Craig Tribal Association’s land-into-trust application approved

The Department of the Interior announced approval of Craig Tribal Association’s land-into-trust application on January 13.  This is the first application from Alaska to be approved since the Interior Department issued a revised rule in 2014 expelling the “Alaska exception.”
Craig Tribal Association’s application places a 1.08-acre parcel into federal Indian trust status. Tribal president Clinton Cook Sr. says the association applied for the status change to protect C