President And Founder
CurrentThe Native Conservancy was established to support Alaska Native peoples efforts to permanently protect and preserve culture and endangered habitat in ancestral homelands, thereby maintaining or securing title to Native lands in trust in order to protect and enhance our inherent rights of sovereignty, subsistence and spirituality.The Native Conservancy acknowledges the need to change the way conservation is accomplished and how land, culture, intrinsic values and Indigenous land fee titles are all respected and valued when preserving ancestral Native lands. The Native Conservancy is committed to giving Indigenous people a voice and a platform to protect their historical, cultural and traditional ways of life in future conservation agreements in order to retain ownership and control of their ancestral lands. This includes establishing creative conservation settlement trusts for present and future tribal stakeholders, protecting unique subsistence ways of life and empowering and funding locally-led food security programs.