Alaska native communities depend on the area for subsistence hunting and fishing.
From the cnn.com
Alaska native corporations were created in 1971 to settle land claims and help improve life for tens of thousands of impoverished native people.
From the delawareonline.com
Alaska native corporations have long struggled to fulfill their mandate to improve life for native shareholders, who are among the poorest people in the United States.
From the washingtonpost.com
Alaska Natives were upset that the pipeline would cross the land traditionally claimed by a variety of native groups, but no economic benefits would accrue to them directly.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Alaska-the northernmost state in the Union-is a vast land of few people, many of them native, and of great stretches of wilderness, protected in national parks and wildlife refuges.