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Claims Settlement Act
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Summary
of contents
- Laws
- Regulations
- Administrative actions and orders
- Proposed legislative and administrative
amendments and actions
- Cases
- Articles
- Government publications
- Agreements
- Concordance and definitions
- Miscellaneous materials
- Other information
- Native Corporations Links
- Other links of interest
- Notification of changes
- Tips for use
- Other links to Landye Bennett Blumstein
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Laws
- Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act (ANCSA)
- Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act -- U.S. Code (sections 1601-1629f)
- Implementation of
Alaska Native Claims Settlement and Alaska Statehood -- U.S. Code
(sections 1631- 1642)
2006
law -
- Technical Amendment to Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act (changed voting standard to authorize issuing
shares to missed enrollees, eligible elders, and eligible persons born
after December 18, 1971) (March 13, 2006)
- Senate Report regarding
Technical Amendment to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
2004
law -
2003
law -
2001
law -
- Economic Growth and Tax Relief
Reconciliation Act of 2001 (settlement trust taxation)
- Economic Growth and Tax Relief
Reconciliation Act of 2001 (settlement trust taxation)
- Conference Report on
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (excerpts
relating to settlement trust taxation)
2000
law -
- Indian Tribal Justice Technical
and Legal Assistance Act of 2000 (Alaska Native veterans and levies on
settlement trust interests)
1998
amendments and law -
- ANCSA Land Bank Protection Act
of 1998 (codified provisions have been incorporated into ANCSA)
- Veterans Affairs and HUD
Appropriations Act (open season for certain Alaska Native veterans for
allotments)
Other
federal laws -
- 1976 Amendments to ANCSA
Excerpts -- uncodified sections only
- 1987 Amendments to ANCSA
Excerpts -- uncodified sections only
- Alaska Statehood Act
- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
(ANILCA) -- Selected sections only
Alaska
state laws -
- Alaska statutes relating to
corporate matters and Native corporations
- Alaska statutes relating to
inheritance and transfer of Native corporation stock
- Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA
taxation
- Alaska statutes relating to ANCSA
securities
- Alaska statutes relating to
ANCSA land
- Alaska statutes relating to
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation loans
- Miscellaneous Alaska statutes
relating to ANCSA
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Regulations
- 43 CFR part 4 --
Administrative hearings and appeals
- 43 CFR part 2650 -- BLM ANCSA
regulations
- Code
of Federal Regulations
- 25 CFR part 69 -- BIA ANCSA
enrollment regulations (repealed)
- 03 AAC 08.305 - .365 -- Alaska
regulations relating to ANCSA corporations and solicitation of proxies
- 03 AAC 08.360 –
Alaska regulation relating to investigations of violations of Alaska ANCSA
regulations (effective 11/5/11)
- 19 AAC 90 -- Alaska regulations regarding tender of
14(c) lands to state in trust for future municipality
Administrative
actions and orders
Proposed
legislative and administrative amendments and actions
(Some of the legislative bills are quite lengthy, and will take a few moments to load.)
- Draft Department of Interior
regulations regarding Alaska Native allotments for Vietnam veterans
- S. 426 (April 19, 1999) To
provide for a land exchange with Huna Totem Corporation
- H.R. 3090 (November 9, 1999)
To restore certain lands to the Elim Native Corporation
- H.R. 2803 (August 5, 1999), H.R. 3013 (October 5, 1999) and S. 1702 (October 6, 1999) To allow shareholder
common stock to be transferred to adopted Alaska Native children and their
descendants, clarify relation to Civil Rights Act of 1964, definition of settlement
trust, Alaska Native veterans allotments, applicability of national
wildlife refuge restrictions, authorization of partial section selections,
restoration of Elim Native Corporation lands, and clarification of
liability for contamination
- S. 430 (April 19, 1999) To
provide for a land exchange with Kake Tribal Corporation
- S. 1797 (October 26, 1999) To
provide for a land conveyance to the City of Craig, Alaska
- H.R. 2359 (June 24, 1999), S. 933 (April 30, 1999), H.R.
