What these bills at their heart attempt to resolve is issues with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that this Congress passed some 38 years ago.
if you're going to accelerate you need the funding. But you need to ask for it.
Almost everyone agrees that Sealaska should be able to gain the last 65,000 to 85,000 acres promised the corporation by ...
I appreciate the administration's statement of support for S. 522.
It seems to me that the appropriate response here is to say that we've got to do more within the budget to allow for the...
What we're trying to provide here is equity to the Sealaska shareholders.
I would suggest to you that 38 years for the Sealaska people to wait for their lands is not treating them fairly.
I don't want this to be a situation where this legislation that would bring, equity to the Sealaska people would be held...
I very much appreciate your sense of urgency and understand that this is an important issue and that it does have to be ...
The difficulty is in managing those expectations.
We still would ask for the assistance that we gained in 2007 with that study.