See The purpose – from the Article I of the ANB constitution:

The task today’s membership face is to recognize the issues and concerns that are really applicable today. The situations, although improved some, remain the same for most of the Alaska Natives and

American Indians today. They have only taken on different forms. The other complications is that assimilation is working, slowly upon our peoples. So I believe it remains the same but finding ways to implement and help have become grayer.