Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Resource Center
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- Draft Department of Interior regulations regarding Alaska
Native allotments for Vietnam veterans
- S. 426 (April 19, 1999) To provide for a land exchange
with Huna Totem Corporation
- H.R. 3090 (November 9, 1999) To restore certain
lands
to the Elim Native Corporation
- H.R. 2803 (August 5, 1999), H.R. 3013 (October 5, 1999) and S.
1702
(October 6, 1999) To allow shareholder common stock to be transferred to adopted
Alaska Native children and their descendants, clarify relation to Civil Rights Act of 1964,
definition of settlement trust, Alaska Native veterans allotments, applicability of national
wildlife refuge restrictions, authorization of partial section selections, restoration of Elim
Native Corporation lands, and clarification of liability for contamination
- S. 430 (April 19, 1999) To provide for a land exchange
with Kake Tribal Corporation
- S. 1797 (October 26, 1999) To provide for a land
conveyance to the City of Craig, Alaska
- H.R. 2359 (June 24, 1999), S.
933 (April 30, 1999), H.R. 1940 (May 25, 1999) and
H.R. 2488 (excerpt) (July 22, 1999) To amend the Internal
Revenue
Code to clarify the tax treatment of Settlement Trusts
- S. 967 (October 29, 1997) To amend ANCSA and
ANILCA
to benfit Alaska Natives and rural residents, and for other purposes
- H.R. 2000 (September 23, 1998) To amend the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act
to make certain clarifications to the land bank
protection provisions, and for other purposes. (As passed by the House)
- H.R. 2812 (November 4, 1997) To provide for the
recognition of certain Native communiitites under ANCSA, and for other purposes
- S. 1488 (November 8, 1997) To ratify an agreement
between
the Aleut Corporation and the United States to exchange land rights received under
ANCSA
for certain land interests on Adak Island, and for other purposes
- S. 1158 (June 25, 1998) and H.R.
3088 (November 13, 1997) To amend ANCSA regarding the Huna Totem
Corporation
public interest land exchange, and for other purposes To amend ANCSA regarding the
Huna
Totem Corporation public interest land exchange, and for other purposes
- S. 1159 (June 25, 1998) To amend ANCSA regarding the
Kake Tribal Corporation public interest land exchange
- S. 2088 (May 18, 1998) and H.R.
3087 (November 13, 1997) To require the Secretary of Agriculture to grant an
easement
to Chugach Alaska Corporation
- H.R. 2756 (October 28, 1997) To authorize an exchange
of property between Kake Tribal Corporation, Sealaska Corporation and the United States
- S. 2065 (May 12, 1998) and H.R.
4192 (June 25, 1998)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code to clarify the tax treatment of Settlement Trusts
established pursuant to ANCSA
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- Koniag, Inc. vs. Koncor Forest Resource Management
Company
et al., 3 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 1994) -- Reciprocal sand and gravel rights of
village
and
regional corporations
- Leisnoi, Inc. vs. Stratman, 154 F.3d 1062
(9th
Cir.
1998) -- Lands covered by ANCSA § 14(f) village consent requirement for
subsurface
development
- Hanson vs. Kake Tribal Corporation, 939
P.2d
1320 (Alaska 1997) -- Village corporation may not discriminate between shareholders
when
distributing corporate assets
- City of Seldovia, Alaska vs. Seldovia Native
Association,
Inc., U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, Case no. A89-252 Civil
(1993)
-- Procedure for Village corporation and municipality to resolve disputes regarding
reconveyances under section 14(c) and scope of
municipality's
entitlement
- Ogle vs. Salamatof Native Association, Inc., U.S. District
Court for the District of Alaska, 906 F. Supp. 1321 (1995)
-- Application of due process to village corporation processing of claims for reconveyances under section 14(c)
- Stratman vs. Leisnoi, Inc., October 13, 1999 -- U.S.
Department
of Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals, Recommended Decision Eligiblity of
Leisnoi
as a village corporation under section 11(b)(3)
- Stratman vs. Leisnoi, Inc.,
September 26, 2007 -- U.S. District Court decision dismissing challenge to eligibility of Leisnoi
as a village corporation under section 11(b)(3) due to Congressional
action
recognizing the village.
- Eklutna, Inc. vs. Municipality of
Anchorage, Superior Court for the State of Alaska (1997) -- Large downtown
lot
is "developed" (and therefore taxable) whether or not it is a "remainder parcel," but
subdivision does not automatically cause lot to be "developed" under 43 U.S.C. 1620(d) or 43 U.S.C.
1636(d).
- Koniag, Inc. vs. Pagano et al.,
Superior
Court for the State of Alaska (1999) -- False and misleading non-board proxy solicitation
under state proxy regulations.
- Notti v. Cook Inlet Region, Inc., United States
District Court for the District of Alaska (2001) -- Preferential elders dividend authorized
by
ANCSA § 7(r).
- Sierra v. Goldbelt, Inc., 25 P.3d 697 (Alaska
2001) -- Urban corporation may issue a benefit, in the form of elders shares, to original
shareholders whether or not they are current shareholders.
- Jimerson v. Tetlin Native Corporaton, 144 P.3d 470
(Alaska 2006) -- Village corporation may not redeem shares as part of litigation settlement with
shareholders.
- The Alaska Native Claims Settlement
Act: the First Twenty Years; Paper 2, 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Law Institute, 1992 ,
by James D. Linxwiler
- The Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act at 35: Delivering on the Promise; Paper 12, 53rd Annual Rocky Mountain
Mineral Law Institute, 2007, by James D. Linxwiler
- Al
aska
Natives
and the Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971, by Norman Chance
- Leaders Need to
Acknowledge Complexities Created by ANCSA, by Gary A. Moore
-
Corporate Strategies and Village Values; Arctic Alaska and the Aftermath of the
Native
Land
Claims Settlement of 1971, by Arctic Circle Virtual Classroom
- Alaska Native
Regions and Villages, by Paula Giese
- Why
the
Natives of
Alaska Have a Land Claim, by Willie Hensley
- The
Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act by the Northwest Arctic Borough School District
- Regional Corporation
Lands
(NPRA), by the Bureau of Land Management
- Village Corporation
Lands
(NPRA), by the Bureau of Land Management
- Letters to Howard,
by
Fred Bigjim and James Ito-Adler
-
Glacier Bay Ecosystem GIS - ANILCA and ANCSA
- Indian
country and tribal rights public forum transcript, by the Anchorage Daily News and
KTUU-Channel 2
- Indian
Country: Two Destinies, One Land, by the Anchorage Daily News
- FAQAlaska - Frequently
Asked Questions About Alaska - Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, by the
FAQAlaska Project
- Native American Law
cyberspace
journal
- Understanding
and
Making the New Section 646 Election for Alaska Native Settlement Trusts, by
Bruce N. Edwards, December 2001 Alaska Law Review
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- Section 7(i) Settlement Agreement
- Concordance -- An index, with
hypertext
references, of all words used in ANCSA and the 1976 and 1987 uncodified amendments
to
ANCSA.
- Definitions -- Words defined in ANCSA,
regulations and cases.
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Regional Corporations
Village and Urban Corporations
Settlement Trusts and Foundations
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