Wrangell Sentinel -

Representatives from Sealaska were in Wrangell last week to hold a community-wide meeting on the topic of partnering with Haa Aani to discuss economic development and to hammer out the final form of an initiative to repatriate Native lands to shareholders in Southeast Alaska.

The bill, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act, would amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and would cede hundreds of thousands of acres to Sealaska.

If passed, it would allow Sealaska to select lands outside the original areas of ANCSA to fulfill the corpor...