Guide to Senator Ted Stevens’ papers. ANCSA papers
1962 – 1975
Collection number: HMC-1388.
Creator: Stevens, Ted.
Title: Senator Ted Stevens papers. ANCSA papers.
Dates of creation: 1962-1975.
Dates of record-keeping activity: 1969-1975, bulk 1969-1972.
Volume of collection: 7.7 cubic feet and 702 MB.
Language of materials: Materials in this collection are in English.
Collection summary: Congressional papers and photographs created and collected by U.S. Senator Stevens’ office relating to the original Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) passed on December 18, 1971.
Biographical note:
Senator Ted Stevens was an influential Alaskan political leader from the mid-1950s until his death in 2010. Beginning with the fight for Alaska Statehood, then his work in the Alaska State Legislature, and through his time as a U.S. Senator beginning in 1968, Stevens was a key player in the early decades of the state’s development and progress. His efforts and achievements continue to exist across Alaska and the United States today.
Theodore “Ted” Fulton Stevens was born on November 18, 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1946 in World War II as support for the “Flying Tigers” in the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section. Following the war, he graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in political science in 1947, and Harvard Law School in 1950 with his LLB.
Stevens began his practice in law in Washington, D.C. at the Northcutt Ely firm and worked on Alaskan Emil Usibelli’s legal affairs. He married Ann Mary Cherrington (1929-1978) in 1952 and they went on to have five children together. In 1953, the Stevens relocated to Fairbanks, Alaska and he began working with the law firm Collins and Clasby.
In 1954, Stevens was named U.S. Attorney in Fairbanks. He went on to be the Legislative Counsel for Interior Secretary Fred Seaton in 1956 and became well known for his work helping to gain Alaska Statehood. In 1960, Stevens was appointed Solicitor for the US Department of the Interior.
Stevens returned to Alaska in 1961 and in 1964 he won a seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, where he served until January 1968. During his second term he became House majority leader.
In 1968, Stevens ran for U.S. Senate and lost in the Republican primary to Elmer Rasmuson. However, Stevens was later appointed to the U.S. Senate on December 24, 1968 following the death of incumbent Senator E.L. “Bob” Bartlett. Stevens went on to serve over 40 years in the U.S Senate until 2008. He served as chair of a number of Senate committees and subcommittees and in a number of leadership positions including President Pro Tempore and Assistant Republican Leader during his time in office.
After Ann Stevens passed in 1978, Stevens married Catherine Chandler in 1980 and they had one child together. The Stevens split their time between homes in Girdwood, Alaska and Washington, D.C. until Stevens’ death on August 9, 2010 in a small plane crash near Dillingham, Alaska.
Collection description:
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) became law on December 18, 1971. It settled the legal question of Native land claims within Alaska that had been left unaddressed both when the land was purchased by the United States from Russia in 1867, and again under the 1958 Alaska Statehood Act. ANCSA was a groundbreaking method for addressing Indigenous land claims and is the first and only legislation of its kind in the United States.
Senator Stevens was a relatively new member of the U.S. Senate during the debates of ANCSA. He had been sworn in on December 24, 1968 and was immediately thrust into the land claims debate. In a 1991 Tundra Times reflection article, Stevens wrote:
ANCSA was my baptism of fire as a Senator from Alaska… It didn’t occur to me that some Senators had the opportunity to ease into their jobs. Life in the Senate for me was fast-paced from the beginning… With my experience working in the Department of the Interior and with the Statehood Act, and my faith in the determination and unity of purpose of Alaska’s Native people, I believed from the beginning that a settlement could be achieved… My memories of the Congressional action as ANCSA took shape aren’t of a battle as much as they are of long hours of tough, hard negotiating, often two steps forward and one step back…[1]
Given his background, Stevens understood the importance of a settlement originating from, and supported by, Alaska’s Native people. To that end, he worked to ensure that Alaska Native leaders had a seat at the table alongside other Alaskans such as former governor and Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickel; Governors Keith Miller and Bill Egan; Congressmen Howard Pollock and Nick Begich; and Senator Mike Gravel. The group was also supported by influential Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA), who ended up sponsoring one of the original ANCSA bills (S. 1830) along with Sens. Stevens and Gravel.
