Celebration for Blake to proceed despite GTC’s planned appeal

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Celebration for Blake to proceed despite GTC’s planned appeal – Cabin Radio

by ahnationtalk on January 31, 2025186 Views

January 31, 2025

A celebration for Frederick Blake Jr will go ahead in Tsiigehtchic on Friday despite the Gwich’in Tribal Council’s stated intention of appealing a court verdict that Blake is the new grand chief.

The tribal council had called a special assembly in the community to install Blake as its new leader after the NWT Supreme Court ruled he had won last year’s election.

But on Thursday, the tribal council appeared to reverse course. The GTC said its board had decided to file an appeal and was simultaneously postponing the special assembly until at least March.