From supranational to intertribal - Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities - page 76

Figure 3.4 Photo of Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council co-founder, Clarence
Lee Alexander, Fort Yukon, Alaska, receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal
during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Source: Used with permission from Associated Press: Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari.
set of political-historical circumstances created each of these institutions - and they
differ in scope and purview - all share the overarching aim of providing tools for
coordinating environmental issues across borders.
The enactment of the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 marked the beginning
of formal binational cooperation of water issues between Canada and the United
States. Although the BWT remains a central document for the governance of
transboundary waters, there is a growing call to widen the purview of the long-