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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.
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]
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.
Quinhagak (/ ˈ k w ɪ n ə h ɑː k /; [3] Central Yupik: Kuinerraq [4]) is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 776, up from 669 in 2010. [5] The Yupik name for the village is Kuinerraq, meaning "new river channel." It has been dated to at least 1000 AD. [6]
The Tanana Chiefs Conference (representing 42 Alaska Native villages from 37 tribes) opposes drilling, as do at least 90 Native American tribes. The National Congress of American Indians (representing 250 tribes), the Native American Rights Fund as well as some Canadian tribes also oppose drilling in the 1002 area.
The Village of Point Lay is headquartered in the city of Point Lay in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 200 enrolled citizens. [ 3 ]
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.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register , Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [ 1 ] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231.