Editing Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (section)

==Criticism of ANCSA==
There was largely positive reaction to ANCSA, although not entirely.<ref name=brown>{{cite web|title=Interview of Margie Brown|url=http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=History-and-Culture&page=ANCSA-at-30&cat=Interviews&viewpost=2&ContentId=742|website=LitSite Alaska|publisher=University of Alaska Anchorage|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=saga470>{{cite book|last1=Borneman|first1=Walter R.|title=Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land|date=2009|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=978-0061865275|pages=470–472|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9QXxo-MeUEC&q=ANCSA|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> The act was supported by Natives as well as non-Natives, and likewise enjoyed bipartisan support.<ref name=brown/><ref name=audubon>{{cite web|last1=Myers|first1=Eric F.|title=Letter to Rep. Don Young dated May 15, 2013|url=http://ak.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/representative_young_-_sealaska_hr_740_5-15-13_final.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ak.audubon.org/sites/default/files/documents/representative_young_-_sealaska_hr_740_5-15-13_final.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|publisher=Audubon Alaska|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> Natives were heavily involved in the legislative process, and the final draft of the act used many AFN ideas.<ref name=AFN>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.nativefederation.org/about-afn/history/|website=Alaska Federation of Natives|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>

Some Natives have argued that ANCSA has hastened cultural genocide of Alaska Natives.<ref name=haycoxprologue>{{cite book|last1=Haycox|first1=Steven|title=Alaska: An American Colony|date=2006|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=0295986298|pages=xiii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=natRq6WCu4oC&q=genocide&pg=PR13|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=williams>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Maria Sháa Tláa|title=The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics|date=2009|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822390831|pages=180–181|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qe5vzMqJW0C&q=ANCSA&pg=PA388|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> Some Natives critiqued ANCSA as an illegitimate treaty since only tribal leaders were involved and the provisions of the act were not voted on by indigenous populations.<ref name=williams/> One native described it as a social and political experiment.<ref name=williams/> Critics have also argued that Natives so feared massacre or incarceration that they offered no resistance to the act.<ref name=williams/>

Others have argued that the settlement was arguably the most generous afforded by the United States to a Native group. They note that some of the largest and most profitable corporations in the state are the twelve created by ANCSA.<ref name=linxwiler4/><ref name=saga528>{{cite book|last1=Borneman|first1=Walter R.|title=Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land|date=2009|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=978-0061865275|pages=528–529|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9QXxo-MeUEC&q=ANCSA|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> Other critics attacked the act as "Native welfare" and such complaints continue to be expressed.<ref name=saga470/>

The corporation system has been critiqued, as in some cases stockholders have sold land to outside corporations that have leveled forests and extracted minerals.<ref name=rude>{{cite web|title=Robert W. Rude|url=http://www.litsite.org/index.cfm?section=History-and-Culture&page=ANCSA-at-30&cat=Interviews&viewpost=2&ContentId=734|website=LitSite Alaska|publisher=University of Alaska Anchorage|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref> But supporters of the system argue that it has provided economic benefits for indigenous peoples that outweigh these problems.<ref name=rdc>{{cite web|title=Alaska's Native Corporations|url=http://www.akrdc.org/issues/nativecorporations/overview.html|publisher=Resource Development Council for Alaska, Inc.|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref><ref name=do>{{cite book|last1=Roderick (Ed.)|first1=Libby|title=Do Alaska Native People Get Free Medical Care?|date=2008|publisher=University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University|isbn=978-1-4276-3215-9|pages=24|url=http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/books-of-the-year/year08-09/upload/Book108-09.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/books-of-the-year/year08-09/upload/Book108-09.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|access-date=1 December 2014}}</ref>