Tyonek, Alaska | village, Native American

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2000 population of the area was 193. The village was moved to its present location atop a bluff when the old site near Tyonek Timber flooded in the early 1930s.

In the 1960's, the tribe sold rights to drill for oil and gas beneath the reservation to a group of oil companies for $12.9 million. As a result, the reservation status was revoked with the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971. The tribe turned this windfall into a self-sustaining set of investments that led to national press coverage. (See links below)

Website: www.tyonek.com
Overview & history: www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS_2.cfm?Comm_Boro...
History: www.explorenorth.com/library/communities/alaska/bl-Tyon...
Great info & detailed history: www.alaskool.org/projects/ancsa/ARTICLES/knox1968/Tyone... and www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001972/Morgan/Morgan10/Morga... and "www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835861-1,00.h..."

Annotated aerial diagram: www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/profiles/profile-maps.htm

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyonek,_Alaska

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Coordinates: 61°3'48"N 151°11'58"W