Stevens supported the settlement proposed by Native leaders, and worked to ensure it solved as many of the long-standing Aboriginal land claim issues as possible. He also supported its aspect of future economic development and self-sufficiency ideals for the Regional Corporations as a means to benefit their shareholders.
ANCSA was a compromise that took years to solidify as law, and amendments have been added numerous times over the past four decades. It is not foolproof, but Alaskans and their legislators have worked hard to address the issues that have arisen over the years and will continue to do so in the future.[2]
The ANCSA Papers are a sub-collection within the Ted Stevens Collection (TSC) that relate to the original ANCSA legislation and its surrounding history. The collection contains correspondence (letters and telegrams); memos; notes; bill prints and drafts; Federal Register excerpts; Public Law prints; conference and committee reports; floor statements, colloquies, and speeches; fact sheets; bill analyses, summaries, and comparisons; government publications and reports; research and reference materials; Congressional Record excerpts and copies; court and legal documents; hearing testimonies, questions, and reports; newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, and press releases; transcripts; and photographs.
Arrangement: The ANCSA sub-collection has been collated and arranged during processing for researcher access. Folders have been removed from their original boxes within the TSC and rearranged in chronological order within the following series:
Series 1: Legislative files; 1962-1973
Series 2: Correspondence files; 1969-1972
Series 3: Photographs; 1969-1975
Oversized items and maps have been removed from their original locations and placed in oversize containers.
Digitized copies: Photographs have been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact Archives and Special Collections.
Rights note: Documents created by U.S. federal government employees in the course of their work are in the public domain. Documents created under other circumstances may be subject to copyright not held by the Archives. Please consult the archivists for more information.
Preferred citation: Senator Ted Stevens papers. ANCSA papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Works used in preparation of inventory:
“ANCSA: A Scrapbook History – ANCSA was my baptism of fire.” Alaskool. Accessed August 25, 2021. http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/ancsa_scrapbook/scr00002.htm
“Biography of Senator Ted Stevens.” Ted Stevens Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2021. https://tedstevensfoundation.org/ted-stevens-biography/
“Ted Stevens.” Wikipedia. Accessed August 25, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens
“Ted Stevens Achievement Timeline.” Ted Stevens Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2021. https://tedstevensfoundation.org/ted-stevens-biography/achievements-timeline/
“Ted Stevens and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.” Ted Stevens Foundation. Accessed August 25, 2021. https://tedstevensfoundation.org/ts_and_ancsa/
Separated materials: Audiovisual materials were removed from the collection and are housed within the Ted Stevens Foundation’s Media Collection.
Related materials: Additional materials related to ANCSA in the Archives holdings are included in the Archives’ subject guide to ANCSA, ANILCA, and D-2 collections.
Custodial history: The Ted Stevens Collection was deposited with the Ted Stevens Foundation in 2015.
Acquisition note: Catherine Stevens donated the ANCSA papers to the Archives and signed a deed of gift in 2021.
Processing information: This collection was curated and described by Ted Stevens Foundation Head Archivist Jolene Kennah in 2021. When possible original folder titles were retained, archival staff created folder titles are in brackets [ ]. Constituent names, addresses, and other identifying information have been redacted from letters due to privacy concerns.
This collection contains all ANCSA related materials created or collected by Senator Stevens’ office from the time period of 1968-1972 to the best of the Ted Stevens Foundation’s knowledge. It may be expanded or added to as more materials are discovered within the larger Stevens’ Papers collection.
Container List:
Series 1: Legislative files; 1962-1973. 4.5 cubic feet.
This series contains papers created and collected by Stevens’ office related directly to the legislative process, such as: bill prints, correspondence, research, government publications, office memos, and notes. Papers contain handwritten notes between Stevens and his staff, and depict how legislation is drafted and changed over time.
