Kodiak residents can testify to the Federal Subsistence Board on Kodiak’s non-rural versus rural status during a series of meetings.

Indigenous peoples of Kodiak and surrounding areas should show up and let the Subsistence Board know that lands, waters and resources still belong to them, not the federal government. 

The federal law, Public Law 85-503 Act of July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339), as amended, Section 4:  As a compact with the United States said state and its people do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to any lands or other property not granted or confirmed to the state or its political subdivision by or under the authority of this act, the right or title to which is held by the United States or is subject to disposition by the United States, and any lands or other property including fishing rights, the right to title to which may be held by any Indians, Eskimos, or Aleuts in part. 

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was supposed to improve on what us indigenous people already had — not take away, which is the main reason the State of Alaska filed Original Action 128 in the Supreme Court of the United States. The State of Alaska, the federal government and the Federal Subsistence Board want title to the soil, but the title remains with the indigenous peoples of Alaska and no one else.