The Alaska Federation of Natives will hold its 2009 conference in Anchorage.

Officials in Fairbanks, where the conference was held last year and in 2005, hoped to lure AFN back to their city. But Anchorage lobbied just as hard to host the largest gathering of Alaska Natives.

This year's conference was the first major event in the new Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage. The facility pays tribute to the state's first inhabitants.

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Alaska Federation of Natives to hold 2009 convention in Anchorage (The Fairbanks News-Miner 12/9)