The individual folder contents’ original order has been retained. When possible original folder titles were retained, archival staff created folder titles are in brackets [ ]. Highly acidic papers (i.e. Congressional Record pages) have been interleaved with non-acidic papers and copies have been made of newspaper clippings for researcher access. Paper clips and binder clips have been removed. Some loose items were placed in folders during processing.
| Box/Folder | Description | Date |
| 1/1 | [Report to secretary of interior by task force on Alaska Native Affairs 1962-12-28] | 1962 |
| 1/2 | Alaska Native land claims, 1967 & 1972 | 1967-1972 |
| 1/3 | [Alaska Native land claims 1968 hearings S. 2906, S. 1964, S. 2960, S. 2020] | 1968 |
| 1/4 | House and senate hearings 1968-71 | 1968-1971 |
| 1/5 | Land 1-2 Native land claim bills | 1969 |
| 1/6 | 91st Congress 1969 comparative drafts, analysis of measures | 1969 |
| 1/7 | 91st Congress 1969 committee memos, testimony | 1969 |
| 1/8 | 91st Congress 1969-70 departmental reports | 1969 |
| 1/9 | Materials on legal rights of Indians in US & Canada [1969] | 1969 |
| 1/10 | S. 3041 – Gravel sponsor land claims bill | 1969 |
| 1/11 | 91st Congress correspondence (research) 1969-1970 | 1969-1970 |
| 1/12 | 91st Congress 1969-70 research material on land claims | 1969-1971 |
| 1/13 | Alaska Native land claims | 1969-1971 |
| 2/1 | Claims, 1969-1971 | 1969-1971 |
| 2/2 | Alaska Native land claims and information pertinent to S. 1830 | 1969-1971 |
| 2/3 | [ANCSA hearings and conference report] | 1969-1971 |
| 2/4 | Native land claims & villages (dist. #15) | 1969-1972 |
| 2/5 | [Legal background, incorporation] | 1969-1972 |
| 2/6 | Land claims [draft report] | 1970 |
| 2/7 | 91st Congress 1970 committee and staff memos | 1970 |
| 2/8 | 91st Congress 1970 drafts, comparative drafts, committee prints | 1970 |
| 2/9 | Floor amendments to S. 1830 – 1970 | 1970 |
| 2/10 | Alaska Native claims debate 1970-07-14 | 1970 |
| 2/11 | Alaska claims debate 1970-07-15 | 1969-1970 |
| 2/12 | S. 1830 amdts [amendments] 112 & 221 as introduced in 91st congress, S. 1830 as reported in senate s. rept. [senate report] 91-926, S. 1830 as passed in senate [+ previous land claim bills] | 1967-1971 |
| 2/13 | S. 1517, S. 835, & S. 35 as introduced in 92nd congress, H.R. 10367 as reported in the house h. rept. [house report] 92-523, H.R. 10367 as passed in the house, S. 35 as reported in the senate s. rept. 92-405, H.R. 10367 as passed in the senate, H.R. 10367 conference report 92-746 (as P.L. [public law] reads). | 1970-1971 |
| 3/1 | [Native issues loose publications – ANCSA] | 1970-1971 |
| 3/2 | Conference committee 1971 committee memos, comparisons, conference research material | 1969-1971 |
| 3/3 | [ANCSA conference and committee reports] | 1971 |
| 3/4 | Alaskan peoples | 1971 |
| 3/5 | [ANCSA bills – S. 1830 and H.R. 10367] | 1971 |
| 3/6 | Floor amendments to S. 35 – 1971 | 1971 |
| 3/7 | 92nd Congress 1971 drafts, committee prints, and comparisons | 1971 |
| 3/8 | Amdts [amendments] for the Alaska Native land claims bill S. 35 1971-03-19 | 1971 |
| 3/9 | House land claims debate 1971-10-19 | 1971 |
| 3/10 | Alaska Native claims debate 1971-11-01 | 1971 |
| 3/11 | Permission to file conference report on H.R. 10367, Aspinall statement 1971-12-13 | 1971 |
| 3/12 | Debate on final passage of Alaska Native claims 1971-12-14 senate | 1971 |
| 3/13 | Congressional records | 1971-1972 |
| 3/14 | Clippings, 1971-1972 | 1971-1972 |
| 3/15 | Enrollment, 1972 | 1972 |
| 3/16 | Issues and information on village… | 1972 |
| 3/17 | [Loose – 1972 Congressional Record excerpts re ANCSA] | 1972 |
| 3/18 | Land 1-2 S. 35 federal land selection 1972 [Native corporations] | 1972 |
| 3/19 | Procedure for enrollment under Alaska Native claims settlement act (Federal Register) 1972-03-21 | 1972 |
| 3/20 | Withdrawal of portions of Alaska from public selection (Federal Register) 1972-03-21 | 1972 |
| 3/21 | Guidelines for Alaska regional corporations (Loesch) 1972-03-29 | 1972 |
| 3/22 | Implementation procedures for Alaska Native claims act, Stevens, 1972-05-09 | 1972 |
