¿ì²¥app Corporation’s land entitlement comprises 6.5 million acres in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) River Delta and the Kuskokwim Mountains. Most of this land is split estate where the village corporation owns the surface estate and ¿ì²¥app owns the subsurface. The region’s 56 villages selected the bulk of these lands near their villages based primarily on subsistence needs.
¿ì²¥app’s entitlement also includes 264,000 acres of fee estate lands where ¿ì²¥app owns both surface and subsurface rights. Much of the fee estate entitlement is prospective for precious metal mineral resources.
¿ì²¥app Region
The region ¿ì²¥app Corporation serves is a vast and beautiful corner of the world. Tucked between two of Southwest Alaska’s mightiest rivers – the Yukon and the Kuskokwim – this unique isolated area is the traditional home of Indigenous Yup’ik, Cup’ik and Athabascan people, our Shareholders.
Size – Massive and Remote
- 58,000 square miles – about the size of New York State
- About 10 percent of Alaska’s entire land area
- Second largest ANCSA region in land size
- No roads outside of the Region
- No rail service
- Land entitlement to ¿ì²¥app is only 6.5 million acres – less than 20 percent of the land area
- Approximately 75 percent of the land within the Region is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Most remaining lands are owned by federal and state governments, with a very small amount privately owned
Native Allotments
Authority for Native allotments is designated to the organization affiliated with the tribal enrollment of the allotted individuals. ¿ì²¥app is not responsible for the transfer of Native allotments owned by individuals in the ¿ì²¥app Region.