ANCSA

Congress immediately extinguished all Alaska Native rights to traditional land [conf. section 4], it did not, in return, immediately pay Alaska Natives.

To add to the with-holding of funds,

Section 6(b): None of the funds paid or distributed pursuant to this section to any of the Regional and Village Corporations established pursuant to this Act shall be expended, donated, or otherwise used for the purpose of carrying on propaganda, or intervening in (including the publishing and distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Any person who willfully violates the foregoing provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than twelve months, or both.

They hand cuffed the money given to the Natives. That money could not be spent to gain the help of politicians or other persons regarding Native Corporations. The fact that section 6(b) was built into ANCSA is low. I take that back, if you are on the side of a government that wants to keep Alaska Natives in a situation where it would be nearly impossible to influence their future and to gain the support of those in power such as policy makers, than section 6(b) is great.
I know it is a fact, and is now a part of history, the thing that burns me is that if given the opportunity to do it again, the government would follow the same route.

According to section 10(a) : . . . any civil action to contest the authority of the United States to legislate on the subject matter or the legality of this Act shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within one year of enactment of the Act . . .

That the Natives only had one year after enacted to dispute any of the Act was not fair. The Natives were so involved with adhering to what needed to be set up so they can function as a Corporation, they did not have time to fully go through the act with a fine tooth comb and pull out all the bugs.

To put the greed of those involved with the pipeline ahead of the need for informed consent of the Alaskan Natives is sad. With the rushed implementation of ANCSA, and with all the embedded wording, not to mention the trauma and racial discrimination that Natives have gone through, it is no wonder that there is such a need for help in Native populated areas.