Wednesday, August 25, 2010
ANSCA- Subsurface and Surface land claims
So, the regional and village corporations are sharing the land in. The regional corporations, such as Doyon and CIRI, were given the rights to own the subsurface and the village corporations, like Haidi and Cape Fox, were given the rights to own the surface. Why did they do this? Why did they make it a "split estate." Did this make it easier somehow? I just don't know why they would do this instead of sharing subsurface and surface rights.
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i dont know either maybe the Natives at that time only cared about getting thier land back and proving that it was rightfully thiers. and maybe they wanted to split the land 50/50 so the Natives got the surface and the whites get the sub surface for th oil located there. but im just guessing here.
ReplyDeleteWell whats the point of being a new native when you're born after Dec. 1971? Thats what I dont get. How come we can't be shareholders after Dec 1971?
ReplyDeleteI remember reading about how the money was based off of what the natives needed to continue subsistance, not so much payback for past actions. I also think the arguement for not giving them subsurface rights was explained in one of the later sections of the act, which goes something like this:
ReplyDeleteAny village corporation enjoying neighboring towns or of an urban nature will not recieve as much benifits of ANCSA.
I think that is part of the argument against new natives as well.
I think that "new natives" should be shareholders as well and that the government should not control where the stock goes, native or non-native as long as it is where the original shareholder wants it to be. I also do not get exactly why it is regional corporations but not village corporations get to use the subsurface rights. Did they think that would help it go to better places?
Actually the regional corporations own both subsurface AND surface rights while the village corporation owns only surface rights. I think they gave the subsurface rights to the regional corporations because 1. The regional corporations were much larger 2. More employees have the right credentials and 3. The planning and organization of the regional corporation would have enough money to strategically use the subsurface natural resources correctly while the much smaller, locally focused village corporation would have a harder time drilling for oil or mining for minerals.
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