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alaska_native_regional_corporations: Download an Alaska Native Regional Corporation shapefile into R.

Description

From the US Census Bureau: "ANRCs are corporations created according to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. They are organized under the laws of the State of Alaska as "Regional Corporations," to conduct both the for-profit and non-profit affairs of Alaska Natives within defined regions of Alaska." For more information, please see the Census technical documentation at the link provided.

Usage

alaska_native_regional_corporations(cb = FALSE, year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

cb

If cb is set to TRUE, download a generalized (1:500k) file. Defaults to FALSE (the most detailed TIGER/Line file)

year

the data year (defaults to 2020).

...

arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported. Options include class, which can be set to "sf" (the default) or "sp" to request sf or sp class objects, and refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE).

See Also

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch5GARM.pdf

Other native/tribal geometries functions: native_areas(), tribal_block_groups(), tribal_census_tracts(), tribal_subdivisions_national()