This year’s Proposed Full Board Resolutions have been published and can be downloaded as a complete document. 24 Full Board resolutions were submitted along with 12 Sub-Regional Resolutions. View Resolutions from previous years
Fr. Jules Jetté Dictionary and Koyukon Language Database The TCC Archaeology Program is working in collaboration with Athabascan Linguistic James Kari, Ken Pratt of the BIA and David Kingma of the Jesuit Oregon Province Archives to build a usable format of Koyukon place-names based on the Fr. Jules Jetté’s handwritten dictionary that he completed during his missionary work in Alaska around 1910. …
In 2012, during construction of a conservation levee along the Kuskokwim River in the Native Village of McGrath, workers noticed a shallowly-buried human skull that had been revealed by earth-clearing activity. This discovery became known as the “Tochak McGrath Discovery.” Under the direction of the TCC Archaeology Program, a forensic research group determined that the find included three intact human skeletal remains and …
In 2005, TCC Archaeological Program began work at Healy Lake due to a land sale on a restricted Native allotment. It was known that the Healy Lake area contained many existing archaeological sites from work that was conducted by Healy Lake Tribal members and academic researchers in the 1960s. Linda’s Point Linda’s Point is one of the sites discovered in the 1960s …
Upper Tanana archaeology around Northway The late William “Bill” Sheppard was a field researcher who focused on Alaska Native traditional lands, in the Upper Tanana River Valley region near Tok, Tetlin, Northway and Tanacross. His work in the 1990s and early 2000s focused on surveying and excavating Athabascan sites that existed before right before and after Russian-American colonization. He collected extensive field …
Upper Yukon River: A deep history in the Han traditional lands The David Site a major ongoing research project that has become the longest intensively occupied site in the Upper Yukon River floodplain. This research project began in the mid-1990s as a routine survey of a Native allotment, a few miles downstream of Eagle, at a large bedrock outcrop named Calico …
It’s in the mail…soon. In 1996, Elouise Cobell sued the federal government on behalf of 500,000 Indians for mismanagement of trust or restricted land in the United States. This settlement amount totals $3.4 billion dollars and is broken in two parts: $1.5 billion to Historical Class and Trust Administration Class (Trust Class) members and $1.9 billion to buy back small …
Winter 2016/2017. Increased applications to Regional Advisory Councils of the Federal Subsistence Board. January 2017. Rhonda Pitka, First Chief of Beaver, appointed to the Federal Subsistence Board. February 2017. Developed and delivered, in partnership with UAF Tribal Management Program, “Intro to the Board of Game” to strengthen participation and advocacy in the State of Alaska Board of Game system, advocates …
The Institute will provide an introduction to advocacy and supply hands on advocacy tools. The Institute will provide an introduction to the framework surrounding the Alaska Native Traditional Way of Life and Wellness.
Description This course will supply: an introduction to the operations of the Board Of Game, review of proposals effecting subsistence hunting regulations in Alaska, and methods of providing effective testimony. At the completion of this course students will be able to: Describe BOG basic operations in the establishment of subsistence hunting regulations; Identify the components of the BOG regulatory proposal …