A few hundred Alaska Natives were joined by small numbers of `` Alaska sourdoughs '' between 1900 and 1930 when hundreds of `` colonists '' were moved there by the United States Federal Government in the early 1930s . A few hundred Alaska Natives were joined by small numbers of `` Alaska sourdoughs '' between 1900 and 1930 when hundreds of `` colonists '' relocated by the Federal Government in the early 30 's colonized the eastern Matanuska Valley between Wasilla , Palmer , and the Butte .