Use It or Lose It

What is the difference between traditional and IRA and who has more power? What I'm understanding right now is both like traditional and IRA have the same power except as for IRA, the IRA has more power, so therefore that traditional and consulment should accept or adopt the IRA. I would like to make it stab at this. Basically, as I stated in the secretary of the Interior, adopts an IRA constitution and the bylaws, it establishes a government constitution between the federal government and the Alaska Native village. And this is a recognized form.

This relationship between two governments in using the IRA act as a vehicle and in having the secretary approve these IRA constitutions, it forces a state of Alaska to deal with those Native governments that have been recognized by the federal government, it forces a state to also recognize these entities as separate viable governments because of the fact that through the approval of the constitution and bylaws, the federal government recognizes this government to government relationship and it has very high fiduciary standards in terms of its trust, responsibility to make sure that these governments, the Native governments

that are created are intact, that they have these suffering powers separate and apart from the state of Alaska itself. I'm not saying that the traditional consulment does not, the traditional consulment, it is not a topic of the IRA, the IRA is a formal recognition of the government's government status. Jim, I believe the mean issue really, the government we have was not given to us from the outside government, like the federal government, it was inherent from our ancestors and therefore you know, it's not a matter of who is more powerful, it's just an inherent question for people to govern themselves, you know, I think that needs to be clarified,

you know, right at this point because even though we are traditional governments, we have an inherent right of sovereignty and it's just the IRA simply reaffirming, you know, as small as we are firming or recommend ourselves, and it's reserved under federal statute. Then IRA's have been, have been around here before 19, I think, you know, people have a state and all of us there was a sovereignty, the inherent whatever, the sovereignty on a highest power that the IRA consuls have to the federal government, in other words, we can, if we need something, we don't have to go through the state or fall, through the high and higher units of the government, we can directly go to Washington, D.C. and perhaps

try to get whatever we need. Now, the state realized that the lady groups, realize that this lady by race can go directly to Washington, D.C. and try to get the things that they want. The state realized that, oh, well, they have been struggling with powers, you know. Then right now, the states for this, they said, well, we didn't want to be the only ones that have a sovereignty power. We want to be able to deal directly with Washington, D.C. and not the natives, so forth etc. and so, the state right now, the unreview to take that power away, so that's the sovereignty power. So that the state of Washington would be the suddenly, suddenly, Kennedy, with that radical power, so you know, there's an external force that are now working against the

irony. You would mention that the by race do have the same powers, I think, with the state. They have equal powers, in case sometimes more. Thanks for turning to the federal government. When we talk about the IRA, we're specifically talking about that kind of a power, which is the highest power, and once we lose that thoroughly thing, that they don't be able to our race in state of law, you won't have the rights anymore. You won't have to, you won't, you won't be able to question, and then this is such as subsistence or anything that has to do with the natives' native words. I would like to ask a question, some of that might take four or five villages in our first class cities.

Would they have the power to override the Irish Council? I would like to talk about our government, which might be the city of Bethel, the city of the country of the country of British people, and maybe you want to try over who would have the power. It's, Mr. Chairman, it's up to the village. It's up to you. And how are you on it? It's up to you if you want to stay low. I think we're going to stay higher in your office, and if you are always at this protective at atmosphere, or you are for this government right here, this government can protect all the natives in Bethel, against state or the federal government. This government will speak on behalf of any native that is put in jail for subsistence

hunting, or prevent it from subsistence hunting wherever it is. Or this government can help BSC protect its land if it wants to it's up to you if you want to know that those powers are, and I think it's just a matter of practicing the rights, not a matter of the powers being given, it's a matter of practicing, and it depends on who can who, which is harder than I was, who, where is basically a federal recognition and a federal relationship with this tribal government as if it were a nation in the nation that cannot be eroded by municipal state of the world's government limits. Right now, the state of Alaska is trying to heavy off at the past, and they're getting

there to hold it. If they're today or not, the state is trying to prevent formation of high-array councils now. I think that's an extremely important thing. State is trying to be the government. It's always trying to be more common power than you would. It's always that constant bad. Right now, that will have a feeling we begin to scratch anything about by-array. The other villages that have by-array status already don't have to begin with running, so what kind of life do we have, and so forth. They are said, you know. It looks like it's a matter of practicing those rights.