text: Your difficulty is that you're correct, ANCSA is a disaster ... but pre ANCSA was a disaster ... before statehood was a disaster ... before "Seward's Folly" was a disaster.  We're left with trying to salvage something out of practically nothing.  Like Tic-Tac-Toe, the only winning move is to not play.  Rock and a hard spot! ... Can't win for losing! ...  Life is not fair!  But at least someone, you and many others, are looking at the situation, and trying to make things better.  The disagreements are in causation and cure, but the hearts are in the right place.