"The directive does not make tribes co-managers, which is a more formal relationship with a specific legal meaning. Rather, it requires federal managers to consult with tribes and figure out new ways to make Native people partners in the management and maintenance of federal lands."

the question remains: by not implementing a co-managed system (for land and natural resource management) with legal empowerment, are the feds holding up their end of the bargain, as it relates to the federal trust responsibility they have to ak natives?  where's the accountability, in the absence of a true co-managed system?