| 3/23 | Public law 92-203 rules and regulations | 1973 |
| 7/1 | [Committee prints 1970-03-18 and 1970-03-30 re Alaska Native Land Claims] | 1970 |
| 7/2 | [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner section: oil & resource development 1971-05-11] | 1971 |
| 7/3 | [Tundra Times re special land claims issue 1971-12-17] | 1971 |
| 7/4 | [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner issues: 1971-10-21; 1971-10-19; 1971-10-18; 1971-10-23] | 1971 |
| 7/5 | 3 Maps of Alaska re: Federal study areas; Native selection; and Alaska selections. | circa 1972 |
| OSF1/1 | Native protest map 1968-07-01 | 1968 |
| OSF1/2 | Department of Interior map Alaska system of rectangular surveys – villages listed in section 8(a)(1) of S. 1830 – May 1969 | 1969 |
| OSF1/3-4 | FJ Keenan state Department of Natural Resources maps 1971-04-29 | 1971 |
| OSF1/5-6 | [Alaska unofficial maps, exhibits 1 and 2] | circa 1971 |
| OSF1/7 | Alaska re land selections post-ANCSA | 1972 |
| Roll 1 | Department of Interior -Bureau of Land Management Alaska rectangular survey map – State selection data current to 1969-08-05 | 1969 |
| OSF1/9 | Department of Interior -Bureau of Land Management Alaska rectangular survey map – Land selections & existing general federal withdrawals, 1968-12-31 | 1969 |
| OSF1/10 | Native communities of Alaska, federal field committee for development planning of Alaska 1968-10-01 | 1968 |
| OSF1/11 | Alaska Native land claims based on house of representatives bill # 10367 [1971-08-27] | 1971 |
| OSF1/12 | Native protest map 1969-11-28 | 1969 |
| OSF1/13-17 | Five S. 1830 bill comparative committee prints – one with Ted Stevens handwritten notes | circa 1969 |
| OSF2 | Analysis of Alaska Native Claims Act – bill comparison | 1970 |
Series 2: Correspondence files; 1969-1972. 3.0 cubic feet.
This series contains correspondence sent and received by Stevens’ office relating to Native Land Claims. Folders also contain other materials that staffers filed alongside correspondence (e.g. related bills, research, newspaper articles, enclosures/attachments).
The individual folder contents’ original order has been retained. When possible original folder titles were retained, archival staff created folder titles are in brackets [ ]. Highly acidic papers (i.e. Congressional Record pages) have been interleaved with non-acidic papers and copies have been made of newspaper clippings for researcher access. Paper clips and binder clips have been removed. Some loose items were placed in folders during processing.
| Box/Folder | Description | Date |
| 4/1 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 letters answered by flexo Dec. 1969 | 1969 |
| 4/2 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 | 1969 |
| 4/3 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 [2] | 1969 |
| 4/4 | Land 1-2 land claims bill (S. 1830) [part one] | 1969 |
| 4/5 | Land 1-2 land claims bill (S. 1830) [part two] | 1969 |
| 4/6 | Land 1-2 land claims bill (S. 1830) [part three] | 1969 |
| 4/7 | Land 1-2 land claims bill (S. 1830) [part four] | 1969 |
| 4/8 | Land 1-2 Indian lands [mostly 1969] | 1969-1970 |
| 5/1 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 [1969-1970] | 1969-1970 |
| 5/2 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 1970 | 1970 |
| 5/3 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 letters sent to house members | 1970 |
| 5/4 | Land 1-2 S. 1830 land freeze extension public law 4582 | 1970 |
| 5/5 | Land 1-2 1971 Indian lands | 1971 |
| 5/6 | Land 1-2 S. 35 1971 land claims form letters | 1971 |
| 5/7 | Land 1-2 S. 35 1971 land claims form letters [2] | 1971 |
| 5/8 | Land 1-2 S. 35 Jan. thru March 1971 | 1971 |
| 6/1 | Land 1-2 S. 35 April, May 1971 | 1971 |
| 6/2 | Land 1-2 S. 35 June, July, Aug, Sept 1971 | 1971 |
| 6/3 | Land 1-2 S. 35 Oct, Nov, Dec 1971 | 1971 |
| 6/4 | Land 1-2 S. 35 1972 Jan thru April | 1972 |
| 6/5 | Land 1-2 S. 35 1972 May thru Dec | 1972 |
| 6/6 | Land 1-2 S. 35 1972 Sealaska regional corporation | 1972 |
| 6/7 | Land 1-2 S. 35 Native enrollment 1972 | 1972 |
Series 3: Photographs; 1969-1975. 0.2 cubic feet.
