Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. That legislation cleared the way for the Trans Alaska Pipeline and created corporations to own Native lands in the state. It also wiped out aborginal hunting and fishing rights, which were partially restored nine years later in the Alaska Lands Act.
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