Tribal Governance
Tribal Operations
The Tribal Operations Department is responsible for assisting tribal members in establishing enrollment, maintaining the archives of organization materials, overseeing the ANA Grant Administration, and for the drafting of ordinances.
Tribal Operations Manager – Eda Carroll
Constitution, Bylaws and Corporate Charter
We, a group of Indians having the common bond of living together in the Village of Fort Yukon, Territory of Alaska, in order to have better life and greater security, make for ourselves this Constitution and By-Laws, by authority of the Act of Congress of June 18, 1934, as amended by the Acts of June 15, 1935 and May 1, 1936.
Ratified January 2, 1940
Tribal Council
The mission of the Tribal Government is to exercise governmental authority to promote economic and social development, advocate and secure tribal rights, to secure tribal lands, to enhance educational opportunities and to protect traditional cultural values with a unified voice on behalf of its tribal members.
The Tribal Council members are the governmental leadership of the Gwichyaa Gwich’in Tribe. The Tribal Council consists of seven (7) members and is elected by a majority of the tribal voters.
Seat A - First Chief (term 2020-2023): Nancy James
Seat B - Second Chief (term 2022-2025): Michael Peter
Seat C - Member (term 2020-2023): Corrina Cadzow
Seat D - Member (term 2021-2024): Joshua Cadzow
Seat E - Member (term 2021-2024): Daphne Fields
Seat F - Member (term 2022-2025): Mary Beth Solomon
Seat F - Member (term 2021-2024): Shannon Hardy
Traditional Chief: Steve Ginnis
Ordinances
Due to the size of this document, it has been separated into sections