GALC Mission Statement (back to main page)
Pursuant to Guam Public Law 25-45, the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission is created; defines the Commission as “Land Claims Facilitator”; mandates the establishment of a “Land Bank”; and compels “just compensation” as return of ancestral land(s) and/or monetary compensation, by:
- facilitating the return of excessed U.S. federal and Government of Guam lands to their original owners;
- pursuing and advocating for the return of excess U.S. federal and Government of Guam lands to their original owners;
- maintaining a “Land Bank (Trust)” for those dispossessed original landowners who will never realize the return of their ancestral lands;
and further, pursuant to Guam Public Law 25-178:
that “…Ancestral land claims shall be expedited and claims processing shall be
considered an urgency measure by all departments, agencies and
instrumentalities of the government of Guam whose cooperation in
facilitating meritorious claims is considered required.”