{"id":10756,"date":"2017-01-16T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/craig-tribe-gets-alaskas-first-federal-land-trust\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:00:45","slug":"craig-tribe-gets-alaskas-first-federal-land-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/craig-tribe-gets-alaskas-first-federal-land-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig tribe gets Alaska&#8217;s first federal land trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014<\/strong> About an acre owned by the Craig Tribal Association will be the first Alaska Native land to go into trust with the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, reported the Ketchikan Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a historic day for the Craig Tribal Association and for all tribes in Alaska,\u201d said Clinton Cook Sr., president of the Craig Tribal Association. \u201cIt\u2019s a biggie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A July court decision ended a long-standing practice barring Alaska Native land from going into trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe elimination of the \u2018Alaska exception\u2019 to the Bureau of Indian Affairs\u2019 land-into-trust regulations has rectified an error that has for far too long treated Alaska tribes differently in the restoration of tribal homelands,\u201d said Bureau of Indian Affairs Director Weldon Loudermilk, according to an Interior department news release.<\/p>\n<p>Land trusts put tribes in an ownership partnership with the federal government. Some perks include the ability to tap into more federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Tribal Association President Clinton Cook Sr. said Friday that it was a historic moment for all Alaska tribes.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Lawrence Roberts said in a news release Friday that it was a long journey to get to this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 About an acre owned by the Craig Tribal Association will be the first Alaska Native land to go into trust with the federal government. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, reported the Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a historic day for the Craig Tribal Association and for all tribes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}