Alaska Native Claim Settlement Act (ANCSA) Land Conveyances by the ADF&G(Alaska Department of Fish & Game)

Welcome to the Alaska Native Arts Resource Directory... ...your complete guide to web sites about Alaskan Native visual artists, craftspeople, writers, musicians, dancers, dance groups, arts organizations and arts resources. Our goal is to provide you with a comprehensive Web directory featuring the finest Alaskan Native woodcarvers, jewelers, fiber artists, bead artists, basketry artists, weavers, mask makers, ivory carvers, painters, metalsmiths, sculptors, and other visual arts professionals. You will also find Alaskan Native writers, musicians, dancers and dance groups, Alaska Native arts organizations, and sources for Alaskan Native arts materials and regalia.

2000 Census Counts for Alaska Natives

The mission of the foundation is to perpetuate the Ahtna Heritage and enhance the socio-economic status of the Ahtna people.

To accomplish this mission the foundation shall use the traditional culture, in all its facets, as the primary means to enhance the education, the life skills, the pride and self esteem of the Ahtna people.

The past shall be used as a bridge to help the Ahtna people move from their traditional life style to a socio-economic position of self sufficiency in the current and future Alaskan society, while at the same time retaining the positive aspects of the Ahtna history and culture.

Ahtna shareholders and their descendants are eligible to apply for the "Walter Charley Memorial Scholarship Grant".

Ahtna Regional Corporation Website

The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council is a statewide, tribally-governed non-profit organization that advocates in support of tribal governments throughout the state. The Council promotes indigenous self-determination by providing technical assistance to tribal governments, facilitating inter-governmental and inter-agency communication and collaboration, offering public education regarding Alaska Native cultures and tribal governments, and advocating on behalf of tribal initiatives and self governance.

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
By Alexandra J. McClanahan
CIRI Historian

In 1971 the push for oil development, the state's desire to get the land promised to it under the Statehood Act and the Alaska Natives’ efforts to save their land paid off with what would become the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, known as ANCSA. For four long years spirited debate had focused on just how much land and cash the Alaska Natives would be granted for the settlement of their claims. The final bill that emerged promised 44 million acres and $1 billion in cash.

To help meet the unique educational needs of Alaska Natives and to support the development of supplemental educational programs to benefit Alaska Natives.

The Alaska Native Health Board (ANHB), established in 1968, is recognized as the statewide voice on Alaska Native health issues. The purpose of the Alaska Native Health Board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of Alaska Native people.

An educational and cultural institution for all Alaskans, the Alaska Native Heritage Center provides programs in both academic and informal settings, including workshops, demonstrations and guided tours of indoor exhibits and outdoor village sites. Local residents and visitors to Alaska are introduced to Native traditions and customs of both the past and present. The Welcome House is a celebration of contemporary Alaska Native cultures while the outdoor facilities and sites allow the exploration of ancient tradition and the presentation of stories from the past. The Center provides a unique opportunity to experience Alaska's many diverse Native cultures at one location.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit health organization owned and managed by Alaska Native tribal governments and their regional health organizations. The Consortium was created in 1997 to provide statewide Native health services. Through its six divisions, the Consortium works in cooperation with tribes, Native health organizations, and municipalities to achieve its goals. ANTHC divisions are Tertiary and Specialty Medical Services, Alaska Native Medical Center; Environmental Health and Engineering; Community Health Services; Information/Technology; Human Resources; and Administration.

Alaska Traditional Knowledge and Native Foods Database

Promoting the Employment and Training of Alaska Natives and their Family Members.

Online material about Alaska Native history, education , language and culture. For teachers, students and anyone interested in Alaska's first people

The Aleut Corporation Website.

Website for Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. A non-profit tribal organization of the Aleut people in Alaska providing services including cultural heritage, health, education, social, psychological, employment, vocational training, environment, natural resources and public safety services.

AIROS - providing you with authentic Native American music, news, entertainment, interviews and discussions of the current issues in Indian Country and the world. AIROS is an international distributor of Native American programming through the Public Radio Satellite System.

ANCSA & Alaska Native lands page at the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center

ANCSA – Whose Settlement Was It? An Overview of Salient Issue Gigi Berardi

Website for Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

The Arctic Studies Center invites you to explore the history of northern peoples, cultures, and environments and the issues that matter to northern residents today. Join us as we excavate arctic sites; support indigenous efforts to preserve cultural heritage; and work with communities and scholars to share the treasures preserved in museum collections and archives.

