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1961 Alaska Native organizations unify; call for federal recognition of rights
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-19 at 5.06.07 PM_thumb.png2022-10-20T00:07:28+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4912Three regional Alaska Native organizations—the Alaska Native Brotherhood, the Dena Nena Henash, and the Iñupiat Paitot—agree to affiliate. The new group expresses strong disagreement with the U.S. Secretary of Interior’s Alaska Task Force report on land claims and needs. “Citing the land recommendations as ‘inadequate,’ the Indian organization made a series of concise but far-reaching proposals of its own including changes in the current Native Allotment Act to allow securing several tracts of non-contiguous land, the need for leasing for native benefit reserved tribal lands and future withdrawals, and the need for Congress to define aboriginal land rights of the natives and to establish a forum in which their claims may be heard.” —Tundra Times, 1961plain2022-10-20T00:18:45+00:001961Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49