Jaeleen Kookesh
306:52 - 307:26
"it extinguished our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. And it didn't specifically replace that with clear legal rights to our hunting and fishing."
“it extinguished our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. And it didn't specifically replace that with clear legal rights to our hunting and fishing.”
- Speaker
- Jaeleen Kookesh
- Timestamp
- 306:52 – 307:26
- Transcript
- Facebook video 1118570150823121
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
So it did replace that Aboriginal use and title with actual title, fee title to 44 million acres of land, but it extinguished our Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights. And it didn't specifically replace that with clear legal rights to our hunting and fishing. What it did was create a promise for dealing with it. If you see, there was a reference in the Congressional Record that the state and the Secretary of Interior were supposed to deal with our hunting and fishing rights. They didn't put it in a statute in ANCSA.
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