TETLIN NATIVE CORPORATION'S

TRUTH

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1. ANCSA never granted land to the Tetlin Tribe. ANCSA granted a Congressional land patent of 743,147.34 acres to Tetlin Native Corporation

2. The KINROSS mining partners Mineral Lease’s claim of 780,000 acres wrongfully includes all 100,000 acres of TNCorp’s land.

3. Tetlin Village Council has never owned 675,000 acres. Tetlin Village Council claims ownership of 643,147 acres leaving Tetlin Native Corporation 100,000 acres. No land held by the Council or the Native Village of Tetlin tribe is “pursuant to ANCSA”.

4. Tetlin Village Council never was and never can be an ANCSA corporation. TNCorp is the one and only ANCSA village corporation for the Native Village of Tetlin.

5. Tetlin Native Corporation incorporated as an ANCSA village corporation in 1973 to receive land and/or cash grants from Congress under ANCSA. The village corporation opted not to receive cash but rather subsurface (minerals, oil, etc.) rights. These rights are exclusive to ANCSA land, not tribal.

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• UAF Tribal Governance

“The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act did not grant land to the tribes in Alaska…” https://www.uaf.edu/tribal/academics/112/unit-3/alaskanativeclaimssettlementactancsa1971.php

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• Alaska Native Lands and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA): Overview and Selected Issues for Congress (December 22, 2021)

ANCSA sought to create a land entitlement system different from the reservation system for the tribes in the lower 48 states. For instance, ANCSA created village and regional corporations, sometimes generally referred to as Alaska Native corporations (ANCs), not only to receive land under the settlement but also to aid in the disbursement of the settlement payment and boost the Alaskan economy. Unlike tribal governments, ANCs are business entities organized under the laws of Alaska. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46997/3

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• ANCSA REGIONAL ASSOCIATION

About the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Through ANCSA, the federal government transferred 44 million acres – land to be held in corporate ownership by Alaska Native shareholders – to Alaska Native regional and village corporations. https://ancsaregional.com/about-ancsa/#land-selection-process

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• US DEPT. of the INTERIOR BUREAU of LAND MANAGEMENT

“Part of ANCSA provides for each specific regional or village corporation to select federal lands within their legally defined regions to be conveyed to them.” https://www.blm.gov/programs/lands-and-realty/regional-information/alaska/land_transfer/ancsa

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• STATE OF ALASKA DEPT OF LAW 2019
  "Congress provided no land directly to tribes through ANCSA..." Dept. of the Interior Authority to Acquire [tribal] Land into Trust in Alaska

 

• The United States of America [Land Patent] Tetlin Native Corporation — is entitled to a Land Patent pursuant to Sec. 19(b) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of December 18, 1971 (85 Stat. 688, 710; 43 U.S.G. 1601, 1618(b)), as amended, of the surface and subsurface estates in the following described lands,… Containing 743,147.34 acres.

 

• Tetlin Community Plans (2010, 2015, 2020)

Land Ownership

Tetlin Village Council owns 643,174 acres of surface and subsurface land and the Tetlin Native Corporation owns 100,000 acres of surface and subsurface land.

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