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.

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

To make the 11.1 million acres available, the BLM’s favored action partially revokes land use protections put in place ...

Alaska, last Wednesday praised the U.S. Department of the Interior (Interior) for releasing a draft Supplemental ...

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 ...