“It’s about helping people know who they are culturally and through heritage as well as helping them to then succeed in their educational path.”
Alaska Native Corporations
Theology school calls off Native art sale amid investigation
The pieces are from 52 tribes, including Tlingit and Haida items that might be sacred. The country’s oldest theology school could get dinged with penalties as feds investigate.
How to voice a story at 60 mph, 300 feet off the ground
“One, two, three, enjoy the ride, bye-bye,” was the last thing I heard before the whoosh of speed and air drowned out most sound. I was ziplining — and attempting to voice a story — on one of six parallel lines running down a mountain in Hoonah.
As the final dock pilings are drilled, a Hoonah controversy is put to rest
The publicly financed dock is being built where it serves a local Native corporation’s interests, only indirectly benefiting residents — although many are also shareholders.
Native regional corporation for Western Alaska elects first-ever chairwoman
Calista says in a news release that Pohjola has done accounting work for Cook Inlet Tribal Council, NANA and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. She graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in management and has been on Calista’s board since 1987.
In historic vote, Calista shareholders choose to enroll ‘afterborns’
The preliminary results from the annual meeting in Kasigluk dramatically reshapes the ownership of the YK Delta’s regional Alaska Native Corporation.
Regional Native corporation to consider opening enrollment to ‘afterborns’
If enrollment is opened up, Calista would join other corporations such as the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Doyon and Sealaska — all regional corporations that issue shares to descendants.
Sealaska board unchanged by election
Sealaska shareholders have returned five incumbents to the regional Native corporation’s 13-member board of directors.
Sealaska annual meeting Saturday, election results due
Sealaska shareholders meet Saturday in Juneau for their annual meeting. The Southeast regional Native corporation has about 22,000 shareholders.
Landless Natives bill gets first hearing before Congress
Haines, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and Tenakee were left out of 1971’s Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which gave land, money and corporate status to many other communities.