1940 (May 25, 1999) and H.R. 2488 (excerpt)
(July 22, 1999) To amend the Internal Revenue Code to clarify the tax
treatment of Settlement Trusts
- S. 967 (October 29, 1997) To
amend ANCSA and ANILCA to benfit Alaska Natives and rural residents, and
for other purposes
- H.R. 2000 (September 23, 1998)
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to make certain
clarifications to the land bank protection provisions, and for other
purposes. (As passed by the House)
- H.R. 2812 (November 4, 1997)
To provide for the recognition of certain Native communiitites under
ANCSA, and for other purposes
- S. 1488 (November 8, 1997) To
ratify an agreement between the Aleut Corporation and the United States to
exchange land rights received under ANCSA for certain land interests on
Adak Island, and for other purposes
- S. 1158 (June 25, 1998) and H.R. 3088 (November 13, 1997) To amend ANCSA
regarding the Huna Totem Corporation public interest land exchange, and
for other purposes To amend ANCSA regarding the Huna Totem Corporation
public interest land exchange, and for other purposes
- S. 1159 (June 25, 1998) To
amend ANCSA regarding the Kake Tribal Corporation public interest land
exchange
- S. 2088 (May 18, 1998) and H.R. 3087 (November 13, 1997) To require the
Secretary of Agriculture to grant an easement to Chugach Alaska
Corporation
- H.R. 2756 (October 28, 1997)
To authorize an exchange of property between Kake Tribal Corporation,
Sealaska Corporation and the United States
- S. 2065 (May 12, 1998) and H.R. 4192 (June 25, 1998) To amend the Internal
Revenue Code to clarify the tax treatment of Settlement Trusts established
pursuant to ANCSA
Cases
- Holmes vs. Wolf, 243 P.3d 584 (Alaska
2010) – Village corporation failure to provide annual reports and
hold annual meetings; board of directors fiduciary duties.
- Henrichs et al. vs.
Chugach Alaska Corporation, Supreme Court No. S-12878, Op. No.
6593 (August 26, 2011) -- Corporation-shareholder matters: inspection of
records, elections, proxy statements and other matters
- Nelson vs. Arviq, Inc.,
3:09-cv-00030-TMB (U.S. District Court of the District of Alaska 2011) --
Federal District Court does not have jurisdiction to decide merits of 14(c)
application before the Village corporation has made a decision on the
14(c) application, but the applicant may be able to obtain mandamus to
compel the Village corporation to make a decision
- Conitz vs. Teck Cominco
Alaska, Inc. and NANA Regional Corporation, 4:06-cv-0015-RRB
(U.S. District Court of the District of Alaska 2008) (affirmed by Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals August 10, 2009) -- Shareholder preference for
NANA shareholders does not violate state or federal anti-discrimination
law
- Polly Creek Estate
Trust et al. vs. Knikatnu, Inc. et al., 3:09-cv-00069-TMB,
document 47 (U.S. District Court of the District of Alaska 2010) --
14(c)(1) site does not include airstrip to access 14(c)(1) site; airstrips
are to be conveyed to governmental body under 14(c)(4)
- Koniag, Inc. vs. Koncor Forest
Resource Management Company et al., 3 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 1994) --
Reciprocal sand and gravel rights of village and regional corporations
- Leisnoi, Inc. vs. Stratman,
154 F.3d 1062 (9th Cir. 1998) -- Lands covered by ANCSA § 14(f)
village consent requirement for subsurface development
- Hanson vs. Kake Tribal
Corporation, 939 P.2d 1320 (Alaska 1997) -- Village corporation
may not discriminate between shareholders when distributing corporate
assets
- City of Seldovia, Alaska vs.
Seldovia Native Association, Inc., U.S. District Court for the
District of Alaska, Case no. A89-252 Civil (1993) -- Procedure for Village
corporation and municipality to resolve disputes regarding reconveyances
under section 14(c) and scope of municipality's
entitlement
- Ogle vs. Salamatof Native
Association, Inc., U.S. District Court for the District of
Alaska, 906 F. Supp. 1321 (1995) -- Application of due process to village
corporation processing of claims for reconveyances under section 14(c)
- Stratman vs. Leisnoi, Inc.,
October 13, 1999 -- U.S. Department of Interior Office of Hearings and
Appeals, Recommended Decision Eligiblity of Leisnoi as a village
corporation under section 11(b)(3)
- Stratman vs.
Leisnoi, Inc., September 26, 2007 -- U.S. District Court decision
dismissing challenge to eligibility of Leisnoi as a village corporation
under section 11(b)(3) due to Congressional
action recognizing the village.
- Eklutna, Inc. vs.
Municipality of Anchorage, Superior Court for the State of Alaska
(1997) -- Large downtown lot is "developed" (and therefore
taxable) whether or not it is a "remainder parcel," but
subdivision does not automatically cause lot to be "developed"
under 43 U.S.C. 1620(d) or 43
U.S.C. 1636(d).
- Koniag, Inc. vs.
