Deering / Alaska / United States
The Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments is a grassroots organization founded in 1985 on the principals of tribal self-governance, working to empower and build capacity of local member Tribal Governments to assume management responsibility of programs within their villages. Shall be to conserve and protect tribal land and other resources ; to encourage and support the exercise of tribal powers of self government ; to aid and support economic development ; to promote the general welfare of each member tribe and its respective individual members ; to preserve and maintain justice for all and, to otherwise, exercise all powers granted by its member villages and the purposes expressed in the preamble.
