Arthur Lazarus, Jr. (born August 30, 1926) is a retired attorney primarily known for his work with American Indian tribes and Alaska Native corporations.

Under Pentagon rules, responsibility for overseeing the contract rests with the Alaska native corporation and the Pentagon has no legal relationship with either Vance or Wackenhut.

Federal rules require that 51 percent of the work be done by the Alaska native corporation.

As provided under ANCSA, subsurface estate in UIC lands is owned by the Alaska Native regional corporation for the region, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.

The settlement extinguished Alaska Native claims to the land by transferring titles to twelve Alaska Native regional corporations and over 200 local village corporations.

Thus these Alaska Native corporations have made money, and so have the buyers.

Synteras is a participant in the Small Business Association's 8(a) program and, through the NANA affiliation, an Alaska Native corporation (ANC).

The majority of the island is a part of Chugach National Forest; Alaska native corporations Chugach Alaska Corporation and Chenega Corporation are the two other major landowners.

Thirteen major Alaska Native corporations and dozens of smaller ones were created to manage the cash payment and land grants distributed by the federal government under the act.

Unlike the other 12 Alaska Native regional corporations, The 13th Regional Corporation and its shareholders received only monetary compensation, with no land conveyance, in settlement of aboriginal land claims.