Pagano et al., Superior Court for the State of Alaska (1999) --
False and misleading non-board proxy solicitation under state proxy
regulations.
- Notti v. Cook Inlet Region,
Inc., United States District Court for the District of Alaska
(2001) -- Preferential elders dividend authorized by ANCSA § 7(r).
- Sierra v. Goldbelt, Inc.,
25 P.3d 697 (Alaska 2001) -- Urban corporation may issue a benefit, in the
form of elders shares, to original shareholders whether or not they are
current shareholders.
- Jimerson v. Tetlin Native
Corporaton, 144 P.3d 470 (Alaska 2006) -- Village corporation may
not redeem shares as part of litigation settlement with shareholders.
Articles
- ANCSA
Section 7(i) Settlement Agreement: Impediments to Mineral Development,
by Aaron M. Schutt, Sr. (December 12, 2007, presentation to Alaska Native
Law Section)
- The
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: the First Twenty Years;
Paper 2, 38th Annual Rocky Mountain Law Institute, 1992 , by James D.
Linxwiler
- The
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act at 35: Delivering on the Promise;
Paper 12, 53rd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, 2007, by James
D. Linxwiler
- Miscellaneous
articles
- Miscellaneous
articles, Alaska Native Knowledge Network
- Alaska
Natives and the Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971, by Norman
Chance
- Leaders
need to Acknowledge Complexities Created by ANCSA, by Gary A. Moore
- Corporate
Strategies and Village Values; Arctic Alaska and the Aftermath of the
Native Land Claims Settlement of 1971, by Arctic Circle Virtual
Classroom
- Why the
Natives of Alaska Have a Land Claim, by Willie Hensley
- Northwest
Arctic Borough School District Curriculum on "The Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act"
- One Day in the
Life of a Nastive Corporate Leader, by Byron Mallot
- The Annotated
ANCSA,
by Paul Ongtooguk
- Regional
Corporation Lands (NPRA), by the Bureau of Land Management
- Village
Corporation Lands (NPRA), by the Bureau of Land Management
- Letters
to Howard, by Fred Bigjim and James Ito-Adler
- Glacier
Bay Ecosystem GIS - ANILCA and ANCSA
- Understanding
and Making the New Section 646 Election for Alaska Native Settlement
Trusts, by Bruce N. Edwards, December 2001 Alaska Law Review
Government
publications
- Legislative
Auditor's report regarding the Alaska Division of Banking, Securities and
Corporations and ANCSA corporation proxy solicitation issues (1999)
- Government Accountability Offfice
(GAO) report 06-399: Contract Managment; Increased Use of Alaska Native
Corporations' Special 8(a) Provisions Calls for Tailored Oversight (April
2006)
- Congressional Research Service:
The Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act: Background and Summary (January
14, 2005)
- Information
for Shareholders of ANCSA Corporations, by State of Alaska Division of
Banking and Securities
Agreements
Concordance
and definitions
- Concordance -- An index, with
hypertext references, of all words used in ANCSA and the 1976 and 1987
uncodified amendments to ANCSA.
- Definitions -- Words defined in
ANCSA, regulations and cases.
Miscellaneous
materials
Other
information
Native
Corporations Links
Regional
Corporations
- Ahtna Incorporated
- Aleut Corporation
- Arctic Slope Regional
Corporation
- Bering Straits
Native Corporation
- Bristol Bay Native
Corporation
- Calista
Corporation
- Chugach Alaska
Corporation
- Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
- Doyon, Limited
- Koniag, Incorporated
- NANA (NANA
Regional Corporation, Inc.)
- Sealaska Corporation
- The 13th
Regional Corporation
Village and Urban
Corporations
- Afognak Native
Corporation.
- Bethel
Native Corporation
- Deloycheet, Inc.
- Goldbelt,
Inc.
- Haida Corporation
- Huna Totem
Corporation
- Kavilco Incorporated
- Klukwan, Inc.
- The Kuskokwim
Corporation
- Natives of
Kodiak, Inc.
- Ounalashka
Corporation
- Ouzinkie
Native Corporation
- Shee Atika,
Incorporated
- Ukpeagvik
Iñupiat Corporation
Settlement Trusts
and Foundations
Other
links of interest
- UAA Alaska Native Studies
"ANCSA Revisited" seminar series
- Alaska
Native Knowledge Network
- University of
Alaska Justice Center Web Site - Alaska Natives and First Nations
- Map of Alaska
Native Regional Corporations
- Native
American Indian Resources
- Alaska Native
Studies Curriculum and Teacher Development Project ("Alaskool")
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of changes
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