BIA extends comment period for Central Council trust application

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has extended the public comment period over Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal organization’s effort to put its downtown offices and surrounding parking lots into trust.
The Juneau-based Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently learned that a long-running effort to put seven parcels into a federal trust was nearly complete.
The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is the largest tribal organization in So