By Aastha Sethi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio The Gwich’in Annual Assembly kicked off this week in Tsiigehtchic with participants emphasizing a desire to work together, despite ongoing legal disputes within the Gwich’in Tribal Council. Even so, adopting an agenda for the three-day meeting took roughly four and a half hours of Wednesday’s opening session. That included discussion of a forensic audit launched in 2023 over allegations of financial mismanagement, for which a report is now available. Delegates differed in their views regarding whether the report’s findings should be discussed in the open. “There’s members around this table that know what’s in that report, and there’s members around this table that are named in that report,” said Kelly McLeod, president of the Nihtat Gwich’in Council. “To have that information…
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