Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments-Fort Yukon, AK
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. It works 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. 
The Council is comprised of leadership from ten indigenous nations located in the state of Alaska. As a Communities Creating Healthy Environments grantee, the Council will support citizen engagement and policy change to address the critical area of subsistence and traditional food access and the impact of federal and state policy on Native food supply. The Council aims to: strengthen community organizing and advocacy to address the food and recreational issues affecting the region; create a model project to increase citizen participation in the management of traditional and customary resources for the protection of traditional foods; increase funding and access to affordable healthy foods; and increase programming for traditional physical activities in and out of school.