This series contains sixty-two printed photographs collected by Stevens’ office relating to Native Land Claims. Folder titles were all created by Ted Stevens Foundation archival staff. Photo descriptions and identifications have been provided by Ted Stevens Foundation photo curators.
No original order was maintained, photographs have been completely rearranged into chronological order from previous organization.
| Box/Folder | Item | Description | Date |
| 8/1 | 1-2 | Left to right: Alaska Governor Keith Miller; Interior Secretary Wally Hickel; and Senator Ted Stevens confer outside the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs hearing room. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 29 |
| 8/1 | 3 | Senators Gordon Allott; Len Jordan; and Ted Stevens listen to testimony during a hearing of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee on Alaska Native Land Claims. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 29 |
| 8/1 | 4 | Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs hearing with (left to right) Senators Henry “Scoop” Jackson; Gordon Allott; Len Jordan; Ted Stevens; and Henry Bellmon. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 29 |
| 8/1 | 5 | Left to right: Attorney Jay Greenfield; Senator Ted Stevens; and Alaska Federation of Natives President Emil Notti prepare a broadcast in a TV studio after an ANCSA hearing. (Greenfield was an associate of general counsel for Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Justice Arthur Goldberg). Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 30 |
| 8/1 | 6 | Left to right: Senator Ted Stevens; staffer Nancy Eklund; Vide Bartlett; Congressman Howard Pollock; and Senator Henry Bellmon visit at a reception following ANCSA hearings. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 30 |
| 8/1 | 7 | Left to right: Alaska Assistant Attorney General Bob Price; Senator Ted Stevens; Regional Solicitor Hugh Wade; and AFN President Emil Notti chat in a photo studio following an ANCSA hearing. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 April 30 |
| 8/1 | 8 | Left to right: Senator Mike Gravel; Alaska Commissioner of Economic Development Frank Murkowski; Field Commission Chairman Joe Fitzgerald; and Senator Ted Stevens confer at a Public Works committee hearing. Gravel was on the Committee, Stevens was not. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 May 14 |
| 8/1 | 9 | Left to right: Assistant Secretary of the Interior Harrison Loesch testifies before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs alongside Legislative Counsel Frank Bracken; Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickel; and Department of the Interior Solicitor Mitchell Melich. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 10 | Left to right: Assistant Secretary of the Interior Harrison Loesch listens as Legislative Counsel Frank Bracken addresses the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs alongside Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickel and Dept. of the Interior Solicitor Mitchell Melich. Behind them are John Borbridge; AFN General Counsel Justice Arthur Goldberg; and Alaska Assistant Attorney General Bob Hartig. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 11 | Left to right: Eben Hopson and Flore Lekanof listen as attorney Lester Miller and Senator Ted Stevens confer during an ANCSA hearing in the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 12 | Audience members including Alaska Asst. Attorney General Bob Hartig; Gov. Keith Miller; Attorney General G. Kent Edwards; Asst. Attorney General Bob Price; and Eben Hopson listen to testimony during ANCSA hearings in the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 13 | Members of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, including Senator Ted Stevens at right, listen to ANCSA testimony. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 14 | Left to right: Senators Clifford Hansen; Ted Stevens; and Henry Bellmon of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs listen to ANCSA testimony. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 15 | Senators Clifford Hansen, left, and Henry Bellmon, right, listen as Senator Ted Stevens speaks during ANCSA hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 16 | Senators Ted Stevens and Henry Bellmon confer during ANCSA hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 17 | Senator Gordon Allott rises to confer with Senator Ted Stevens during ANCSA hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Senator Clifford Hansen is at left, and Senator Henry Bellmon at right. