Editing Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (section)

===Native Land Claims Task Force===
In 1967, Governor [[Walter Hickel]] summoned a group of Indigenous leaders and politicians to work out a settlement that would be satisfactory to Natives.<ref name="Miner, 1967">{{cite news |title=37 Named to Land Claims Task Force |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5848136/fairbanks-daily-news-miner/ |access-date=11 October 2022 |work=[[Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]] |date=11 November 1967 |location=Fairbanks, Alaska |page=6 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Among the appointees were politicians Raymond C. Christiansen, [[Willie Hensley]], [[Carl E. Moses]], [[John Sackett|John C. Sackett]], and [[Jules Wright (politician)|Jules Wright]]. Indigenous members included [[George Attla]], Cecil Barnes, Laura Bergt, [[John Borbridge Jr|John Borbridge]], [[Alice E. Brown|Alice Brown]], Harry Carter, Jerry Crow, Jeff David, Frank Degnan, Andrew Demonski, Mark Ewan, Richard Frank, Charles Franz, Tom Gregoroff, [[Eben Hopson]], Axel Johnson, Flore Lekanoff, Tony Lewis, [[Byron Mallott]], Emil McCord, Elva Naanes, Hugh Nicholls, [[Emil Notti]], George Olson, [[Howard Rock]], Harvey Samuelson, [[Walter Soboleff]], Seraphim Stephan, Richard Stitt, George Trigg, [[Don Wright (politician)|Donald R. Wright]] and Lula Young.<ref name="Miner, 1967" />|group="Notes"}} The group met for ten days and asked for $20 million in exchange for requested lands.<ref name=ray/> Among the other task force proposals were an outright grant of 1,000 acres per native village resident; a revenue-sharing program for state land claims and national mineral development projects; secured hunting and fishing rights on public lands; and a Native Commission to administrate state and federal compliance with the provisions of the claims settlement.<ref name="Miner, 1968">{{cite news |title=Hickel Sees Satisfactory Settling of Land Claims |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111118818/fairbanks-daily-news-miner/ |access-date=11 October 2022 |work=[[Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]] |date=12 January 1968 |location=Fairbanks, Alaska |page=7 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> They proposed receiving 10% of federal mineral lease revenue for ten years,<ref name=frigid>{{cite book|last1=Haycox|first1=Stephen W.|author-link=Stephen Haycox|title=Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska|date=2002|publisher=Oregon University Press|isbn=0870715364|pages=99–112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQUYAAAAYAAJ&q=ten+percent|access-date=29 November 2014}}</ref> once the freeze which had been placed on land patents to allow oil exploration was lifted.<ref name="Berry, 1975" >{{cite book |last1=Berry |first1=Mary Clay |title=The Alaska Pipeline: The Politics of Oil and Native Land Claims |url=https://archive.org/details/alaskapipelinepo00berr/page/49/mode/1up |date=1975 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |location=Bloomington, Indiana |isbn=978-0-253-10064-1}}</ref>{{rp|49}}