Legal Opinion
Kenaitze Indian Tribe v. State of Alaska
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 24, 1988No. 87-4110PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge *:
We travel to the northern reaches of our circuit to resolve a dispute implicating two recurring Alaskan motifs: on the one hand, the clash between traditional and modern ways of life; on the other, fish. The Ke-naitze Indian Tribe claims that the state of Alaska is attempting to evade federal legislation creating a priority for subsistence fishing by residents of rural areas. The controversy turns on the meaning of the word “rural” as used in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANIL-CA), Pub.L. No. 96-487, 94 Stat. 2371 (1980) (codified as amended in…
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