🚀 go-pugleaf

Much of this is so ignorant I just have to reply.

 They are lands owned by the
> state, since the corporations are last I heard Incorporated thru
> the State of Alaska laws dealing with Corporations (Incorporated
> bodies).

Really?  A lot of other businesses are also corporations incorporated thru
the State of Alaska.  I guess all that property that Mapco, Tesoro, Carrs,
and any of the thousands of other business in the state owned are actually
owned by the State.  Gee I never knew that, I so glad you told us!

Alaska can not supposedly get the lands in Alaska that
> were promised/agreed on by the Statehood Compact.

I guess you are behind.  Alaska has very little of this 104 million acres
left to select.  What the state is waiting for is SURVEY of the property so
that it can all be conveyed.  This is also the case with most of the native
corporation land, including the parcel of Doyon owned land that is in
dispute here.  

> If the native corporations wish to be sovereign bodies.

Native corporations don't.  The Native Tribes do.  There is a big
difference.

> ... basically no more BIA/IHS (Bureau of Indian
> Affairs/Indian Health Services), no more grants from the
> Feds/States, no more AFDC (Aid For Dependent Children), also they
> will have to negotiate with the State of Alaska for being able to
> leave the Reservation! Since if the native lands is truely
> sovereign then the residents of the reservation are foreign
> nationals and will need a VISA.

Open your mouth and look what spills out.  The sovereignty that they are
talking about is on par with the sovereignty that the State of Alaska has. 
Last time I checked, you didn't need a VISA to get into this State,
although many narrow minded people would maybe like to see it.

> Basically what I am saying is in many ways up to now, the
> Indians/Eskimos/Aleuts have been given a free ride (I know they
> suffered in the past, but that is the past). Now is the time to
> finally become adults in more than name only.

Any you as a tax paying (oops, I forgot, no State sales, income, property
taxes) do pay your fair share of the way!

> I strongly suspect that in many villages with out State/Federal
> money the towns will DIE or have a much lower standard of living.

Especially those totally dependant places such as Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Juneau, Nome, Ketchikan ... who have had their water, sewer, dumps, roads,
electrical, and other systems almost exclusively built by State and Federal
Grants.

> Or as someone once said, be careful what you ask for, you just
> might get it, and it often is worse than what you thought it
> would be.

Be very careful!  Remember in the mid 80's when the legislature cut back
funding and the economies of Anchorage and Fairbanks (I'll use these two
because they are the bastions of western culture in Alaska and accordingly
pay thier own way), went down the tubes extremely quickly.  Well just wait
and see what happens if the legislature does cut 60 million out of the
budget this year.  The banks will have to put those boxes up again so folks
can drop their keys off as they are leaving the State.