Mines adviser Barbara Blake and tribal leader Rob Sanderson Jr. participate in a 2016 forum in Juneau. Sanderson is the new chairman of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission. (File photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
Rob Sanderson of Ketchikan has been selected to chair the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission.
Sanderson also is 4th Vice President of Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, which announced Sanderson’s recent appointment.
The transboundary commission is a consortium of 15 Southeast Alaska tribes in Craig, Douglas, Hydaburg, Juneau, Kake, Kasaan, Ketchikan, Klawock, Klukwan, Metlakatla, Petersburg, Saxman, Sitka, Wrangell and Yakutat.
The commission was established in 2014 as the United Tribal Transboundary Mining Work Group.
