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Anchorage, Alaska.The idea to form the Native American Credit Union Coalition came about after Helen Mickel, president/CEO the $224 Tongass Federal Credit Union in Ketchikan, Alaska, and Denise Hudson, Tongass’ assistant vice president of consumer lending, traveled to attend a conference of Qweesta, the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities.
“After we walked into the [conference] room and Denise said – with this big old smile on her face as she looks around the room – these people look like they could be my aunties and uncles and cousins,” Mickel said. Hudson is a proud Ts’msyen, or sometimes spelled Tsimshian, which is a name broadly applied to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Another Tsimshian community is located on Annette Island Reserve, in Metlakatla, Alaska, according to the American Museum of Natural History.
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