Nation
Alaska Native peoples · alaska native · Alaska NativeAlaska Native peoples
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Region
- Alaska
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Alaska Native peoples as a party: Treaty of Cession of Alaska (US-Russia), 1867.
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Alaska Native peoples: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971): extinguishment of aboriginal title by statute. One court case turned on its rights: Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.
Land has come back: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Other names in English
Who is doing the work
Working with these nations
- United Tribes of Bristol Bay (UTBB) Nation government Long-term guardianship of lands, air and waters, Tribal self-determination Give on their site Website
- Native Conservancy (Cordova, Alaska) Native-led LandBack, OceanBack and PeopleBack programs: Native-led conservation trusts, regenerative mariculture, return of… Give on their site Website
- Native Movement (Alaska) Native-led Indigenous rights, environmental justice, food sovereignty and grassroots organizing (not a land buyer) Give on their site Website
- Spruce Root (Seacoast Trust / Sustainable Southeast Partnership) Native-led Indigenous-led conservation funding: Indigenous Guardians, community forest partnerships, food sovereignty in… Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Named in 3
Organizations that work with this nation 3
Party to 1
Governed by 1
Includes 1
Sources
- nana.com/about-us/unclassified
NANA is a for-profit Alaska Native Corporation, formed as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
Research notes
DISTINCT LEGAL CONTEXT (ANCSA corporate structure). No US-Native treaties in Alaska in the seed.
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- Distinct legal context