The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)

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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) has been one of the breakthrough policing perspectives that defined the essence of land ownership for the Alaskan Natives. This streamlined the understanding of land issues and has been instrumental in the essence of communal and native group and tribal land rights. The land and resource ownership claims were historically controversial in the United States until the ANCSA was enacted to enhance the clarity ont5he traditional land related rights (Maas, 2019). For instance, it also defined the essence of aboriginal hunting and fishing obligations and cultural practices that entail rights. In essence, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives.

Thus, this policy was crucial in streamlining the context of land in the community and creating the necessary discourse to make it possible for the communities and stakeholders to reduce the problematic revisions and create consistencies in land and resource ownership (Romero, 2017). The Alaskan Natives have benefited from the identified discourses and provisions in the ANCSA, hence a positive impact on the community regarding land and resource ownership.

References

Maas, D. (2019). The Native Claims Settlement Act and Self-Determination Values in Alaska’s Development Process. In Alaska’s Rural Development (pp. 157-167). Routledge.

Romero, A. (2017). Permission to Participate: Resource Governance in Alaska and Incorporating Alaska Native Participation through Alaska Native Corporations (Doctoral dissertation).