Association of Village Council Presidents Provides Human Development, Social Services, and other culturally relevant programs for the people, to promote self-determination, protection and enhancement of our culture and traditions through a working partnership with member village of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

An Alaska Native non-profit dedicated to enhancing educational and cultural preservation opportunities for Bering Straits Native Corporation shareholders, their descendants, and the people of the Bering Straits region.

Bering Straits Native Corporation Website

Bethel Native Corporation is Alaska's Sixth Largest Village Corporation located in Bethel, Alaska. Bethel is located in Southwestern Alaska, approximately 400 miles west of Anchorage. Bethel Native Corporation through it's investments and subsidiaries engages in many diverse business interests to maintain and improve profitability. We are available for Government Service contracts and many other services.

The Bristol Bay Native Association is a service agency dedicated to the betterment of the Native People of the Bristol Bay region.

Bristol Bay Native Corporation's Website

Calista Corporation's Website

Chenega Corporation is an Alaska Native Village Corporation. We provide services to our shareholders including education, training, and employment opportunities to foster individual growth and well being by maintaining consistent growth and profitability.

Chickaloon Village Traditional Council's Website

Chugach Alaska Corporation's Website

Chugachmiut is the Tribal consortium created to promote self-determination to the seven Native communities of the Chugach Region. We provide health and social services, education and training, and technical assistance to the Chugach Native people in a way which is acceptable to Native cultural values and tradition in order to enhance the well-being of our people by continuing to strengthen the tribes and increase self-determination opportunities for community operated tribal programs.

Our purpose is to represent our tribes and communities by being united, responsible, sober leaders by protecting a healthy environment which provides good health, spiritual and mental wellness, and to provide education, employment, training and to have cultural heritage education. To promote, protect and provide sovereignty, hunting, fishing and all other Indian Rights through representation of Native people and positive role models utilizing the wisdom of the elders and our traditional chiefs to lead the Native people to unity.

Doyon Limited's Website

Welcome to the Corporate website of Goldbelt, Juneau Alaska's urban Native corporation since 1974.

Welcome to my Alaska Native Crafts site. My name is Shirley David-Jimerson, Upper Tanana Athabascan of the Naltsiin clan. I am originally from the village of Tetlin, Alaska. My late mother, Helen C. David (granddaughter of Chief Thomas) was originally from Wood River.

Alaska Native Crafts
9499 Brayton Dr. # 296
Phone: 907-349-0301
Fax: 907-349-0351
Email: MJime32245@aol.com

may want to contact inregards to domain name to develope new artists network.

Initially established in 1973 as the non-profit arm of the Bering Straits Native Association, Kawerak advocated for the settlement of the Alaska Native Land Claims Act. Today, Kawerak contracts with the state and federal government to provide services to residents of the Bering Strait Region, 75% of whom are American Indian, Eskimo or Aleut descent. Kawerak's organizational goal is to empower Alaska Native people and their governing bodies to take control of their future. With programs ranging from education to housing, and natural resource management to economic development, Kawerak seeks to improve the Region's social, economic, educational, cultural and political conditions.

We are a team, dedicated to playing airsoft, and recruting new people. We are currently looking for a perminant place to play, and that is one of the reasons why I joing the KNA.

hat Is KANA?? The Kodiak Area Native Association was formed in 1966 as a 501 (C)(3) non-profit corporation providing health and social services for the Alaska Natives of the Koniag region. The Kodiak AreaNative Association (KANA) service area includes the City of Kodiak and six remote Alaska Native villages. The six remote villages include: Akhiok, Karluk, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie, Port Lions, and Larsen Bay. Historically, nonprofit corporations, such as KANA were formed throughout Alaska after the AlaskaNative Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was enacted. The ANCSA settlement is an agreement between the United States Government and the Alaska Native Tribes. The ANCSA legislation distributed land to regional and village entities to establish for-profit corporations. Each of the regional profit corporations formed a separate non-profit corporation to assist their members with health and social service needs.

Koniag Inc.'s Website

Managed Business Solutions, LLC, (MBS), a global information and technology outsourcing and consulting firm, announced that Sealaska Corporation, a Native corporation formed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, has purchased a majority equity investment in the company.

Welcome to Maniilaq.org. For over 30 years, Maniilaq Association has been providing extensive health, tribal, and social services to residents of rural Northwest Alaska. Click on any of the links to discover why Maniilaq is the region's largest employer.

Mining Journal Article on Alaska Native Corporations and Mining. Published 1997

The NANA Land Department manages all corporate-owned lands within the region.The purpose of this site is to provide the public with information on NANA lands, and to provide a forum for cooperation among land managers and user groups in the dissemination of land information.

