State officials on Tuesday filed a motion seeking summary judgment against a petition approved by Interior Department officials to take into trust lands in downtown Juneau to create Indian Country.  Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor said the state is challenging the action approved by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland on grounds that Newland had, on his own, decided to alter the balance of territorial jurisdiction in Alaska without clear authority from Congress.  Late last year the Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that it would accept a vacant property in Juneau into trust for the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

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