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.
Our Purpose
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.