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39 Alaska L. Rev. i (2022)

handle is hein.journals/allr39 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTE FROM THE EDITOR The Alaska Law Review is pleased to publish our June 2022 issue, the first in our thirty-ninth volume. This issue features two practitioner articles, three student notes, and a student case comment. These pieces cover a wide range of important legal topics impacting Alaskan law. Our first article is titled Strangers in Their Own Land: A Survey of the Status of the Alaska Native People from the Russian Occupation Through the Turn of the Twentieth Century. In this historical review, Jon W. Katchen, Partner at Holland & Hart, and Nicholas Ostrovsky, General Counsel of Ahtna, Inc., examine the legal status of Alaska Natives and shed light on the recent debate, resolved last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, about whether Alaska Native Corporations are considered Indian tribes for the purpose of a congressional COVID-19 relief package. The authors survey the unique history of the treatment of Alaska Natives from the mid-1700s through the early twentieth century. In our next article, ANSCA Corporation Proxy Wars, Aaron M. Schutt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Doyon, Ltd., reviews the legal history of corporate proxy wars and related election issues that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) corporations and candidates for their boards of directors have waged over the past nearly fifty years. Mr. Schutt details the important implications these cases have had for ANCSA corporations, including the financial burdens associated with litigation and their effect on the leadership of those corporations. Our first student note, Alaska's Lengthy Sentences Are Not the Answer to Sex Offenses, by Margot Graham, argues that the Alaska legislature and the Alaska courts have created an ineffective sentencing scheme that results in excessively long prison sentences for Alaskans convicted of sex offenses. Ms. Graham notes that rationales behind this sentencing scheme were based in unfounded and inaccurate assumptions about those who commit sex offenses, and that the lengthy sentences are not achieving the goal of public safety. This note proposes three solutions to this problematic scheme that could better protect Alaskan communities, help rehabilitate those who commit sex offenses, and save taxpayer dollars. Our second student note, It Takes a Village: Repurposing Takings Doctrine to Address Melting Permafrost in Alaska Native Towns, written by incoming Editor-in-Chief Sasha Kahn, proposes a novel legal solution to an emergency facing many Alaska Native villages today. Due to climate change, Alaska Native villages built upon permafrost are beginning to sink and collapse. Most of these villages will have to physically move, as

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