In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.It divided Alaska into 12 regions for newly formed private, for-profit native corporations to run.Alaska’s senators have been trying for years to include five other small, southeastern communities into ANCSA that were originally left out of the deal.
WASHINGTON - Alaska’s congressional delegation is once again trying to change the country’s federal Native American policy. The trio of lawmakers recently re-introduced a bill to allow so called “landless” communities to be included in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
“It is a promise that was made and for these communities, a promise that has not yet been delivered on,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski . “It’s always been an issue. And, you know, just something that it’s really just more like a matter of justice,” said Rinehart. “12 communities in southeast Alaska that were allowed to have their own village or urban corporation land have had varying degrees of success to very, very successful, to moderately successful. And we haven’t had that privilege.
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