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In 1971, barely one million acres of land in Alaska were in private hands. [33] ANCSA, together with section 6 of Alaska Statehood Act, which the new act allowed to come to fruition, affected ownership to about 148.5 million acres (601,000 km 2) of land in Alaska once wholly controlled by the federal government. [33]
Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation owns 212,000 acres (858 km 2) of land in Alaska's North Slope Borough. [4] As provided under ANCSA, subsurface estate in UIC lands is owned by the Alaska Native regional corporation for the region, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
Under ANCSA, The Aleut Corporation was entitled to 66,000 acres (270 km 2) of surface lands and 1.572 million acres (6,362 km 2) of subsurface estate.Most of TAC's land selections were made on the Alaska Peninsula and in the Aleutian Islands, Shumagin Islands, and Pribilof Islands.
The U.S. purchased Alaska, a territory from Russia, in 1867 for 586,412 square miles of territory for $12 per square mile, less than two cents an acre, for a total of $7.2 million. Alaska didn’t ...
The Alaska Native Allotment Act of 1906 (34 Stat. 197) granted land ownership rights to individual Alaska Natives.The act, which predated the more comprehensive Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971, was an early attempt by the United States government to address land rights for indigenous peoples in Alaska.
The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total.