Chickaloon Native Village

Chickaloon Native Village, doing business as Chickaloon Village Traditional Council, is a federally recognized Ahtna Dene tribal government located in Sutton-Alpine, Alaska, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across transportation, justice, environmental, cultural preservation, and aging-services programs. The tribe operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient (98% of its 180 awards in recent years) with no federal contract prime awardees and holds no seats on federal contract vehicles. Chickaloon is a tribally owned entity serving a service area of approximately 5,957 square miles across multiple Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

The tribe's grant footprint spans 35 distinct federal agencies and reflects sustained activity in formula grants and project grants across six primary program domains. The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration and Federal Highway Administration together account for 41 awards funding the Chickaloon Area Transit Service (covering vehicle operating assistance, preventive maintenance, and driver wages under CFDA 20.509) and the Tribal Transportation Program (road construction, maintenance, and transportation infrastructure under CFDA 20.205). The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living funds 29 awards under the Older Americans Act Title VI program (CFDA 93.047), the Nutrition Services Incentive Program (CFDA 93.048), and Title VI Part C caregiver support (CFDA 93.049), delivering supportive services and nutrition programming to Alaska Native elders. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance anchors nine awards supporting tribal law enforcement, victim services, treatment courts, and youth programs, including a $1.5 million grant to develop electronic service of protection orders (CFDA 16.062), a $1.5 million Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction program (CFDA 16.025), a $900,000 grant to hire and train tribal police officers (CFDA 16.596), and a $400,000 Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Court (CFDA 16.585).

Beyond justice and transportation, the tribe holds significant grants in environmental restoration and capacity-building. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $6.16 million under the Habitat Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 11.463) for a five-year fish passage restoration initiative in the Moose Creek watershed, including culvert removal and salmon habitat restoration, and an earlier $1.85 million cooperative agreement for fish barrier removal and fish passage working-group coordination. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funded two Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) totaling $200,000 for Matanuska watershed salmon research combining traditional knowledge and western science. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $299,492 for environmental data management systems (CFDA 66.608), $134,000 for tribal environmental capacity-building across administrative, programmatic, communications, waste management, and technical dimensions (CFDA 66.926), and grant funding for brownfields response programs (CFDA 66.817). The Institute of Museum and Library Services funded a $250,000 project to digitize and preserve Ahtna Dene community biography and cultural materials (CFDA 45.308), and the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a $270,000 cultural preservation initiative—"We Are Making Connections"—to develop a comprehensive tribal online collections database (award date October 1, 2023 through October 31, 2027).

Chickaloon also received $3 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) for Moose Creek watershed restoration, a $332,600 Indian Economic Development grant (CFDA 15.032) to support Ahtna language instructor development at the Ya Ne Dah Ah School immersion program, and $984,969 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for its Tribal Opioid Response program (CFDA 16.838) to expand prevention, wellness, and recovery services. The Office on Violence Against Women awarded $1.5 million under the Grants to State and Tribal Courts Protection Order Pilot Program (CFDA 16.062) and $254,413 under the VOCA Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program (CFDA 16.841). The tribe also received Office for Victims of Crime funding ($272,089) and Department of Justice Community Policing Grants totaling $616,691 (CFDA 16.710) for law enforcement hiring.

Activity peaked at 23 awards in 2023, declining to 8 awards year-to-date in 2026 (as of September 1, 2026). Nine awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure. The tribe acts as prime recipient on all significant awards; sub-recipient roles (2% of portfolio) include two Chickaloon Village Traditional Council foster-care and family-services sub-awards and a sub-award from the City of Palmer for drug-endangered children multidisciplinary team participation funded through the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Chickaloon operates across Alaska with place of performance consistently identified as Alaska or specific localities (Sutton-Alpine, Palmer, Chickaloon, Sutton) within the tribe's traditional Ahtna Dene territory.