Selected Dates in the Campaign for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 1961-1971

1961

State land selections threaten continued use of lands in Minto area.

1961

Inupiat Paitot meets to discuss protections of aboriginal rights.

1962

“Tundra Times” is established.

1963

Proposed Rampart Dam protested by Stevens Village and other Yukon River villages.

Alaska Task Force calls upon Congress to define Native land rights.

1966

Statewide conference leads to organization of Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN).

Interior Secretary Stewart Udall imposes a “land freeze” to protect Native use and occupancy.

1967

First bills introduced in Congress to settle Native land claims.

Native protests and claims to land reach 380 million acres.

1968

Alaska Land Claims Task Force, established by Governor Hickel, recommends 40 million-acre land settlement.

Governmental study effort (Alaska Natives and the Land) asserts Native land claims to be valid.

1969

North Slope oil lease auction produces $900 million for the State of Alaska.

1970

A land claims bill is passed by the Senate, but Natives are disappointed in its land provisions.

1971

Bills pass both houses of Congress, but differences in them require conference committee: its compromise version passes both houses.

Following acceptance by the AFN convention, President Nixon signs the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (P.L. 92-203) on December 18.

Taken from Robert Arnold, 1978,
Alaska Native Land Claims, p.97

Greetings!,

Because I believe that Alaska Natives must use all the tools available to them to make progress in this world, I am developing ANCSA.net. My goal is to empower my native brethren by harnessing the new technologies of the Internet now available to us so we can empower each other.

This will give each of us a voice that the world can hear.

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I'll be down at AFN tomorrow,(Friday) wandering around.

Was hoping to have a new upgrade for the site done in the mean time but doesn't look like thats going to happen. Having a variety of issues but have made some progress fixed most of them, but there are a couple that just keep giving me problems. I'd rather have a working site that break somethings. Perhaps during this upcoming week I'll be able to figure out some of these things that are giving me difficulties.

Just wanted every one to know that I've got some updates planned for the site but am currently in the hospital recovering from meningitis. I'll keep people posted as I Can but am doing much better.

Robert K

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.