Legislature(1999 - 2000)
03/29/2000 03:15 PM Senate RES
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SJR 31-SUBSISTENCE FOR URBAN AK NATIVES
CHAIRMAN HALFORD announced SJR 31 to be up for consideration.
SENATOR WARD, sponsor, explained that in 1970, Shim Pete (80 years
old) signed up for land claims in Red Shirt Lake, what is now
considered urban Alaska. Senator Ward told him they were going to
get land, money, and subsistence rights protected. Apparently, he
misunderstood. Congress meant that subsistence would be for those
people who lived in the right zip code and not for the other
people. He is asking the Alaska Legislature to ask Congress to
clarify whether it truly intended to deny Alaska natives residing
in urban areas of Alaska the opportunity to engage in subsistence
activities on the same basis as rural Alaskan residents when it
passed the land bill.
CHAIRMAN HALFORD noted that there wasn't a quorum and he would hold
the bill.
SJR 31-SUBSISTENCE FOR URBAN AK NATIVES
CHAIRMAN HALFORD announced SJR 31 to be up for consideration.
SENATOR TAYLOR moved to pass SJR 31 from committee with individual
recommendations. There were no objections and it was so ordered.
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