Feds Consider Taking Alaska Tribal Land into Trust
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The move could lead to pockets of “Indian country,” where tribal courts and governments would have authority to create their own laws and justice systems, the Anchorage Daily News reported (https://is.gd/bUHu9y).
Currently, the only Indian country community with a reservation in the state is Metlakatla, in southeast Alaska.
The state opposes the move.
A judge in Washington, D.C., last year agreed with Alaska Native tribes, supported by nonprofit law firms, which sued in federal court saying the Interior Department should have been taking land into trust years ago.
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