page_title: NANA Regional Corporation
section_title: Lands
hierarchical_section_title: NANA Regional Corporation / Lands
caption_attribution_description: == English: Map of Alaska NANA Region Map
context_page_description: NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. NANA was incorporated in Alaska on June 7, 1972. NANA is a for-profit corporation with a land base in the Kotzebue area in northwest Alaska. Its corporate office is in Kotzebue, Alaska. NANA's Alaska Native shareholders are of Inupiat descent.
  The Northwest Arctic Native Association was NANA's predecessor, and played a key role in the effort to resolve Alaska Native land claims that led to passage of ANCSA. However, NANA is not an acronym today.
context_section_description: Until 1971, the issue of land ownership in Alaska was divisive. Oil was discovered on Alaska's North Slope and Alaska Native peoples, including the Iñupiat of northwest Alaska, worried about maintaining rights to traditional lands and the ability to protect their valuable subsistence resources. The passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (or ANCSA) helped resolve many of the issues surrounding land rights.
  ANCSA created 12 regional corporations in Alaska (a 13th was added later), and the state and Alaska Native groups worked together to select lands for each region. Each of these regions formed a for-profit corporation to manage these land rights.
  Today, NANA owns 2,280,000 acres (9,200 km²), or approximately 9.4 percent of the 24,300,000 acres (98,000 km²) that comprise the NANA region. NANA lands encompass an area that is roughly the size of Indiana.
  In 1972, a merger of the area’s regional corporation and ten of the eleven village corporations resulted in NANA’s ownership of both the surface and subsurface acreage, with the exception of the surface acreage Kikiktagruk Iñupiat Corporation (KIC) retained.
  The land selection and conveyance process is now largely completed, but the work of our Lands Department continues to ensure that our rights are never again in question.
  NANA-owned lands are managed by the NANA Lands and Regional Affairs Department.
caption: Map showing NANA's region, with an inset showing the region in relation to Alaska as a whole.  Adjacent regions are those of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (to the north), Bering Straits Native Corporation (to the south) and Doyon, Limited (to the east).
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