Under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, signed into law in 1971, Alaska Natives received 44 million acres of land and $962 million. Hensley and the AFN, however, pushed for more.

Since the 1960s and 1970s, aboriginal autonomy has rebounded in Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 officially ended native land ownership claims while creating regional ...

The real estate wing of the Aleut Corp. recently launched a brokerage firm aimed at building economic opportunity and support ...

She explained that the village corporation was created under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act but then was ...

With votes still being counted at home, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) is back to work, advancing the interests of Native people on Capitol Hill.

The Central Yukon planning area spans a 56-million-acre swath of Interior Alaska up to the North Slope, but only 13.3 million ...

Marii Swetzof, daughter of the Aleut Corp.’s first president Mike Swetzof, has been elected to fill a vacancy on the ...