Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

…that were established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971, which also collectively awarded them $962 million and 44 million acres (17.8 hectares) of federal land. The profits from mineral resources found on the land are shared among all the corporations. Also, each corporation has the right…

…finally were met with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.) Yet, compared with the previous Russian fur traders, the Russian-American Company maintained relatively good relations with the Unangan and the Indigenous peoples of the southeast, as well as with the Yupiit of the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim river…

…notably those resulting in the Alaskan Native Claim Settlement Act (U.S., 1971) and associated legislation and the creation of Nunavut (Canada, 1999), a province with a predominantly aboriginal government. See also Native American: Developments in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

With the enactment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, both the Inupiat and Gwich’in were given ownership of federal lands in their traditional areas; in the case of the Inupiat, this involved roughly 145 square miles (375 square km) of coastal lands within the wildlife refuge. Each…

…were the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), in which Alaska Natives received approximately 44 million acres (17.8 million hectares) of land and nearly $1 billion (U.S.) in exchange for land cessions, and the creation of Nunavut (1999), a new Canadian province predominantly administered by and for…

…were ultimately resolved through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. This act resolved indigenous claims of illegal takings in Alaska and created a series of for-profit corporations charged with managing a final settlement of some 44 million acres (17.8 million hectares) of land and $962 million; native peoples…

…gained greater rights under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), under which local councils, school boards, and tribal councils were established. St. Paul city on St. Paul contains the largest remaining Aleut settlement in Alaska.

…suits eventually led to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, in which the United States agreed to provide to Alaskan Natives some $962.5 million and 44 million acres of land, all to be administered through Indigenous-run corporations. For administrative purposes and to encourage local development, the state was…

…he helped to draft the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which enabled construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (completed 1977). Despite concerns voiced by environmentalists, in the early 1980s he brokered legislation that opened the Tongass National Forest to logging and mandated millions of dollars in federal payments to Alaska for…