Lisa Murkowski actually said...

It is long past time that Sealaska shareholders get the lands they were promised nearly 40 years ago.

The entire issue stems from legislation that Congress approved four decades ago and the many intervening events in the region.

Unless this bill passes we do have, again, some very dire economic situations within the panhandle region.

It was unfair to Southeast natives who lived in a region the size of the State of Indiana, to have had their lands taken away from them.