Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act to let Alaska Natives take marine mammals for handicraft making and sale, allow those handicrafts to be sold across state lines, and bar states from banning their sale.

• Defines an authentic Alaska Native handicraft as one made wholly or in significant part from natural materials, without pantographs or mass-copying devices, by an Alaska Native who lives in Alaska on the North Pacific or Arctic coast.
• Exempts Alaska Native taking of marine mammals for subsistence or for making and selling authentic handicrafts from the Act's provisions, as long as the taking is not wasteful.
• Allows items presented as authentic handicrafts to be sold in interstate commerce, and allows edible portions of marine mammals taken for handicrafts to be sold for native consumption or in Alaska native villages and towns.
• Prohibits states from banning the sale, transfer, or possession of marine mammal ivory, bone, or baleen used in authentic handicrafts by Alaska Natives.
• Lets the Secretary restrict taking of depleted stocks after notice and hearing, and requires written findings supported by substantial evidence, including Indigenous knowledge, when an Alaska Native organization brings an action.
• States that nothing in the section affects the rights of Indian Tribes or undermines government-to-government consultation.

• Natural Resources Committee (House)
• Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee

Native Americans