Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
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Summary of contents

• Laws
  
• Regulations
  
• Administrative actions and orders
  
• Proposed legislative and administrative amendments and actions
  
• Cases
  
• Articles
  
• Government publications
  
• Agreements
  
• Concordance and definitions
  
• Miscellaneous materials
  
• Other information
  
• Native Corporations Links
  
• Other links of interest
  
• Notification of changes
  
• Tips for use
• Other links to Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP

Laws

• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)

• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act -- U.S. Code (sections 1601-1629f)
• Implementation of Alaska Native Claims Settlement and Alaska Statehood -- U.S. Code (sections 1631- 1642)

  2006 law -

• Technical Amendment to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (changed voting standard to authorize issuing shares to missed enrollees, eligible elders, and eligible persons born after December 18, 1971) (March 13, 2006)
• Senate Report regarding Technical Amendment to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

  2004 law -

• Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act (December 10, 2004)

  2003 law -

• Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 (excerpt)

  2001 law -

• Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (settlement trust taxation)
• Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (settlement trust taxation)
• Conference Report on Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (excerpts relating to settlement trust taxation)

  2000 law -

• Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 2000 (Alaska Native veterans and levies on settlement trust interests)

  1998 amendments and law -

• ANCSA Land Bank Protection Act of 1998 (codified provisions have been incorporated into ANCSA)
• Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations Act (open season for certain Alaska Native veterans for allotments)

  Other federal laws -

• 1976 Amendments to ANCSA Excerpts -- uncodified sections only
• 1987 Amendments to ANCSA Excerpts -- uncodified sections only

• Alaska Statehood Act

• Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) -- Selected sections only

  Alaska state laws -

• Alaska statutes relating to corporate matters and Native corporations
• Alaska statutes relating to inheritance and transfer of Native corporation stock
• Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA taxation
• Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA securities
• Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA land
• Alaska statutes relating to Alaska Housing Finance Corporation loans
• Miscellaneous Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA

Regulations

• 43 CFR part 4 -- Administrative hearings and appeals
• 43 CFR part 2650 -- BLM ANCSA regulations
• Code of Federal Regulations
• 25 CFR part 69 -- BIA ANCSA enrollment regulations (repealed)
• 03 AAC 08.305 - .365 -- Alaska regulations relating to ANCSA corporations and solicitation of proxies
• 19 AAC 90 -- Alaska regulations regarding tender of 14(c) lands to state in trust for future municipality

Administrative actions and orders

• Bureau of Land Management ANCSA 14(c) Policy Statement

Proposed legislative and administrative amendments and actions

(Some of the legislative bills are quite lengthy, and will take a few moments to load.)

• 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

  

Cases

• 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.
  

Articles

• 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

Government publications

• Legislative Auditor's report regarding the Alaska Division of Banking, Securities and Corporations and ANCSA corporation proxy solicitation issues (1999)
• Government Accountability Offfice (GAO) report 06-399: Contract Managment; Increased Use of Alaska Native Corporations' Special 8(a) Provisions Calls for Tailored Oversight (April 2006)
• Congressional Research Service: The Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act: Background and Summary (January 14, 2005)

Agreements

• Section 7(i) Settlement Agreement

Concordance and definitions

• 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.

Miscellaneous materials

Other information

• ANCSA Discussion Group

Native Corporations Links

Regional Corporations

• Ahtna Incorporated
• Aleut Corporation
• Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
• Bering Straits Native Corporation
• Bristol Bay Native Corporation
• Calista Corporation
• Chugach Alaska Corporation
• Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
• Doyon, Limited
• Koniag, Incorporated
• NANA (NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.)
• Sealaska Corporation
• The 13th Regional Corporation

Village and Urban Corporations

• Afognak Native Corporation.
• Bethel Native Corporation
• Deloycheet, Inc.
• Goldbelt, Inc.
• Haida Corporation
• Huna Totem Corporation
• Kavilco Incorporated
• Klukwan, Inc.
• The Kuskokwim Corporation
• Natives of Kodiak, Inc.
• Ounalashka Corporation
• Ouzinkie Native Corporation
• Shee Atika, Incorporated
• Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation

Settlement Trusts and Foundations

• Huna Heritage Foundation
• Kasaan Haida Heritage Foundation

Other links of interest

• UAA Alaska Native Studies "ANCSA Revisited" seminar series
• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
• University of Alaska Justice Center Web Site - Alaska Natives and First Nations
• Map of Alaska Native Regional Corporations
• Native American Indian Resources
• Alaska Native Studies Curriculum and Teacher Development Project ("Alaskool")

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