Victor Mitander (b. 1951)
Victor Mitander was born in Dawson to Alice Mitander and is a Northern Tutchone citizen of Selkirk First Nation. He spent his early years on his parent's trapline at Scotty Creek, near Beaver Creek, and attended school in Dawson. Victor was a member of the Dawson YANSI Local and a director of YANSI from 1975 to 1977. He moved to Whitehorse in 1979 and worked for CYI as a federal treaty negotiator in the Yukon First Nations land claims process from 1974 to 1982. He was appointed chief negotiator by the CYI chiefs in 1985 and negotiated the AIP (1989) and the UFA and the model self-government agreements in 1993. He assisted CYFN and the Kaska Nation in negotiations with the federal government to devolve responsibility for oil and gas to the Yukon Government. Victor has led many boards and committees and was the first chair of the Porcupine Caribou Management Board from 1986 to 1989. He was a member of the Yukon Salmon Sub-Committee for three years.1)