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 18 | Alaska Native leaders and State of Alaska officials with Senator Ted Stevens in the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs during a break in hearings on the Alaska Native Claims Act (ANCSA) on August 7 & 8, 1969. Left to right: Alaska Attorney General G. Kent Edwards; John Borbridge; Al Ketzler; Cecil Barnes; Asst. Attorney General Bob Hartig; Senator Ted Stevens; William “Willie” Iġġiaġruk Hensley; and Alaska Governor Keith Miller. Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1969 August 7-8 |
| 8/1 | 19-20 | Left to right: Senators Clinton Anderson; Henry “Scoop” Jackson; Ted Stevens; and Gordon Allott participate in an ANCSA hearing in the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 12 |
| 8/1 | 21 | Under Secretary of Interior Russell E. Train, left, appears before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to report on “Interior’s manpower and funding requirements and capability to oversee oil resource development activities on public lands in the State of Alaska.” At right is likely Carl H. Schwartz, Jr., Director, Natural Resources Programs Division, Bureau of the Budget, who was also scheduled to appear. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1969 August 12 |
| 8/2 | 1 | Left to right: Ron Birch, Stevens’ Administrative Assistant; Senator Ted Stevens; AFN President Don Wright; and attorney Cliff Groh (who represented Native groups) share a chat. Photo by: U.S. Senate | circa 1970 |
| 8/2 | 2 | Senator Ted Stevens speaks at a lunch with Native leaders from around the state and others during hearings on Alaska Native Claims on April 9, 1970. Left to right: Don Watson; Jake Stalker; Tony Lewis; Senator Stevens; Fred Bismark; and Roy Ewan. Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1970 April 9 |
| 8/2 | 3-4 | Left to right: Ann Stevens; Don Watson; Alice Brown; Tony Lewis; Ron Birch; and Senator Ted Stevens visit during a lunch gathering in Washington, D.C. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1970 April 9 |
| 8/2 | 5 | Left to right: Byron Mallott; Senator Ted Stevens; Ron Birch; and Vide Bartlett visit during a lunch meeting in Washington D.C. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1970 April 9 |
| 8/2 | 6 | Left to right: Senator Ted Stevens; Ron Birch; and Vide Bartlett visit during a lunch meeting in Washington D.C. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1970 April 9 |
| 8/2 | 7 | Left to right: Morris Thompson (Tanana); Eben Hopson (Executive Director of AFN); Senator Ted Stevens; John Borbridge (AFN vice-president); and Flore Lekanof (Dept. of Interior) pose on the Capitol steps the day Land Claims bill S. 1835 passed the Senate. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1970 July 15 |
| 8/2 | 8 | Posing in the Senate dining room: Standing left to right: Joe Rothstein; John Havelock; Ron Birch; Don Wright; Adrian Parmeter; and William “Willie” Iġġiaġruk Hensley. Seated left to right: Senator Mike Gravel; Alaska Governor Bill Egan; Senator Ted Stevens; Representative-elect Nick Begich; and attorney Cliff Groh. Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1970 November 17 |
| 8/3 | 1 | Left to right: AFN President Don Wright; President Richard Nixon; Interior Secretary Rogers Morton; and Senator Ted Stevens discuss the Alaska Native Claims settlement. Photo by: Associated Press | 1971 April 06 |
| 8/3 | 2 | Senator Ted Stevens meets with AFN board members and others around the table in his office before the Senate vote next day on ANCSA passage. Seated left to right: George Miller; Joe Upicksoun; Nels Anderson; Al Ketzler; Frances Degnan; Don Wright; Senator Stevens; Adeline Katongan (TS staff); Phillip Guy; Hank Eaton; and Al Nakak. Standing left to right: John Katz (TS staff); Max Gruenberg (TS staff); Richard Frank; Brenda Itta; Fred Paul (behind Itta); Jim Wickwire; Charlie Edwardsen; Cliff Groh; Bob Willard; Iliodor Philemonof; and Frank Petersen (Rep. Begich staff). Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1971 October 29 |
| 8/3 | 3 | Senator Ted Stevens, right, and Senator Robert Stafford, left, show the Senate vote tally to Don and Carol Wright after the final Senate vote on ANCSA. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1971 November 1 |
