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Tanana Chiefs Conference

“Tanana Chiefs Conference provides 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 people.”

64 years on the ground, 1 funder on the record.

Home groundAlaska
Founded1962
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Right nowGates of the Arctic (Ambler Road): Ambler Metals initiates Arctic mine permitting

The origin

How they started

Tanana Chiefs Conference is the tribal consortium of Interior Alaska: 42 members, including 39 villages and 37 federally recognized Tribes, across 235,000 square miles. It works for Tribal self-determination and runs health, natural resource and community programs for the region. It sued over the Ambler Road in 2020 with five Interior villages and says it will keep fighting it.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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The backers

Backed on the record by Pew Charitable Trusts, latest filing FY24.

On the Hill

Tanana Chiefs Conference has hired federal lobbyists: 58 filings from 2019 to 2026, naming 14 bills. The filings, at the Senate.

Most filed on tribal affairs, the budget and disaster planning.

Their ground

The places they defend

On the ground · Comments close Nov 2Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)

Sued over the Ambler road in 2020 with Alatna, Allakaket, Evansville, Huslia and Tanana (Alatna Village Council v. Heinlein), and says it will keep fighting it

Who’s defending it

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Where and what
Works ontribal sovereignty · subsistence · Ambler Road
Active inAlaska
Who writes the rules where they work

The Alaska congressional delegation averages 4 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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Sources and methodFunders: the funders’ own returns (Schedule I and 990-PF Part XV) via ProPublica, names and years only. Lobbying: Senate LDA filings naming Tanana Chiefs Conference as client or registrant, read from the MTJP LDA corpus. Place links: MTJP editorial curation with per-link sources. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.