Thank you Mr. Peterson! We are long overdue for the State to stop spending vast amounts of money fighting its own citizens. It is time that we request a tally of how much of our money is being spent. Your figure for Hogan v Kaltag may be low. I think the $100,000 was to prepare the petition for cert. The lower court cases in which the State lost would also have been costly. No telling how much was spent on the Katie John cases over a twenty year span and now they are appealing the Akiachak case. Working with tribes instead of against them is the best path forward. Other states have long since realized this; we are still in the dark ages here and need to modernize our thinking.