NANA Regional Corporation's Website

"The culture, values and traditions of native people amount to more than crafts and carvings. Their respect for the wisdom of their elders, their concept of family responsibilities extending beyond the nuclear family to embrace a whole village, their respect for the environment, their willingness to share - all of these values persist within their own culture even though they have been under unremitting pressure to abandon them." Mr. Justice Thomas Berger, Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, (aka the Berger Inquiry).

An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references. ...revising use of the term "primitive" with respect to Native American Technology and Art

Eklutna Eklutna, Native Village government office was formed in1960. The tribe became federally recognized and is recorded under IRS code 83.87, section 7871, part of the Indian tax status act of 1982. Mission Statement The Native Village of Eklutna (NVE) will strengthen it's Tribal Nation by exercising it's inherent powers to protect the past, present, and future of the tribal membership.

Natives and Nature A Comparative Look at Yupiaq and Quechua Philosophies on War and Peace Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, April 2003 The Re-making of the World The indigenous peoples of the world have experienced varying degrees of disruption or loss with regard to their traditional lifestyles and worldviews. This disruption has contributed to the many psychosocial maladies that are extant in indigenous societies today. The Western worldview with its aggressive educational practices and technoscience orientation has placed indigenous cultures in “harm’s way.” These cultures, having been characterized as primitive and backwards and therefore wanting, are subjected to an endless stream of assimilative processes to bring their practitioners into mainstream society. The indigenous people are forced to live in a constructed and psychic world not of their own making or choosing. Little is left in their lives to remind them of their indigenous culture; nor is there recognition of their indigenous consciousness and its application of intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, and inventiveness in the making of their world.[1]

Northwest Arctic School Districts Special Program on ANCSA

At the annual meeting in Anchorage on June 23, 2007, Sealaska shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on three important resolutions:

• Should eligible descendants of original shareholders be issued 100 shares of life estate stock in Sealaska?

• If shareholder descendants are enrolled, should Sealaska issue 100 shares of nonvoting life estate stock to Elders (original shareholder as they reach the age of 65), in addition to shares they already own?

• If shareholder descendants are enrolled, should Leftouts (eligible Natives who missed previous enrollment periods) be issued 100 shares of life estate stock in Sealaska?

The Sealaska board of directors, management and staff is committed to providing balanced information about these important resolutions to help shareholders make informed decisions. Their website will allow you to access up-to-date information on each resolution. We encourage you to visit often from now until the vote in June 2007, as the site will continue to be updated with new material and answers to your questions.

Racism’s Frontier: The Untold Story of Discrimination and Division in Alaska Chapter 1 An Overview of Alaska’s Problems and Promises "Having been born a Native, raised in my village and having lived my life in Alaska, I can say with conviction that there has not been a worse moment in Alaska’s recent history for Alaska’s Native peoples than now. In spite of all the gains Natives have made for themselves in virtually every area of public and private endeavor, the result is a society in Alaska that only dimly comprehends their existence and seems more and more unwilling to accept, let alone celebrate, the Native place in Alaska."--Byron I. Mallot

alaskool.org ANCSA Resource page

Sealaska Corporation¹s Website

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is a regional Native nonprofit organization founded for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people of Southeast Alaska. SHI was established in 1981 by Sealaska Corp., a for-profit company formed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). SHI, formerly Sealaska Heritage Foundation, administers Sealaska Corp.'s cultural and educational programs.

The Seldovia Native Association was incorporated in 1972 as a village corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act by Congress.

Sitnasuak Native Corporation (SNC) was established under the provisions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act . Signed by President Nixon on December 18, 1971, the Act settled land ownership disputes between the U.S. and State governments and the aboriginal owners. On February 9, 1973, SNC was incorporated under Alaska State statutes as a land based profit corporation.

With the land entitlement of 161,280 acres, we have received patent to 43,486 acres and interim conveyance to 109,417 acres, which is approximately 95% of the total. The corporation has also received 81,280 acres of Sec.12(b). The subsurface resources are owned by Bering Straits Regional Corporation.

SNC, the largest of the 16 village corporations in the Bering Straits region had an initial enrollment of 2,054 shareholders in 1971. Currently, Sitnasuak shareholders have increased to 2,783 and growing through inheritance and gifting. Our corporate headquarters are located in Nome, Alaska.

