Nurturing Athabascan Unity and Sovereignty Across Alaska: The Tanana Chiefs Conference, is an article about the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) that is a nonprofit organization that works on a $72.7 million and 1,151 employees to try and meet the needs of vastly different tribes from western Alaska to the Canadian border. The TCC has many different programs that address many of the problems that the people from these regions face daily. The TCC was founded as a result of the historical meetings which occurred in the early 1900's between the various ancestral leaders who gathered in Tanana, Alaska, to trade and resolve issues that were relevant to the times and region. Approximately 40 percent of the TCC's employees work in the villages with the people that they are there to help. One of the things that TCC is doing is creating a task force and a one-year plan for encouraging local control over federal dollars and activities. This is there decentralization process and TCC is......
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