Alaska native communities are just recently reasserting themselves as  local governing bodies - with assistance from federal historical. treaties, federal court decisions and congressional negotiations .  I'll tell you what – why don't you try living in a community of 100 to 400 people 12 months a year with no roads in or out; one store and confining weather  even if you were wanting to leave  - then tell me that peer pressure doesn't work. It's only when you take away all the power and authority from village leadership villages start falling apart. This is a great way to start letting villages reassert themselves.