Venetie (/ˈviːnɪtaɪ/ VEEN-ih-ty;[2] Vįįhtąįį[3] in Gwich’in), is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.

It includes the Village of Venetie, a Gwich'in tribal entity designated in the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

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.

(In the Lower 48, by comparison, about 56 million acres are designated as federally recognized, sovereign Indian reservation lands.

)[2] In 1998, the case was heard by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government.

It determined that the tribal council did not have taxing authority on its land, as the terms of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act had done away with almost all reservations in the state.

But, under the terms of the act, the tribal lands do not have the same sovereign status as federally recognized Indian reservations in the Lower 48.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 20.8 square miles (54 km2), all of it land.