How Do I Sign Alaska Claim

How do i document type sign claim alaska

so this is it the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act it's got to be really complicated though we're talking about corporations and money remember it's all about the land Alaska's Native connection to the land is a spiritual one that's older and runs deeper than the law Congress passed check this out it sought to do justice justice is rarely ever a perfect thing it is so often the matter of compromise but in this instance it's sought to do justice and it's sought to recognize that the Native people took their grievances and their desires to the Congress of the United States and through a very sophisticated persistent effort they brought about the passage of a Claims Settlement Act one of the largest and most complex acts ever enacted by the Congress did you know that the relations with the natives is one of the first and oldest responsibilities of the United States government it's actually in the Constitution article 1 section 8 the Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes Alaska became a state in 1959 when the state started selecting lands the native land claims movement kicked into high gear it took many years of hard work and sacrifice the law was passed in 1971 mm-hmm well all this added veterans involved federal lands in need of tribes the law dealing with land claims was passed in Congress not in this state ready now Congress finds and declares that there is an immediate need for a fair and just settlement of all claims by natives and native groups of Alaska based on Aboriginal land claims Aixa section 1a oh right good job Connor so the basics not so complicated really the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal land rights and in their place awarded 44 million acres of land to the Alaska Natives it also provided for almost a billion dollars in compensation for giving up their claims Congress also created regional and village corporations to receive the monies in fed administered their lands Congress wanted to avoid its previous Indian policies our reservations which rarely worked and try something new an experiment and self-determination they called it that's big self-determination means people control in their own lives and not depending on others to run their lives for them so I was like counting there are four basic parts to exit the people the land the money and the corporations right in a for you Connor let's start with people okay who has a remote uh-huh I got this they were nearly 80,000 last Natives alive on December 18 1971 but could participate in Neethu most live in Alaska but some lived in the lower 48 even other parts of the world Alaska native is not only what we call ourselves as a group but it's official legal definition of indigenous people of Alaska just like there are Native Hawaiians and Indians of the lower 48 and your Alaska native right I'm at the Baskin and Alaska native and you are send thanks for asking I'm Ubik and you are send I said that I'm you big you P you go cool okay so let's move on next land 44 million acres were conveyed under exa it sounds like a huge amount of land but when you remember that it was land granted to the people that a valid claim to the entire state the settlement seems relatively small in fact there's only ten percent of the state it's all like perspective here is forty four it doughnuts each one thanks each one represents a million acres looks like a lot but wouldn't you realize that that stack is only about ten percent of the total Wow four hundred forty four doughnuts geez I'm hungry anyway that's about four hundred twenty four million acres Alaska's pretty big glad you noticed oh the forty four million acres sixteen million acres which the regional corporations and that included both the surface and the subsurface when we talk about owning land we're not just talking about the surface but also what's beneath what they call the subsurface the state when you think about where he all comes from then you can see why some lands are more desirable than others another twenty two million acres or two village corporations this plan was generally located around the village itself it was made up of prime subsistence areas subsistence means how to get fishing and stuff and gathering food like blueberries we like to call it living off the land and sea remember that after the exile and selections Alaska Natives can no longer seek land claims that's what extinguished claims means that's it we knew ultimately that the pressure was always going to be on for a financial type settlement and so we stressed the land more than the money part which brings us to the money the dough the moolaade the clams in compensation for the millions of acres Alaskan Natives no longer can claim except a doubt about 962 million dollars over a period of about 11 years because it took so long to pay out the money the inflation made it worth less that means that by the time they actually got the money it wasn't worth 962 million dollars not even close so to demonstrate let's pretend this 1971 the year into his past if I had a dollar how many candy bars could I buy one two three four five but I didn't get this dollar till 1982 so now it's 1982 I finally have it how many candy bars can I buy now - ouch the money was paid out between the regional corporations village corporations and shareholders according to a complex formula they held that the corporation started but was not really enough to keep them running which leads us to the fourth basic provision