State of Alaska Department of Public Safety

Founded in 1935, the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) was established to pursue a land suit on behalf of the Tlingit and Haida people. The organization of Central Council evolved out of the struggle of our people to retain a way of life strongly based on subsistence. That struggle included the rights of our people to claim lands we had used from time immemorial, lands we were given no claim to under the Western concept of land ownership.

Central Council-Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Website