| 8/3 | 4 | Clark MacGregor, Counsel to President Nixon for Congressional Relations, presents Senator Ted Stevens with the pen President Nixon used to sign ANCSA. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1971 December 22 |
| 8/3 | 5 | Drawings on an airline air sickness bag of the regions of ANCSA and settlement terms. Unknown creator. | circa 1971 |
| 8/4 | 1 | Incorporators of Calista visit Senator Ted Stevens in his office. Standing left to right: Fred Notti; Paul Dixon; and Russ Gallagher. Seated left to right: Senator Ted Stevens; William Tyson; Robert Nick; Elizabeth Beans; and Phillip Guy. Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1972 May 30 |
| 8/4 | 2-3 | Representatives of Alaska Native regional corporations met in Washington, D.C. at the Dept. of the Interior on June 1, 1972, for ceremonies to approve their creation after ANCSA. On hand were left to right: Senator Ted Stevens; Flore Lekanof, a Pribilof Islands Native and Director of Alaska Native Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); and Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Harrison Loesch. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 June 1 |
| 8/4 | 4-5 | Senator Ted Stevens, left, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Harrison Loesch, right, with two unidentified men on June 1, 1972, during a ceremony at Interior to recognize Native regional organizations after the passage of ANCSA. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 June 1 |
| 8/4 | 6-7 | The incorporators of Calista Alaska Native Regional Corporation met in Washington, D.C. at the Department of the Interior for ceremonies to approve the creation of the first three corporations on June 1, 1972. On hand were left to right: Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Harrison Loesch; Senator Ted Stevens; Elizabeth Beans; Paul Dixon; William Tyson; Fred Notti; Robert Nick; and Phillip Guy. Photo by: Department of Interior |
1972 June 1 |
| 8/4 | 8 | Senator Ted Stevens meets in his Anchorage office with members of the Bering Straits Native Association. Left to right: George Bell; Martin Olson; Fred Katchatag; Clark Gruening (attorney); Cecil Barnes; Senator Stevens; and John Hendrickson. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1972 June 21 |
| 8/4 | 9 | Senator Ted Stevens speaks alongside BIA Area Director Morris Thompson at the ceremony to award settlement checks under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 10 | BIA Area Director Morris Thompson speaks at the ceremony to award settlement checks under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; at the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Seated left to right: Don Wright (AFN); Senator Ted Stevens; Alaska Lt. Governor Red Boucher; Joe Upicksoun (Arctic Slope); Bob Willard (Sealaska); Robert Newlin (NANA); and Robert Marshall (Ahtna). Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 11 | Attending the ceremony to award settlement checks at the Anchorage Westward Hotel, are seated left to right: John Sackett (Doyon); Cecil Barnes (Chugach); Mike Swetzof (Aleut); George Miller (Cook Inlet); Jack Wick (Koniag); and Martin Olson (Bering Straits). Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 12 | Posing with envelopes at the ceremony to award settlement checks under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the Anchorage Westward Hotel, are left to right: Alaska Lt. Gov. Red Boucher; Mike Swetzof (Aleut League); Jack Wick (Koniag, Kodiak); Martin Olson (Bering Straits); George Miller (Cook Inlet Region); Joe Upicksoun (Arctic Slope); John Sackett (Doyon; Tanana Chiefs); Robert Marshall (Ahtna); Cecil Barnes (Chugach); Robert Newlin (NANA); Bob Willard (Sealaska); Morris Thompson (BIA area director); Senator Stevens; and Don Wright (AFN). Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 13 | Left to right: Christine Craig; Nicholas Jackson; Harry Johns, Sr.; and Robert Marshall, representing Ahtna Incorporated, arrive for the ceremony to award their settlement check under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 14 | Senator Ted Stevens congratulates Robert Marshall, representing Ahtna Inc., at the ceremony to award settlement checks under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 15 | Senator Ted Stevens congratulates Lilly McGarvey and Mike Swetzof of the Aleut Corporation in Anchorage on July 1, 1972, when the first settlement checks were distributed to the Native corporations after ANCSA was implemented. