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[[File:Will Yaska of Pueblo, Colorado, a Koyukon (an Alaska Native Athabaskan people), was among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central LCCN2015633372.tif|thumb|right|200px|A [[Koyukon people|Koyukon]] man in
In 1971, with the support of Alaska Native leaders such as [[Emil Notti]], [[Willie Hensley]], and [[Byron Mallott]], the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passed the [[Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act]] (ANCSA), which settled [[Aboriginal land claims|land and financial claims]] for lands and resources which the Alaska Natives had lost to [[European Americans|European-Americans]]. It provided for the establishment of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the separately defined status of the [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[List of Canadian Inuit|Inuit]] and [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] in Canada, which are recognized as distinct peoples, in the United States, Alaska Natives or Native Alaskans are in some respects treated separately by the government from other [[Native Americans in the United States]]. This is in part related to their interactions with the U.S. government which occurred in a different historic period than its interactions during the period of [[Territorial evolution of the United States|westward expansion]] during the 19th-century.
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