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.

She said like the other village, urban and regional corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corp represents a distinct Alaska Native community ...

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 ...

The Central Yukon planning area spans a 56-million-acre swath of Interior Alaska up to the North Slope, but only 13.3 million of those acres fall under BLM jurisdiction.

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 ...