Jaeleen Kookesh
305:50 - 306:44
“they extinguished our Aboriginal title, our Aboriginal use and occupancy rights, and our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. ANCSA did create a replacement for the Aboriginal title and use by giving us 44 million acres of land.”
- Speaker
- Jaeleen Kookesh
- Timestamp
- 305:50 – 306:44
- Transcript
- Facebook video 1118570150823121
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
So what the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act did— and as countries deal with Indigenous people, they generally at some point extinguish or resolve or do away with our Aboriginal rights and replace them with Western or legal rights that are written on paper, right? So that happens across the world. So that's what happened in Inksa. They extinguished our Aboriginal title, our Aboriginal use and occupancy rights, and our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. ANCSA did create a replacement for the Aboriginal title and use by giving us 44 million acres of land.
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