At a board of directors meeting held at Klukwan on July 16, 1975, Irene Rowan, president of Klukwan Inc., reported that legislation is pending in the U.S. Congress to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
In 1957, Congress gave Chilkat Indian Village authority to lease the iron ore deposits located underneath the reserve lands. By a 1959 amendment to its bylaws, the village, which is an Indian Reorganization Act corporation, provided that only residents…