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Topic: Annette Island (Alaska)

	Metlakatla, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is on the Port Chester harbor, on Annette Island, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Ketchikan.
		In 1887 the group arrived on the island and built a settlement in the Port Chester area of the island.
		Travelers into Metlakatla usually reach it the Alaska Marine Highway ferry or by traveling to Ketchikan, on Revillagigedo Island and crossing the Revillagigedo Channel that separates Annette and Revillagigedo Islands by boat or seaplane.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metlakatla,_Alaska (724 words)

	Alaska Division of Community Advocacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 86,000 acre Island reservation and surrounding 3,000 feet of coastal waters are locally-controlled and not subject to state jurisdiction.
		Annette Island Packing Co. is a cold storage facility owned by the community.
		The Annette Island Airport is owned and operated by the community, with a 7,500' asphalt runway and a 5,700' gravel crosswind runway.
	www.dced.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CF_BLOCK.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Metlakatla&Data_Type=Overview (777 words)

	Tsimshian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island was founded as a reservation for the Tsimshian people and is the only Indian reservation in Alaska.
		They maintained their reservation status and holdings exclusive of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and thus do not have an associated Native Corporation, although Tsimshian in Alaska may be shareholders of the Sealaska Corporation.
		The Annette Island reservation is the only location in Alaska allowed to maintain fish traps, which were otherwise banned when Alaska became a state in 1959.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tsimshian (833 words)

	www.ilovealaska.com/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The community was not part of ANSCA, rather, the 86,000 acre Island reservation and surrounding 3,000 feet of coastal waters are locally-controlled and not subject to state jurisdiction.
		Annette Island Packing Co. is a cold storage and cannery owned by the community.
		The Annette Island Airport is owned and operated by the community, and two seaplane bases are available - one State-owned.
	www.ilovealaska.com /alaska/cities.cfm?cityid=204 (748 words)

	Annette
		Annette is located on Annette Island, one of the islands at the southern tip of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and is 20 airline miles south of Ketchikan.
		Due to the proximity of Pacific Ocean waters, particularly to the south and west, the climate of Annette is maritime.
		Because it is located almost directly in the path of easterly-moving storms crossing the Gulf of Alaska, Annette experiences frequent and relatively heavy precipitation with annual amounts closely approximating that of the immediate coastal regions of Washington and Oregon.
	climate.gi.alaska.edu /Stations/Seast/Annette.html (363 words)

	Fairbanks ANE ANCSA Teacher's Guide
		When Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, there was no provision in the law for private ownership in the new territory, except for the private individual property holders who had obtained written title to the land under the Russians.
		Then, because of a growing non-Native population in Alaska, the discovery of a vast oil field on the North Slope, and increasing demands for that oil in the lower 48, the question of "who owns Alaska" became a national issue in 1971.
		Organized group of Alaska Natives for the land freeze on federal lands until land claims issues were solved, and the recommendation to Congress of the Land Claims Act.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /ane (6904 words)

	Ketchikan Mining District Study - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Geology of Annette, Gravina, and Duke Islands, Southeastern Alaska.
		Geology and Geochemistry of the Craig A-2 Quadrangle and Vicinity, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska.
		Folio of the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert Quadrangles, Alaska - Interpretation of Landsat Imagery.
	www.blm.gov /ak/jrmic/ma/kmd/bibliology.html (8981 words)

	AGO_1961-62_No_172 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the act of March 3, 1891, Congress created a reservation for the use of these immigrants and such other Alaskan natives as might join them, to be used in common under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
		Annette Island Packing Co., 289 Fed. 671 (1923), held that the predecessor to the present company was exempt from an Alaskan income tax.
		Also, the Annette Island case was based upon the ground that the Metlakatla Indians were wards of the federal government, and that this status as wards would entitle them and their property to exemption from state taxation.
	www.atg.wa.gov /opinions/1961-62/opinion_1961-62_172.html (1739 words)

	Air Station Sitka
		Throughout this period Sitka, Alaska was a prominent refueling and staging point used by the Annette based Coast Guard aircraft.
		In March of 1977, the barracks and hangar on Japanski Island in the immediate vicinity of Sitka were completed, and the move of personnel and equipment from Annette Island to Sitka began.
		Sitka, with its population of approximately 8,000, is the largest community on the west coast of 1,607-square-mile Baranof Island.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/sitka.htm (963 words)

	Other Alaskan Communities
		The population of the community consists of 89.7% Alaska Native or part Native.
		Metlakatla is classified as an isolated town/Sub-Regional Center, it is found in EMS Region 3B in the Annette Island Region.
		This property is a few blocks from the Council Chambers, Annette Island Service Unit, Schools, Floatplanes and most everything else.
	www.alaskanow.com /town/metlakatla.htm (1013 words)

