On the President’s first day in office, January 20, the White House released Executive Order 14153, titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” (the “Alaska EO”).

PFD payments are taxable for federal income tax purposes, as are many additional annual dividends paid (as part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act) to Native Americans. Depending on the ...

Under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, signed into law in 1971, Alaska Natives received 44 million acres of land and $962 million. Hensley and the AFN, however, pushed for more.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 put most Alaska Native land here under the control of Native corporations — which are not sovereign governments — instead of tribes, which are.

Since the 1960s and 1970s, aboriginal autonomy has rebounded in Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 officially ended native land ownership claims while creating regional ...

She explained that the village corporation was created under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act but then was subject to litigation for 33 years. Well into the 1990s, ”Leisnoi was in ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and vice chair U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi) led the meeting titled “Native American Education – Examining ...

Sealaska has scheduled a meeting for its shareholders from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at the Nolan Center.

There’s also a potential federal pathway for guaranteeing Indigenous fishing access, which was not compensated for through the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that distributed roughly 45 ...

On the President’s first day in office, January 20, the White House released Executive Order 14153, titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” (the “Alaska EO”).