No surprise here! With the status of the Alaska budget, they finally understood that if tribes took over many of the functions that should have been theirs to begin with, that it was a "win, win" for the State as a way to reduce budgets, and a way for the tribes to regain their inherent right of governance . Tribes in the lower 48 have been doingbthis for years. While it will take some time as the tribes come up to speed on this, eventually the State will save money in the areas of Child Protection, prosecutionof misdemeanors, and certain other functions now covered by the state.
This is NOT taking anything away from non-Natives, nor will if affect them with minor exceptions under the federal laws on VAWA. No threats
So everyone should be happy now.........crimes committed in villages under tribal governments can prosecute low level crimes in tribal courts if the offender agrees to it and on matters of child protection tribes can proceed with what many of them have already been doing.