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 16 | Senator Ted Stevens congratulates Joe Upicksoun, left, of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation in Anchorage on July 1, 1972 when the first settlement checks were dispersed to the Native corporations after ANCSA was implemented. At right is Morris Thompson of the Dept. of Interior. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 17 | Senator Ted Stevens, left, congratulates Martin Olson, right, and Gary Longly, center right, of Bering Straits Corporation, in Anchorage on July 1, 1972, after the implementation of ANCSA and the distribution of the first settlement checks to Native Corporations. The man center left is unidentified. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 18-19 | Sen. Ted Stevens confers with Fred Notti (center- diagonal striped tie) from Calista Corp.; Ted Angasan of Bristol Bay (right); and one unidentified man in Anchorage on July 1, 1972 after the implementation of ANCSA and the first distribution of settlement checks to Native regional corporations. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 20 | Senator Ted Stevens congratulates Cecil Barnes of Chugach Corp. in Anchorage on July 1, 1972 after the implementation of ANCSA and the first distribution of settlement checks to Native regional corporations. Morris Thompson of the Dept. of Interior is at right. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 21 | On July 1, 1972, representatives of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., (CIRI) were presented with a settlement check for their regional corporation share after ANCSA was signed into law. Left to right R: unidentified; Roy Huhndorf; Don Wright; George Miller (with check); Senator Ted Stevens; Lt. Gov. Red Boucher; and Morris Thompson of BIA at the Anchorage Westward Hotel. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 22 | At the first disbursement of ANCSA checks to Native corporations in Anchorage, on July1, 1972, Senator Ted Stevens, left, congratulates John Sackett, center, and Tim Wallis, right, of Doyon. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 23 | Senator Ted Stevens greets Jack Wick, right, and Hank Eaton, center, of Koniag Inc., on July 1, 1972, in Anchorage, during the presentation of settlement checks after the implementation of ANCSA. Man center left is unidentified. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 24 | Robert Newlin of NANA Corp., center, is greeted by Senator Ted Stevens, left, and Morris Thompson of the BIA, Dept. of Interior, right, in Anchorage on July 1, 1972, during the disbursement of the first settlement checks to the Native corporations after ANCSA was implemented. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 25 | Senator Ted Stevens congratulates Bob Willard of Sealaska Corp. when the first settlement checks were dispersed to the Native corporations after ANCSA was implemented. At right is Morris Thompson of the BIA, Dept. of Interior. Photo by: Department of Interior | 1972 July 1 |
| 8/4 | 26 | Left to right: Oliver Leavitt and Mayor Jake Adams of Utqiaġvik visit Senator Ted Stevens in Washington D.C. on September 6, 1972, regarding ANCSA land selections for the Arctic Slope Region. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1972 September 6 |
| 8/5 | 1 | Members of a Juneau and Sitka Native delegation discuss land selection under ANCSA with Senator Ted Stevens in his DC office. Left to right: Robert Loescher; Murlin Everson; Joseph Wilson; John Eldermar; Robert Carroll; James Peterson; and Herman Kitka. In front, Ethel Staton shows Senator Stevens the land under consideration. Photo by: U.S. Senate |
1975 January 21 |
| 8/5 | 2 | Susan Ruddy (center) and Irene Rowan (right) of Anchorage firm Kish Tu Inc., discuss the second enrollment of Alaska Native people under ANCSA with Senator Ted Stevens in his D.C. office, on April 29, 1976. The Bureau of Indian Affairs contracted with Kish Tu Inc. to conduct an information campaign designed to reach all Alaska Natives worldwide. Photo by: U.S. Senate | 1976 April 29 |
[1] http://www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/ancsa_scrapbook/scr00002.htm
[2] Text taken from TSF’s blog post on ANCSA by Jolene Kennah from 2019-05-03: https://tedstevensfoundation.org/ts_and_ancsa/