of Aixa the creation of corporations am i right in saying that this is where they really did things differently no one quickly dude native leaders in the last you could see that the reservation system of the lower 48 wouldn't work Anka created 13 regional corporations including 12 in Alaska and one that was created later to represent Alaska Natives living outside the state Alaskan Natives who were enrolled or made shareholders when they received a hundred shares of stock another provision of bangsa made it really different in more Native section 7 I requires that regional corporations share 70% of the resource revenues among the corporations it took the corporations about 10 years to hammer out an agreement that spelt out exactly how this would be undertaken they had to find a way to make sure that the resource rich corporations shared with those who were resource poor all that legal battling nearly broke the Barnes wholly native groups together my dad told me that only after the native leadership took control was it resolved harmoniously that's the best thing about self-determination wait everything's going dark we're just fading to black Jill I have a sneaking suspicion that they wanted to talk about empowerment and self-determination now you know what I think you're right hey hey hey can I try that of course yeah oh it's all in the wrist the corporation's were created we got the money we got the land we began to get into business we began to learn began to make mistakes we began to do a lot of things and we began to realize the limitations of these institutions we found relatively quickly in the implementation of AXA that even a billion dollars in 44 million acres of land don't go all that far when they're divided amongst over 200 corporations and all of a sudden we were all struggling with relatively modest pieces of anxa with some really really difficult times ahead so I don't want to scare you guys but like they didn't have cell phones either just had only one phone and that was at the school maybe even have their own computers personal computers were not yet invented you know that is scary no texting mom and dad for help native leaders have never forgotten that ank's is about protecting the land you know let's have looked at Ang's a-- as a living document open for changes that protect the land and corporations that own the land originally the corporate stock ownership of the land after only 20 years was become available for anyone to buy if anyone could own the stock anyone could own the land Alaskan Natives have lived on for thousands of years you had the wisdom to change that anxious dock is now an alien of all did some would say aliens like aliens from outer space an alien of all means you can't sell it so like they changed Aixa I thought it was a law it was a legislation like I said a living document sounds creepy like an alien big this is what people do they go back to Congress fix things and make legislation work what's happening right now what does it have to do with culture could you google that I think someone already did and they found this but that effort by and large was to set these corporations up so that they would be successful and generate it's in The Naked decide how best to preserve their language and their culture and their traditions and how to pass that on to their children because that's not a really a Washington DC kind of a job that you can do through law and through regulation you think ank's it was not the place to protect native culture so maybe it didn't change our values or did it we've been challenged so much in every area of our involvement in education and health economics and government in our own institutions and this over arching effort that has been underway for almost 200 years to change us and I think finally native folks just said we realize now that we have this inner strength to be who we are it sounds like my grandma I'll tell him you said that I mean that's what Alma said a lot onion people are getting educated me I live in two worlds during the day when you're working you live in the Western world you go home you live in your own I valued lifestyle and I'm home I speak are you today the young people are it's kind of sad but they're more used to the Western culture than they are their native and they're educated and sophisticated they're learning to negotiate learn the aspects of how to do business the oncoming of television of having instantaneous gratification and those kinds of life changes that we are all experiencing is changing the values of Alaska Natives more so then anxia has no matter what you think of antha the fact is the inks of corporations today are huge success story the Native corporations are what they call an economic engine creating thousands of jobs in Alaska pouring millions of dollars into scholarships dividends and cultural programs for shareholders eleven are the 15 and 21 of the top 40 largest private companies in Alaska our Native corporations those people who participated and and nurtured these banks of corporations along really should be proud and should not feel like they have to second-guess themselves on whether it was the right thing to do that it will show itself in time to be as I said a part of the solution the future beats us all of us UNB can the next generation of leaders accomplish what their elders had in mind with inks ax and keep the land protected are we up to the challenge and making anxia work in the future what changes are in store for all Alaskans stay tuned now you could fade to black you