“The total subsistence take by Alaska Native tribes amounts to only 2 percent of all fish and game while commercial and urban interests get the remaining 98 percent”
“This has been a contentious issue between Alaska Native people and the state of Alaska since the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of December 1971. That act created 13 regional corporations and more than 200 village corporations, and awarded the for-profit entities title to 10-percent of the state’s lands, and compensated Alaska Native people $3 an acre for other lands taken, nearly a billion dollars total.
At the same time, Congress extinguished all aboriginal hunting and fishing rights as part of the settlement and in return, both the Secretary of Interior and the state promised they would take any action necessary to protect the subsistence needs of the Alaska Natives.”
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