The Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government (previously, ''Native Village of Barrow'') ( Iñupiaq: ''Utqiaġviŋmiut Iñupiat Kavamaat'') is a

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federally recognized

Alaska Native Alaska Natives (also known as Native Alaskans, Alaskan Indians, or Indigenous Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of Alaska that encompass a diverse arena of cultural and linguistic groups, including the I ...

Iñupiat The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq), also known as Alaskan Inuit, are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States borde ...

tribal entity, as listed by the

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circa 2003. Located in

Utqiaġvik, Alaska Utqiagvik ( ; , ), formerly known as Barrow ( ), is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located north of the Arctic Circle, it is one of the northernmost cities and towns in the world and th ...

, it is part of the North Slope Borough. The constitution and by-laws of the native village were established in 1940 under the

Indian Reorganization Act The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the "Indian ...

(IRA) of 1934. An IRA

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was also created. This corporation is not to be confused with the for-profit village corporation in Barrow, Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC), created under the

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by U.S. President, President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting what is still the largest land claims settlement in United States history. ANCSA was intended to reso ...

of 1971.

External links

The corporate charter from 1940

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation home

A list of all of the Native Villages that are officially recognized
Inupiat tribes North Slope Borough, Alaska {{NorthSlopeAK-geo-stub