Jaeleen Kookesh
308:31 - 309:13
“they adopted instead a rural priority. And this was a priority for subsistence uses on federal lands, and it was a priority for customary and traditional uses by rural Alaska residents of wild and renewable resources.”
- Speaker
- Jaeleen Kookesh
- Timestamp
- 308:31 – 309:13
- Transcript
- Facebook video 1118570150823121
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
They did recognize that it was important for natives and non-natives to practice this way of life in rural Alaska, so they adopted instead a rural priority. And this was a priority for subsistence uses on federal lands, and it was a priority for customary and traditional uses by rural Alaska residents of wild and renewable resources. And so that is what was adopted in ANILCA. And the state could have managed subsistence on federal lands if they could implement this rural preference throughout Alaska. So in 1982, the state did assume management responsibility on federal lands in ANILCA.
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