What is the population of Venetie, Alaska?

Venetie has a population of approximately 76 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Venetie, Alaska located?

Venetie is located in Alaska, United States, at approximate coordinates 67.0207°, -146.3743°.

What is the median household income in Venetie?

The median household income in Venetie is approximately $67,500 based on the most recent open data.

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Venetie

Total population

Median home value

$50,000

Bachelor's+

Median income

$67,500

Venetie$68k

National$74k

Elevation182 m

Land area60.41 km²

Coordinates67.02°, -146.37°

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Area

60.41 km²

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Overview

Venetie, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska. As of the 2020 census, Venetie had a population of 205. It includes the Village of Venetie, a Gwichʼin tribal entity designated in the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

History & geography

History

Gwichʼin tribal leader John Fredson achieved federal recognition of the larger area of the Venetie Indian Reserve as Alaska Native territory in 1941, before Alaska was admitted to the union as a state. It was the largest reservation in Alaska, with approximately when established. Under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, most reservations in Alaska were dissolved and the federal government made payments to tribes for considerable territory, designating areas as tribal lands. The Gwichʼin tribal lands were reduced. The people continued to adapt. In the early 1980s a "unified Venetie/Arctic village tribal government formally codified traditional principles of caribou management into tribal law," an example of Alaska Native subsistence practices. Anthropologist Steve J. Langdon lauded this action as a way of combining traditional spirituality with secular law demonstrating "the resiliency of the traditional cosmology and behavior and its ability to be flexibly incorporated into contemporary institutions and practice." A majority of the residents approved limits on the harvest of the Porcupine caribou herd. In 1987 the Gwichʼin tribal council tried to tax a non-native contractor building a school here, saying the council had the right as the government of tribal land. The case went to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, which ruled in 1996 "that the natives had the right to tax businesses on their land, about the size of Delaware, because it qualified as Indian Country, much like the reservations in the lower 48 states." The state of Alaska appealed that decision, concerned that up to 44 million acres of tribal lands in Alaska might be classified as Indian Country and thus subject to local tribal taxation (in the Lower…

Geography

Venetie is located at (67.016111, -146.421111) on the Chandalar River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land.

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