Photo courtesy of the US Park Service
The Tanana Chiefs Conference, the governing body of the Dena’ Nena’ Henash nonprofit corporation in central Alaska, has chartered Denali College, the newest tribal college. Officially established in February 2019, the institution is located in Fairbanks, the largest city in Alaska’s interior. Outside the city’s borders, the Dena’ Nena’ Henash corporation covers some 235,000 square miles a land mass nearly the size of Texas. There are six subregions of the Dena’ Nena’ Henash with 36 tribes, but they are united by a common culture and language family, Na-Dene (also known as Athabascan), as well as the sacred Denali the highest mountain in North America.