State holds up effort to expand Indian Country in Alaska

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State holds up effort to expand Indian Country in Alaska
  
The Interior Department is poised to expand Indian Country in Alaska, but the new Walker administration wants time to assess the potential impacts and possibly pursue a congressional compromise in a long-running battle affecting tribal and state sovereignty.  

http://www.adn.com/article/20150205/state-holds-effort-expand-indian-country-alaska

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After all, maybe Natives might not want oil money moving in. That would hurt AK's damned oil-based economy...

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