A small-dollar collections suit has made a Lutak Road property one front in an unresolved, statewide conflict over land sovereignty. And despite losing the lawsuit — in which a tribal government defendant argued the borough’s tax policy ran afoul of federal law — the borough says its stance on the issue remains unchanged.
Last September, the Haines Borough filed suit against the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska seeking unpaid sales…