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Are Alaska Native corporations — special corporations that Congress created in 1971 when it resolved Native claims in Alaska — “Indian tribe[s]” under the Indian Self-Determination and Education ...
the tiny piece of land is "Indian Country," otherwise known as an Indian reservation, under the legal jurisdiction of the tribe, rather than the state. But the state of Alaska challenged the U.S.
As the subtitle to his book says, it's "How Indian Tribes ... side of what reservation gambling has become. Perhaps, in his later years, he is warning what is coming to Alaska now that the ...
On his visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota today, President Obama is using his first stop at a Native American reservation ... and Alaska Natives were living in poverty in 2012.
Attorneys presented oral arguments in a long-running dispute over fishing rights on Alaska’s only Native reservation on Thursday. Metlakatla Indian Community ... and Prince of Wales Island.
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 extinguished most “Indian country” in Alaska ... “ANCSA eliminated the reservation system in Alaska and left no authority for the federal ...
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation ... the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. ISDA states: “Indian tribe” means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other ...
At issue in Wednesday’s case was the Biden Interior Department’s decision to accept a trust application from the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, which sought ...
Of 27 counties with a majority American Indian or Alaska Native population, about two-thirds had unemployment rates last year above the national level, with nine at 10 percent or higher.
In the heart of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, where the winds whisper ... and celebrate the lands they call home. In this Indie Alaska feature from PBS and PBS Digital Studios earn about ...