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    Tribal recognition bill is heard before House committee

    Thursday, February 13th, 2020 8:21am

    House Staffer Ken Truitt and Rep. Chuck Kopp testify before the committee.

    Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - House Bill 221, legislation designed to deliver state recognition of federally recognized tribes, was heard in the House Tribal Affairs Special Committee on Thursday.

    Rep. Chuck Kopp of Anchorage is the prime sponsor of the bill.

    "House Bill 221 proposes to officially recognize the tribes in this state that the federal government formally recognizes," Kopp said in his sponsor statement. "The federal government has a special and unique relationship with tribes that through this bill the state would acknowledge. Alaska obtained statehood during the era of federal Indian policy where the federal government sought to terminate its trust relationship with its tribal people and force them to abandon their tribal identity, cultures, languages, and ways of life."

    Kopp added that, while the federal government embraced needed change and went on to pass the Self Determination and Education Assistance Act in 1975, Alaska’s state constitution, and state policy, are still relics of the painful past. 

    "We have clung to this policy to our collective peril as all the peoples of this state have suffered because it," Kopp said. "Many of the struggles facing Alaska today, from the public safety crisis, suicide, the epidemic of sexual assault and domestic violence have only been reinforced by the state’s policy of telling its tribal peoples that their form of government has no existence, no standing, and no recognition. It is time to stop this policy and break from the past and usher in a new era that seeks to reconcile all the state’s peoples one to another."

    Rep. Kopp said House Bill 221 proposes a first step, by making it the formal state policy that the state’s indigenous peoples have their own governments and that the government of the state of Alaska will no longer deny their existence. 

    "This provides for not only formal recognition in our statutes, but a roadmap for healing, wholeness, and restoration of all Alaska’s people and communities," Kopp said.

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