Our Nation. Our people. Our future.
The government of Tribal Nation 3 serves its citizens, protects its lands and waters, and carries its own language and record forward under its own authority.
Scenery from public land at Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Not the Nation's land.
What do you need to do?
Search every department and every service, or start with one of these.
We govern for our citizens, we hold our homeland and our waters in trust for the people not yet born, and we keep our own language and our own record in our own hands.
Tribal Nation 3 is a sovereign government. It writes its own laws, runs its own courts, manages its own lands and waters, and answers to its own citizens. Everything else on this site follows from that.
Scenery from public land at Cross Island and Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuges, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Not the Nation's land. How these were chosen.
How the Nation governs
Seven elected Council members, an elected Chairperson, eight standing boards and commissions, and a public record that opens to any citizen who asks.
Chairperson
Dale Whitcomb
Term ends June 2028. Open office hours the first Wednesday of each month, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Community Hall, no appointment needed.
The whole Council and how to reach them
Every person named on this page is invented.
Language and cultural authority
The Nation runs its own language department, its own immersion school, its own archive and its own historic preservation office. This is the work of holding a language and a record, set out as government function, because that is what it is.
Teaching the language
8 classes and programs run this term, from the language nest for infants to a paid speaker apprenticeship. Council policy makes one hour a week of study part of the paid working week for every employee of the Nation.
Holding the record
The Tribal Archive holds the Nation's recordings, photographs and papers. Four hundred and twelve reels of audio were digitised this summer. None of it has been published, and none of it will be without Council direction and the agreement of the families.
Exercising the authority
The Historic Preservation Office reviews every federal undertaking that could affect the Nation's cultural resources. 2 consultations are open for comment right now.
The Nation's own words belong above each heading here, and this demo leaves that space open on purpose. Why this space is empty.
Every department, and who to call
35 departments across 9 areas of government. Search by name, filter by area, or start from what you are trying to get done.
Try a department, a service, or a word like firewood.
The community this government serves
Schools, the clinic, the elder center, the community hall, the ballfields, the wharf and the shop floor. A government exists for the ordinary week, not for the ceremony.
- Community life, facilities and the weekly calendar
- Youth programs, the gym schedule and the Youth Council
- The Elder Center, meals and rides
- Community links: school, clinic, court, cooperative
No photographs of people anywhere on this site. Why, and what a real Nation puts here.
Public information
Boil water advisory for the North District is lifted
The advisory issued 2 August after a main break on Ridge Road is lifted. Two consecutive clean samples returned on 5 August.
Posted 5 August 2026. Contact Utilities, 555-0172.
News
- 11 August 2026 Immersion school adds a second classroom for the autumn term Council approved the build out of a second immersion classroom at the Ashbend School Campus, raising capacity from eighteen children to thirty two.
- 7 August 2026 Shellfish beds three and four reopen after two weeks of testing Fisheries and Water Quality reopened the two beds closed on 22 July after four consecutive clean samples.
Public notices
- Tribal Administration Building closes at noon on 21 August The building closes at noon for the quarterly all staff meeting. Emergency Services and the Health Clinic keep normal hours.
- Tribal fishing and shellfish licences renew 1 October Renewals open 1 September. Licences not renewed by 31 October are closed and must be reapplied for.
The homeland