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Lisa Murkowski: “The question some have asked me is, well, if Sealaska has waited for 38 years to get their final conveyance and if in…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2009
The question some have asked me is, well, if Sealaska has waited for 38 years to get their final conveyance and if in fact there is this process under way through the Tongass Futures Roundtable, what is another few years of waiting?
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Murkowski questions the need for further delays in Sealaska's land claims.

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