Alaska's Recognition of Tribes: Alaska House Bill 123 and Tribal Trust Lands

• Main Author: Jacobsen, Gloria R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Duke University School of Law 2024
• Subjects: Law; Indian; Metlakatla; Alaska law review; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/alr/vol40/iss3/4; https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/context/alr/article/1655/viewcontent/prac1.pdf

For decades, the United States Department of the Interior's land acquisition regulations included an "Alaska Exception" that barred acquisition of land into trust in Alaska apart from those acquisitions made for the Metlakatla Indian Community. Although the "Alaska Exception"...