Tanana Chiefs Conference provides a unified voice advancing tribal governments, economic and social development, promoting physical and mental wellness, educational opportunities and protecting language, traditional and cultural values.

The 13th Regional Corporation's Website

The Aleut Foundation : Enhancing the life and Culture of the Aleut people.

The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit organization which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional Native values. Through its educational programs, AISES provides opportunities for American Indians and Alaska Natives to pursue studies in science, engineering, and technology arenas. The trained professionals then become technologically informed leaders within the Indian community. AISES' ultimate goal is to be a catalyst for the advancement of American Indians and Native Alaskans as they seek to become self-reliant and self-determined members of society.

The Arctic Education Foundation (AEF) mission is to promote, develop, implement, sponsor and maintain programs of assistance for worthy and needy Inupiat Natives of the Arctic Slope Region of Alaska, or descendants of such persons, so as to aid them in the furtherance of their education or vocational training.

The CIRI Foundation's mission is to promote individual self-development and economic self-sufficiency through education among Alaska Natives who are original enrollees of CIRI and their lineal descendants. The CIRI Foundation also strives to enhance the heritage of Alaska Natives through programs that foster appreciation and understanding of Alaska Native cultures.

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is located in one of the most diverse concentrations of Native peoples in North America, in the heart of the nation’s oldest multi-cultural communities and in one of the largest art markets in the country. The City of Santa Fe’s population is 63,203. The elevation is approximately 6,990. Situated on 140 acres of land 12 miles southwest of downtown Santa Fe, the IAIA campus environment supports natural plant and wildlife. In each direction, one has breathtaking views of the landscape. To the west are the Jemez Mountains; to the northeast are the Sangre de Christos Mountains, and to the south are the Ortiz Mountains with the Sandia Mountain Range looming behind them.

The Kuskokwim Educational Foundation's mission is to contribute to the future of our region by providing effective educational assistance in order that students obtain the tools, knowledge and skills to become successful and contributing members of their communities. Educational assistance is provided for Native people and their descendants from the Kuskokwim Corporation (TKC) region. A four-member board of directors oversees the operation of the Foundation and reviews scholarship applications. Board members are Samantha John-chairman, Angela Morgan-Vice Chairman, Maver Carey-Secretary / Treasurer and Lucy Brown-member.

The SNA Foundation Consistent with the philosophy of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the non-profit SNA Foundation endeavors to serve the economic and social needs of Alaska Natives enrolled in Seldovia Native Association by offering educational opportunties to eligible persons. It provides shareholders and their decendants with scholarships, grants, student aid, stipends and other means of support in connection with educational training at colleges, universities, vocational schools or other educational institutions, as well as educational training through apprenticeships, internships or other educational programs, which may be approved by the Board of Directors.

Tikigaq Corporation was established in 1971 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), taking away tribal rights and instead, creating a corporation, along with providing money and land, to ensure the cultural and financial well being of the people. We are an Alaska Native Village Corporation (ANC) for Point Hope, Alaska. Over 850 of our 1,000 Alaska Native shareholders still reside in the village, continuing the traditional life of old.

A site covering a varitey of topics on Alaska Natives and American Indians including : Anthems, Flags | Maps, Nations | Art | Celebrities | Culture, Dance, Storytelling | Clothing, Dress, Fashion | Genealogy | History | Languages, Writers | Media | Music, Radio | Native Recipes | Pictures | Travel, Tourism | Alaska Natives Online | Alaska Native and American Indian Issues

We have embarked on a new direction with the Tribal Connections website. Tribalconnections.org continues to be a valuable database for health related resources for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and that will not change. The website is an important outreach tool to the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and for promoting National Library of Medicine (NLM) online resources like MedlinePlus. What we have begun in our new phase is to provide editorial content in the form of news articles and features about health and wellness issues.

The Tribal Connections staff is attempting to do two things with this approach. First, we want to provide reader-friendly information about critical issues or topics in the news related to Native American health. We hope to make available information that will be interesting to both health professionals and to consumer health information seekers.

Tyonek Native Corporation is an Alaskan Native Village Corporation formed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971.

The US Department of Education Website providing resouces to sudents , parents, administrators and more.

Welcome to the Wellbriety Website The purpose of this website is to communicate with those who wish to help Alaska Natives and American Indians follow the path of Handsome Lake, the first Indian to recover from Alcoholism. This website started only a few weeks ago. Be sure to check out the "weblinks" page. We aim to be a source of information about other sites with valuable information.

The ANCSA.net WIKI building a resouce about ANCSA, Alaska and Alaska Native Culture.