	Alaska Native Areas/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alaska Native Regional Corporations (ANRCs) are corporate entities established to conduct both business and nonprofit affairs of Alaska Natives.
		Alaska is divided into 12 Alaska Native Regional Corporations that cover all of the state except for the Annette Island Reserve.
		The Alaska Native Village Statistical Area (ANVSA) represent the settled portion of Alaska Native villages (ANVs), which constitute tribes, bands, clans, groups, villages, communities, or associations established also as part of the Settlement Act of 1972.
	www.census.gov /mso/www/rsf/geo_con/sld020.htm (176 words)

	LaughingBerry.Com: About Metlakatla Alaska
		Metlakatla, Alaska is on Annette Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, 17 miles south of Ketchikan.
		The school system of Metlakatla is under the Annette Islands School District and is operated by the State of Alaska.
		Membership in the Metlakatla Indian Community is limited to members of the Tsimshian Tribe or other Alaska Natives who are 18 years of age or older and have resided in Metlakatla for at least one year.
	www.laughingberry.com /met.html (1305 words)

	Welcome to SLED :: FAQ Alaska
		In the 250 years since Europeans found Alaska, much of that oral history was lost, what was recorded does not correspond to the Western manner of recording events on a calendar basis.
		Alaska Native Brotherhood convention at Haines resolves to pursue land claims settlement in Southeast Alaska.
		Alaska voters pick Willow as new capital site; voters approve constitutional amendment establishing Alaska Permanent Fund to receive "at least 25 percent" of all state oil revenues and related income.
	sled.alaska.edu /akfaq/akchron.html (3864 words)

	Annette Island Class E Airspace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The action was proposed in order to establish Class E airspace sufficient in size to contain aircraft while executing Special Instrument Approach Procedures at the Annette Island Airport.
		New Class E controlled airspace extending upward from 700 ft. above the surface within a 4.5-mile radius of the Annette Island Airport is established by this action.
		This regulation is within the scope of that authority because it creates Class E airspace sufficient in size to contain aircraft executing Instrument Approach Procedures for the Annette Island Airport and represents the FAA's continuing effort to safely and efficiently use the navigable airspace.
	www.alaska.faa.gov /at/Finalrules/annette.htm (774 words)

	25 CFR PART 241 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Annette Islands Reserve is defined as the Annette Islands in Alaska, as set apart as a reservation by section 15 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat.
		Subsistence fishing within the Annette Islands Reserve shall be in accordance with the season, gear and bag restrictions established by rule or regulation of the Alaska Board of Fish and Game for Commercial Fishing in Fishing District No. 1.
		Sport fishing within the Annette Islands Reserve shall be in accordance with the season, gear and bag restrictions established by rule or regulation for Southeastern Alaska by the Alaska Board of Fish and Game.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /documents/cfr/title25/part241.html (1309 words)

	Stories in the News (Sitnews) - Ketchikan, Alaska - News: Marines return home after Operation Alaskan Road
		The Marines were participating in a joint military and community based project, which was started in 1998 in hopes to construct a 14.5-mile, two-lane gravel road that would be a part of a transportation link between the Metlakatlan and Ketchikan road systems.
		Travel from the Annette Island road system to the Revilla Island road system will be completed by ferry.
		During their stay in Alaska, MWSS-171 joined the ranks of Joint Forces Engineer Component Command in its endeavor to complete the road by its projected date of 2007.
	www.sitnews.us /1003news/100603/100603_usmc_news.html (493 words)

	Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Borough - Please adopt me!
		Annette Island is located across from the Alaska mainland on the east and across from Revillagigedo Island on the north.
		The largest settlement on the island is Metlakatla, the only federally recognized Indian reservation in Alaska.
		The Island was originally inhabited by Tlingit and Haida Tribes for centuries before Spanish explorers first came in the 1770's, naming many of the surrounding islands, inlets, and waterways.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ak/state/boro-pow_outketch.html (441 words)

	Troy's Me Page
		Annette Island is the only Indian Reservation in the state of Alaska.
		Metlakatla is the home of the Tsimshian people who migrated to Annette Island from British Columbia in 1876 under the leadership of Father Duncan, an Anglican priest.
		This turret is on the southwestern tip of Annette Island, facing west, towards Japan....
	www.people.virginia.edu /~trm7k/alaska.html (476 words)

	Metlakatla oysters debut in Fairbanks
		The state-certified oysters were cooked and served by staff of the Alaska Sea Grant Program, a marine research, education and extension agency at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
		Located on Annette Island in Southeast Alaska about 15 miles southwest of Ketchikan, the 129-square-mile reservation is home to about 1,500 Tsimshian Indians.
		He said the island could easily produce as many oysters as the rest of the state's farms combined.
	seagrant.uaf.edu /news/05news/08-18-05oysters.html?ni=141 (699 words)

