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Steve Krizman
@thewrongturn.co

What if Alaska Natives had been allowed to administer lands on their own terms instead of the oil companies'? The land would be managed for the benefit of seven generations.

Steve Krizman
@thewrongturn.co

When the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was negotiated in 1971, the people who had lived on the land for centuries had a take-it-or-leave-it offer on the table: $1 billion in oil money plus 40 million acres to be named later.

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Steve Krizman
@thewrongturn.co

My essay today is about Howard Rock, an Inupiat who saved his village from. being nuked, then helped bring the Alaska Natives together. He watched regretfully as wilderness was doled out to oil companies.