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 Porter was a founding member of Northern Native broadcasting. In 1978, he was elected for the first of two terms as a vice-chair of the Council for Yukon Indians (CYI, now CYFN) for economic development. He also served as an assistant land claims negotiator for CYI.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll. And Indigenous Leadership Initiative, 2020 website: https://www.ilinationhood.ca/team/dave-porter))
-David Porter was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1982. He was appointed Minister of Tourism and Minister of Renewable Resources in May 1985 when the Yukon NDP was elected. He became Deputy Premier when the NDP were re-elected in 1985. He represented first Campbell riding and then Watson Lake.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll. And Indigenous Leadership Initiative, 2020 website: https://www.ilinationhood.ca/team/dave-porter)) He did not run in the 1989 Yukon election.
+David Porter was elected to the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 1982. He was appointed Minister of Tourism and Minister of Renewable Resources in May 1985 when the Yukon NDP was elected. He became Deputy Premier when the NDP were re-elected in 1985. He represented first Campbell riding and then Watson Lake.((Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll. And Indigenous Leadership Initiative, 2020 website: https://www.ilinationhood.ca/team/dave-porter)) He did not run in the 1989 Yukon election. Dave Porter's nephew, Tyler Porter, was elected as a Yukon Party MLA in 2025.
-After leaving the Yukon Legislature, Porter was executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, then Deputy Minister of Culture and Communications in the NWT. In the 1990s, he was Assistant Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs for British Columbia. In 2002, he was elected Chair of the Kaska Dena Council and in 2006 and again in 2006, he was on a three-member political executive of the First Nations Summit, the Summit Task Force. He became the CEO for the BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council and president of the Dena Kayeh Institute (DKI).((Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll. And Indigenous Leadership Initiative, 2020 website: https://www.ilinationhood.ca/team/dave-porter))
+After leaving the Yukon Legislature, Dave Porter was executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission, then Deputy Minister of Culture and Communications in the NWT. In the 1990s, he was Assistant Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs for British Columbia. In 2002, he was elected Chair of the Kaska Dena Council and in 2006 and again in 2006, he was on a three-member political executive of the First Nations Summit, the Summit Task Force. He became the CEO for the BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council and president of the Dena Kayeh Institute (DKI).((Yukon Archives, Yukon Agricultural Association coll. And Indigenous Leadership Initiative, 2020 website: https://www.ilinationhood.ca/team/dave-porter))