The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that for-profit Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) are Indian tribes and as such as entitled to seek pandemic-related financial relief set aside for Indian tribes in last year’s CARES Act. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the court’s opinion in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, court file 20-543, and the related case, Alaska Native Village Corporation Association Inc. v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, court file 20-544, which was released June 25. Janet Yellen is the secretary of the Department of the Treasury. ANCs are big business in Alaska, with a combined net revenue of $9.1 billion in fiscal 2017, according to a report by the Resource Development Council for Alaska Inc. They are involved in oil and natural gas, mining, military contracting, real estate, construction, communications and media, engineering, plastics, timber, and aerospace manufacturing, among other things, according to a report by the …