Haa Aaní By the Numbers... Sealaska has developed a map in order to clarify the complexities of Haa Aaní and make the information readily available to shareholders. To download a PDF of this map, please click here.
On the map, the yellow areas represent 327,000 acres from which Sealaska must currently select its remaining 85,000 acre entitlement. Haa Aaní proposes that Sealaska instead withdraw from the green areas on the map--95,000 total acres from which Sealaska will select 77,000.
The Congressional Hearing On November 14, Sealaska board member and former President and CEO Byron Mallott went before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources to discuss Haa Aaní—legislation
that would finalize Sealaska’s land entitlement under ANCSA and secure
sacred sites for the people of Southeast Alaska.
Sealaska prepared an informational packet for the hearing that included:
To read a transcript of Mallott’s testimony at the hearing, please click here.
To read about the legislation being introduced in Congress in September 2007, read our news item.
PowerPoint Sealaska
has worked for years with Native communities and numerous interest
groups to shape an appropriate solution to the problems posed by the
government’s unfulfilled promise to the Native people of Southeast
Alaska. To view the presentation that Sealaska has prepared
for shareholders at community meetings,
please click
here [PDF].