Orville Huntington
Interior Villages

Mr. Huntington's early work experience primarily involved seasonal labor with Bureau of Land Management as an Emergency Fire Fighter and as a self-employed commercial fisherman. For the decade prior to his Federal employment, he worked in the Laborer’s and Carpenter’s Union. He has never left Alaska for more than three weeks, and grew up living and still lives a traditional Native subsistence way of life in the village of Huslia, Alaska. He currently works for the Huslia Tribal Council as their Tribal Operations Specialist. In the village he also served as a Tribal and City Council member. Outside the village he was on K’oyitl’ots’ina Ltd. Board of Directors (Treasurer) for the villages of Huslia, Hughes, Allakaket and Alatna, Brooks Range Contracting Board of Directors, Koyukuk Moose Hunter’s Working Group, Interior Regional Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Mr. Huntington currently sits on the Interior Athabascan Tribal College Board of Trustees and on the Alaska Native Science Commission Board of Commissioners. His primary responsibilities continue to be the preservation of Native subsistence hunting, fishing, gathering and trapping opportunities and the cultural events that surround those beliefs, and as a public servant for the village of Huslia and the 43 villages of the Tanana Chiefs Conference region.

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