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The Koniag region comprises Kodiak Island and the Kodiak Archipelago and a small portion of the southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula.Koniag's original land entitlement under ANCSA was 895 acres (3.6 km 2), plus the subsurface estate of lands allocated to village corporations in the Koniag region.
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
After ASRC was created in 1971, it received a share of the $963 million provided by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, plus a number of acres of land in proportion to the size of villages in its region. It was able to define and obtain title to parcels of land without restriction to any former title or land claim.
The Act lays out the specifics of the corporations' status. Here is an excerpt of the relevant portion: [5] 43 U.S.C. § 1606 (a) Division of Alaska into twelve geographic regions; common heritage and common interest of region; area of region commensurate with operations of Native association; boundary disputes, arbitration.
Wales (Inupiaq: Kiŋigin, IPA:) is a city [4] [5] in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States.At the 2010 census the population was 145, [4] down from 152 in 2000. It is the westernmost city on the North American mainland, although Adak, located on Adak Island, is the westernmost city in Alaska.
As of March 2007, about 9.8 million acres (15,000 sq mi; 40,000 km 2) have been conveyed, including 6.6 million acres (10,000 sq mi; 27,000 km 2) in surface and subsurface estate (fee Owned) and 3.2 million acres (5,000 sq mi; 13,000 km 2) of subsurface estate corresponding to surface estate owned by villages corporations in the Doyon region.
Southcentral Alaska (Russian: Юго-Центральная Аляска), also known as the Gulf Coast Region, [1] is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska consisting of the shorelines and uplands of the central Gulf of Alaska. More than half of the state's entire population lives in this region, concentrated in and around the city of ...
In the 1990s, when government funding for public radio was decreasing, the radio stations of Southeast Alaska banded together in an effort to save costs by merging accounting and payroll operations. They also collaboratively funded engineers for miscellaneous technology and transmitter maintenance, as opposed to each station hiring their own ...