples and the state, strengthening the sovereign fabric of the both the United States and Canada in their polar regions through the hybridity achieved in these vast, lightly settled, and largely undefended frontier regions. This chapter describes the foundational and transformative historical role of LCAs as a mechanism to help the state expand and consolidate its sovereign claims in a hybrid, non-militarized fashion, while at the same time offering the Inuit numerous material benefits – from cash compensation to corporate control to resource co-management to constitutional protection of their gains – in exchange, with both the state and indigenous peoples benefitting from the mutuality of this consent, and the increasing strength of collaboration amidst hybridization that resulted therefrom. In such a way, the Arctic regions of North America have been economically and politically integrated into the constitutional fabric of the Canadian and American states not through war and conquest as witnessed through the ages of imperialism and colonialism, but through hybridization and collaboration. In short, the Arctic has been absorbed into the expanding state by what Clausewitz might have described as ‘other means’ – but in this case, not through the culmination of battlefield victory by either party, but instead through the inherently collaborative spirit of hybrid sovereignty.