Arm in arm, toe-to-toe, Sealaska tribal member shareholders are united in their quest to secure acreage owed for a debt unpaid on behalf of the federal government and the people of the United States since 1971.
Nearly four decades or 40 years have not satisfied this debt totally. To date, nearly 5,000 shareholders have passed away to walk in the forest and will never realize the land claims settlement fully.
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EDITOR, Daily News:
Arm in arm, toe-to-toe, Sealaska tribal member shareholders are united in their quest to secure acreage owed for a debt unpaid on behalf of the federal government and the people of the United States since 1971.
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Ketchikan deer hunters who enjoy hunting on Prince of Wales Island are probably aware of the "no trespassing" signs bordering Sealaska Corp. land near Klawock. Now some of your favorite north Prince of Wales hunting areas are facing the same future. Sealaska Corp. is asking for a land transfer of north POW Island acreage, much land on Kosciusko Island and many other sites via Senate Bill 881 and HR2099.
I urge you to fax your opposition to this legislation to Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich and Jeff Bingaman.
MICHAEL NICHOLS
Port Protection
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EDITOR, Daily News:
Ketchikan deer hunters who enjoy hunting on Prince of Wales Island are probably aware of the "no trespassing" signs bordering Sealaska Corp. land near Klawock. Now some of your favorite north Prince of Wales hunting areas are facing the same future. Sealaska Corp. is asking for a land transfer of north POW Island acreage, much land on Kosciusko Island and many other sites via Senate Bill 881 and HR2099.
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No one is trying to deprive Sealaska Corp. of the rest of its entitlement land, like it is pretending at meetings and on the radio. It has had land from which to select for more than 30 years, just like all the other Native corporations.
To try, at this late date, to make a new land selection outside the already existing entitlement areas is unfair. It is unfair to the other Native corporations, which finished their claims in timely fashion. Will they, too, get to make new claims? It is also unfair to land uses which have developed over time on lands which were not selected by a Native corporation.
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EDITOR, Daily News:
No one is trying to deprive Sealaska Corp. of the rest of its entitlement land, like it is pretending at meetings and on the radio. It has had land from which to select for more than 30 years, just like all the other Native corporations.
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If SB881 passes into law, up to 50 acres at the following "Futures Sites" will be transferred from the Tongass to Sealaska: Those sites are # 15 Dog Cove; # 16 Coho Cove; # 25 Behm Narrows; # 26 Shrimp Bay and # 32 (on east the coast of POW Island) Clover Creek. Is that not important enough to discuss with Ketchikan residents.
According to SB 881, "Alaska Native Future Sites to facilitate appropriate tourism and outdoor recreation enterprises."
If SB881 passes into law, undetermined acreages at 11 sites scattered through out the Misty Fiords Wilderness Area and National Monument will be transferred from the public domain to Sealaska ownership as sacred, cultural, and historic sites. Is that not important enough to discuss with Ketchikan residents.
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EDITOR, Daily News:
If SB881 passes into law, up to 50 acres at the following "Futures Sites" will be transferred from the Tongass to Sealaska: Those sites are # 15 Dog Cove; # 16 Coho Cove; # 25 Behm Narrows; # 26 Shrimp Bay and # 32 (on east the coast of POW Island) Clover Creek. Is that not important enough to discuss with Ketchikan residents.
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As I enter my 11th year of trying to purchase or long-term lease waterfront property in Ward Cove, perhaps this information from a Dec. 30, 2005, posting by Dave Kiffer will help folks understand the history behind the present circumstances in Ward Cove:
"The Ketchikan Gateway Borough moved closer to getting its Ward Cove properties back on the tax rolls in 2005. The borough had received title to more than 200 acres of property in 2001 when Gateway Forest Products defaulted on loans. The borough also purchased the GFP Veneer Mill a year later.
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EDITOR, Daily News:
As I enter my 11th year of trying to purchase or long-term lease waterfront property in Ward Cove, perhaps this information from a Dec. 30, 2005, posting by Dave Kiffer will help folks understand the history behind the present circumstances in Ward Cove:
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