ANCSA
What does ANCSA stand for?
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Since when have tribes been self-governing?
Time immemorial.
What does ANILCA stand for?
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Fill in the blank:
The ANCSA settlement to Native Corporations was ____% of total Alaska lands.
~12% (45 million acres)
Who decides tribal membership requirements?
Individual tribes decide on their own membership requirements
–Many tribes require you are a lineal descendant of their original membership roll.
What does ANILCA Title VIII do?
Mandates through federal law a “rural preference” for subsistence hunting and fishing to rural residents of Alaska.
True or False:
ANCSA extinguished “aboriginal” hunting and fishing rights.
True
How many tribal governments are in the Bristol Bay region?
31 individual tribal governments.
True or False:
The United Nations recognizes indigenous people’s right to live their traditional way of life including their hunting and fishing rights.
True.
It’s stated in the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples!
What is the name of our regional Native corporation?
Bristol Bay Native Corporation
What does inherent sovereignty mean?
Tribal authority existed prior to the formation of the United States Government and does not come from US Government but from the people themselves.
In ANILCA what was the original term before it as changed to “rural preference”?
“Native Preference”- It was changed due to a compromise with the State of Alaska.
True or False?
All tribal members in Bristol Bay are BBNC shareholders.
False.
BBNC only represents the original shareholders (who were listed in 1972) and the people who have been gifted or inherited shares since then. (About ½ of BBNC shareholders live in the Bristol Bay region.)
What is Bristol Bay Native Association?
A consortium of 31 Bristol Bay tribal governments, organized to provide tribal services and a regional tribal voice.
True or False:
Alaska Native people have to navigate contradictory State and Federal land management practices when it comes to hunting and fishing.
As the state refuses to recognize a “rural preference” (in ANILCA) but the Federal government abides by ANILCA AKN people are left to navigate a complex system of land management.