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Resolution 2018-10: Alaskan Tribal Communities Deserve Public Safety, Justice and Adequate Services

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Tanana Chiefs Conference advocates for safe communities across Alaska. Rural villages have often been left out of adequate law enforcement, judicial resources, and subsequent services for decades. With the state fiscal crisis, recently there has been a reduction in rural troopers, village public safety officers, prosecutors and state magistrates as well as funding to provide adequate health and mental health …

Resolution 2018-09: Protection of the Indian Child Welfare Act and Implementing Regulations

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was enacted in 1978 in response to a crisis affecting American Indian and Alaska Native children, families, and tribes. Studies revealed that large numbers of Native children were being separated from their parents, extended families, and communities by state child welfare and private adoption agencies. In fact, research found that 25%–35% of all Native …

Resolution 2018-08: Ensure ADF&G Advisory Committees Adequately Meet – Their Legal Requirements, Local Hunting and Fishing Needs; and ADF&G Tribal Consultation Policy

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, tribal stewardship of fish and wildlife is essential to all Tribal communities in Alaska for food security, community well-being, and cultural identity; and WHEREAS, Lower Yukon Subregion (GASH) villages, Grayling, Holy Cross, Anvik and Shageluk are federally-recognized Tribal Governments located in Alaska Game Management Unit 21E; and WHEREAS, the GASH Tribes are part of the GASH Advisory Committee (GASH AC), the local …

Resolution 2018-06: Oppose the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Project / Road

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is the regional tribal non-profit organization for the interior region, and represents 37 are federally recognized tribes and five Alaska Native associations, and as such, serves more than 13,000 Alaska Natives across 235,000 square miles; and WHEREAS, the duty of Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC), a tribally driven entity, is to provide human and social services to tribal …

Resolution 2018-05: To Increase Client Appointments with Physicians at Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center (CAIHC)

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center (CAIHC) patient handbook states: Tanana Chiefs Conference Health Services seeks to deliver health care that is grounded in the diverse cultures and values of each community we serve. We will provide accessible patient-centered systems that promote safe, timely, effective, efficient and equitable care that is sustainable; and WHEREAS, the rural recipients of the CAIHC do not …

Resolution 2018-04: Request for Assistance in Purchasing Native Land Allotments for Sale

June 2, 2025February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Congress Enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to recognize and settle and settle the aboriginal claims of Alaska Natives to their traditional homelands by establishing Alaska Native Corporations to receive and manage settlement lands and funds; and WHEREAS, the future success of hunting and fishing activities by tribal members is dependent on the use of traditional lands; and WHEREAS, dozens …

Resolution 2018-03: Feasibility Study For Lower Yukon Health Care

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Lower Yukon Subregion (GASH) villages, Grayling, Holy Cross, Anvik, and Shageluk receive health care services from the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC); and WHEREAS, the GASH villages have discussed their health care options: to keep their health care services with YKHC, to switch services to Southcentral Foundation, or to create their own regional super clinic; and WHEREAS, the GASH villages are seeking …

Resolution 2018-01: Removal of “Alaska NAHASDA Rider” From Future Appropriations Bill

February 6, 2020

WHEREAS, Congress enacted the Native American Housing and Self- Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) to allocate funding to each federally recognized Tribe for housing in furtherance of the federal government’s trust responsibility to Indian Tribes and their tribal members; and WHEREAS, prior to FY05, Alaska Native Tribes had the option either to receive their Native American Housing Block Grant funding through a …

Resolution 2019-08: Calling on the United States Government to Renounce the Doctrine of Discovery

February 6, 2020February 5, 2020

WHEREAS, Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is an Alaska Native tribal health and social services consortium established by the Interior Alaska tribes and tribal communities, to provide a unified voice in advancing sovereign tribal governments through the promotion of physical and mental wellness, education, socioeconomic development and culture of the Interior Alaska Native; and WHEREAS, the First People have inhabited this great …

Resolution 2019-07: Protect the Inherent Sovereign Rights of Native Tribes

February 6, 2020February 5, 2020