1971
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Congress enacted ANCSA after decades of Alaska Native land-rights organizing, settling aboriginal title claims while creating Native corporations that reshaped Indigenous land ownership, resource control, and political power in Alaska.
Alaska, AK
Indigenous
Land & treaties
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Congress enacted ANCSA after decades of Alaska Native land-rights organizing, settling aboriginal title claims while creating Native corporations that reshaped Indigenous land ownership, resource control, and political power in Alaska.