Representative Peltola and Representative Stauber introduce House version of Landless Legislation to End 50 Years of Unfulfilled Promises
Alaska's Representative Mary Peltola. Image-APM/Twitter screengrab Washington, D.C. – Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) and Representative Pet...
Alaska's Representative Mary Peltola. Image-APM/Twitter screengrab Washington, D.C. – Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) and Representative Pete Stauber (R-Minnesota), last week, issued statements on H.R. 4748 , legislation that would allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA). The bill, entitled the Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act , would amend ANCSA to provide these five communities with the right to form an Alaska Native Urban Corporation and receive 23,040 acres, or one township, of federal land—just as ANCSA granted to other Southeast Native communities over 50 years ago.