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07/01/2009
This handbook is a comprehensive overview of the ISDEAA, covering Titles I, III, IV, V and VI, and includes applicable regulations and selected legislative history.
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Steve D. Osborne, Geoffrey D. Strommer, June 2005
Today Alaska Native tribes face one of their most difficult challenges since the days of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Ever since the United States Supreme Court ruled in Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, 522 U.S. 520 (1998), that ANCSA largely extinguished “Indian country” in Alaska, and thus the tribes’ territorial jurisdiction, the extent of Alaska tribal sovereignty and authority has been shrouded in uncertainty.
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S. Bobo Dean, 1971
The Indian tribe is a unique component in our federal system of government. Unlike all our other governmental institutions, the tribe is not a creature of the Constitution of the United States, nor of the federal government created by the Constitution, nor of the states which created the Constitution.
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