Sealaska

Sealaska says its businesses are making more money and helping boost shareholder dividends. But much of the payout comes from other corporations’ resource earnings.

Southeast’s regional Native corporation is using some of its lands for carbon sequestration. It’s the first carbon bank in the state to be approved for the California cap-and-trade market.

Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation is making more money. That’s allowing it to double dividends and increase scholarships.

Few people still use the hand-carved halibut hook. But there’s a push to make sure the tradition sticks around.

Dixie Booker hopes to eventually build a 2,000-square-foot greenhouse with more than 100 aeroponic towers to grow year-round produce for the community. 

What impact have Alaska Native corporations had on original shareholders and their descendants? Several members of the Soboleff family weighed in.

A longtime Alaska political and business leader is fighting prostate cancer. Former Sen.Albert Kookesh of Angoon spent 16 years in the Alaska Legislature and 14 years heading up Sealaska’s governing board.

Sealaska Heritage Institute recently published the “Beginning Tlingit Workbook.” It is part of the ongoing effort to revitalize Tlingit language.

The management slate won this year’s Sealaska board election. Three incumbents and a newcomer who ran with them beat out eight independent candidates.

Should Southeast’s regional Native corporation shrink its governing board? That’s a question before Sealaska shareholders. Management opposes the change.