	Alaskan Road Project Resumes on Annette Island
		CAMP WY-WUH, Alaska - Operation Alaskan Road is underway again as a joint task force resumes work this summer on a 14.5-mile road across the rugged terrain of Annette Island.
		This seasonal project is in its ninth year, a continuing effort to make good on a 60-year-old promise by the Alaska Road Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers to the island's Metlakatla Indian Community.
		The road was originally proposed circa 1946, when a route was surveyed by the Alaska Road Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers, according to information provided by Sol Atkinson, spokesman for the Metlakatla Indian Community.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usa1_042705.00.html (448 words)

	Alaska.com \| Other cities & towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Metlakatla is a traditional Tsimshian community on the federal Annette Island Reserve.
		The village, with a population of about 1,500, is on Port Chester on the western coast of Annette Island, 15 miles south of Ketchikan.
		The community was not part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
	www.alaska.com /places/cities/other_cities/story/4565654p-4889872c.html (489 words)

	Bering Sea.com: Communities: Metlakatla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		89.7% of the population are Alaska Native or part Native.
		The largest employer is the Metlakatla Indian Community, which operates the hatchery, the sawmill, the tribal court, and all local services.
		Annette Island Packing Co. is a cold storage facility owned by the community (the cannery no longer operates.) 49 residents hold commercial fishing permits.
	www.beringsea.com /communities/index.php?community=231 (1109 words)

	Edward Huey, CCCMan, Alaska
		Annette Island, a flat, boggy island of about ten square miles, located twenty-five miles south of Ketchikan, was chosen as the site of a ten-thousand-foot runway and refueling station.
		Construction on the island involved the erection of a camp to accommodate twelve hundred men (four hundred additional engineers came later), and the construction of a five-mile truck road to haul rock from a quarry, as well as a pipeline (partly below sea level) to bring water to the camp.
		The "jingle" to working in alaska was that citizenship would be received for the work.
	www.geocities.com /oralbio/hueyebio.html (520 words)

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		Parents or eligible students may ask the Annette Island School District to amend a record they believe is inaccurate or misleading.
		If the Annette Island School District decides not to amend the record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the Annette Island School District will notify the parent or eligible student of the decision and advise them of their right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment.
		Upon request, the Annette Island School District discloses education records, including special education records, without consent to officials of another school district in which a student seeks or intends to enroll.
	aisd.k12.ak.us /download_files/FERPA.doc (543 words)

	Alaska-Wasington Airways
		Bob Ellis was to be one of the most successful aviation businessmen in Alaska.
		He went on to fly for Pacific Alaska Airlines (a subsidiary of Pan American Airlines).
		He later started Ellis Airlines out of Ketchikan and later merged with Sheldon Simmons' Alaska Coastal Airlines in 1962, making it the largest airline ever to operate in South East Alaska exclusively.
	www.geocities.com /alaskanheritage/alaskawashingtonairways.html (393 words)

	Yukon & Alaska Government, Police and Military Features - ExploreNorth
		Throughout the bitter cold during the construction of the Alaska Highway, crews kept their sense of humour, even inventing an appropriate mascot.
		Following the Japanese invasion of Alaska, the Canol was envisioned as the answer to a safe supply of fuel for Allied forces in the North.
		This memorial is dedicated to the officers who have died in the line of duty in Alaska.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/ya/blindexgovt.htm (274 words)

	Operation Alaskan Road: Press Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		CAMP WY WUH, ANNETTE ISLAND, Alaska — More than 250 members of the United States Armed Forces once again began the seasonal journey to Camp Wy Wuh, Ak in support of Operation Alaskan Road.
		ANNETTE ISLAND, ALASKA - After sitting nearly deserted through the winter months, the Wy Wuh Training Site is now bustling with activity.
		ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - A United States Marine Corps amphibious task force landed 180 Marines on Annette Island, south of Ketchikan, July 30 to begin Operation Alaskan Road.
	www.elmendorf.af.mil /ALCOM/AKRoad/press.htm (669 words)

	Alaska Native tribal governments
		Community profiles for each community in Alaska provide a one-page summary of information about location, geography, climate, history, and facts about residents and community facilities and utilities; detailed community information provides census, economic, government, and other information for each community.
		Resources on Alaska Native governments from the Alaska Native Studies Curriculum and Teacher Development.
		A private, statewide, nonprofit corporation which promotes maximum participation by residents of rural villages in overcoming poverty in Alaska; provides education, training, direct services, and advocacy, with an emphasis on strengthening the ability of rural Alaskans to advocate for themselves.
	justice.uaa.alaska.edu /rlinks/natives/ak_tribalgovt.html (293 words)

	Alaska Sea Grant Fishlines Newsletter, October 2002
		In an effort to seek input from the varied marine resource users in Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant is requesting public comments and suggestions as we begin planning for our next five years.
		Because the southeastern Alaska island is experiencing 85% unemployment, the tribal council authorized the Annette Island Indian Reserve's Department of Natural Resources to develop a shellfish aquaculture program as soon as possible.
		The island is not subject to state jurisdiction, so residents are free to pursue clam farming with no need to meet Alaska state government requirements.
	seagrant.uaf.edu /news/fishlines/Oct02.html (1190 words)

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