Sealaska Asks for Your Support

In 1996, the remains of a mariner who lived 10,000 years ago was unearthed on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The mariner is considered to be a distant cousin to the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimpsian people of today who call Southeast Alaska home.

Ten thousand years later, the indigenous people of Southeast Alaska are fighting to obtain a small fraction of their traditional lands.

Sealaska Director Byron Mallott recently discussed the importance of recognizing Southeast Alaska as a Native place. His presentation at a Tongass Futures Roundtable work session, “The Unique Role Alaska Natives Play in the Tongass,” provides insight to an important topic facing tribal leaders today.

Video provided by True North Video Production, LLC, owned and operated by Sealaska tribal member shareholder, Brad Fluetsch

The presentation by Director Mallott should help people better understand the connection Southeast Natives have to the land. For thousands of years, Southeast Natives have lived off the land and continue to live from the land.

To protect our connection to the land, Sealaska encourages tribal member shareholders to support the Corporation’s final land entitlement promised under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Congress approved ANCSA in 1971.

Under ANCSA, Sealaska Corporation was intended to receive up to 370,000 acres of traditional lands. To date only 290,000 acres have been conveyed. The final land entitlement owed to Sealaska is before Congress in the form of S.881 and H.R. 2099.

Sealaska needs tribal member shareholders to relay their support to the Alaska Congressional delegation. Go here to sign a letter of support. Gunalchéesh, How-ah.

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