SpinLaunch identified Ugadaga Bay as a possible location to build a large centrifuge to launch satellites into low Earth orbit.
Alaska Native Corporations
Profits eluded Sealaska for decades. Now it’s ditching timber and plastics, and investing in kelp.
An investment in Barnacle Foods, while small, is a potent symbol of the corporation’s new vision. Other corporations are taking similar steps.
Lawsuit pushes to move Hooper Bay and Scammon Bay into the same House voting district as Bethel
The Calista Corporation, along with two private individuals from Scammon Bay and Hooper Bay, are suing the Alaska Redistricting Board.
ANCSA made only Alaska Natives born before December 1971 corporate shareholders. Those born after want change
Some Alaska Native leaders say that issuing shares to descendants is an obvious choice to help preserve Native corporations’ Indigenous character and distinguish them from traditional capitalist businesses.
Indigenous-led conservation and development effort gets $2M boost from foundations
A pair of million-dollar donations come from the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation and Los Angeles-based Edgerton Foundation.
Proposed Ambler project underscores promise and peril of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Ambivalence about the Ambler road and mine projects extends across the Upper Kobuk River region, where jobs could support subsistence but development could jeopardize it.
‘Being good relatives’: New program aims to increase collaboration between Alaska Native tribes and corporations
Corporations and tribes serve the same communities, but sometimes the two entities are at odds or struggle to coordinate over community decisions.
Alaska without ANCSA? Look to Metlakatla.
Metlakatla Indian Community is the only federal reserve in Alaska and is not a part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
With reading and writing close behind, Juneau’s school board approves spoken Lingít teaching standards
The school district has been working with community partners like Sealaska Heritage Institute, the Douglas Indian Association, and Goldbelt Heritage Foundation to foster the revitalization of Lingít language.
Yakutat village corporation delays board elections after criticism of its logging operations
In an unsigned letter to the corporation’s shareholders, management says the election could be tainted by what it called “unfair attacks.”