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MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2001 A group of Alaska Native villages and one Alaska Native corporation don't have the right to land in a national park, a federal judge ruled last week. The villages of Chickaloon, Seldovia, Knik, Tyonek and Ninilchik and and Cook Inlet Region Inc. claimed 30,000 acres of prime shoreline in what is now Lake Clark National Park. They said the Department of Interior in 1976 had promised them the land. But the Interior disagreed and wouldn't grant the land under the agreement. US District Judge James K. Singleton on Monday said the agreement was unambiguous about which land the villages would get so he decied in Interior's favor. Get the Story:
Natives lose in court (The Anchorage Daily News 8/25)
Native villages lose land claim
Facebook TwitterMONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2001 A group of Alaska Native villages and one Alaska Native corporation don't have the right to land in a national park, a federal judge ruled last week. The villages of Chickaloon, Seldovia, Knik, Tyonek and Ninilchik and and Cook Inlet Region Inc. claimed 30,000 acres of prime shoreline in what is now Lake Clark National Park. They said the Department of Interior in 1976 had promised them the land. But the Interior disagreed and wouldn't grant the land under the agreement. US District Judge James K. Singleton on Monday said the agreement was unambiguous about which land the villages would get so he decied in Interior's favor. Get the Story:
Natives lose in court (The Anchorage Daily News 8/25)
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