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Your question about editing on Alaska native corporations

Alaska Native Regional Corporations has only about 370 words of prose (excluding the text of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the tables listing the corporations, so it does look like it would benefit from some work. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act has about 440 words, not counting the list of the provisions of the act and the lists of corporations, so it also could benefit from a fuller discussion. From the standpoint of improving Wikipedia, I think it would be a good idea to work on either article (or both). However, I will not be giving you a grade. :) You need to discuss the specifics of what you will be doing with your professor. -- Donald Albury 12:46, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

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Alaska's Native Regional Corporations

13 Alaskan Regional Corporations

NANA Regional Corporation
Cook Inlet Region, Inc
Calista Corporation
Bristol Bay Native Corporation
Sealaska Corporation
Aleut Corporation
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
Ahtna, Incorporated
Bering Straits Native Corporation
Chugach Alaska Corporation
Koniag, Incorporated
Doyon, Limited
The 13th Regional Corporation

Alaska had many issues regarding land ownership up until 1971. On the northern slope oil was discovered and this caused Alaska Native peoples to worry about maintaining the rights to traditional lands and the ability to protect their valuable subsistence resources. In order to help resolve many issues involving land rights the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was created. The ANCSA created thirteen regional for-profit corporations to manage these land rights.

On June 7,1972 the NANA Regional Corporation, the first of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations was created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are about 12,000 shareholders of this establishment and they are of Inupiat descent. These stocks can only be inherited or gifted. An important economic, cultural and social value these people share is the preservation of subsistence resources. This firm states that their mission is: "We improve the quality of life for our people by maximizing economic growth, protecting and enhancing our lands, and promoting healthy communities with decisions, actions, and behaviors inspired by our Iñupiat Ilitqusiat values consistent with our core principles." The land base for this corporation is in Kotzebue, Alaska and they own about 2,280,000 acres of mineral rich land. NANA works with their partners to develop the resources so that the shareholders benefit and anyone they work with must be in agreement with the priority these people hold for subsistence.

On June 8,1972 the Cook Inlet Region, Inc., the second of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are at least 7,300 shareholders of this establishment and they are of Athabascan, Southeast Indian, Inupiat , Yup'ik, Alutiiq , and Aleut descent. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold but they can be transferred by gift or inheritance almost always to descendants or relatives. One project this establishment started working on in 2009 is an underground coal gasification which is more environments friendly but there are a few concerns.

On June 12,1972 the Calista Corporation, the third of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are about 17,300 shareholders of this establishment and they are mainly of Yup'ik descent. This establishment received a patent for 4,997,263 acres, which covers about 56 villages, and about $80 million from the federal government making it the second largest corporation established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Businesses under this firm include: rural newspapers, oil well services, business services, title insurance, equipment leasing, computer consulting, real estate, environmental consulting, construction and wholesale distribution.

On June 13,1972 the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, the fourth of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are about 8,700 shareholders and they Yup'ik, Alutiiq , Aleut , Dena'ina , and Athabaskan descent. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold. This firm covers about 34 million acres.

On June 16,1972 the Sealaska Corporation, the fifth of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are 17,600 shareholders and they are Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian descent. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold but they can be transferred by gift or inheritance. This corporation is in control of 290,000 acres. In 1981 this corporation established the Sealaska Heritage Institute, which manages its cultural and educational programs. They also created a Permanent Fund, this comprises investments in stocks, bonds, real estate, and private equity funds, as a source of shareholder dividends. Some of Sealaska Corporation's principal economic enterprises include the harvesting of timberand marketing of wood products, along with land and forest resource management, plastics injection molding, manufacturing, environmental consulting, construction and manufacturing aggregates, information technology,machining and prototyping.

On June 21,1972 the The Aleut Corporation, the sixth of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are about 3,410 shareholders mainly of Aleut descent. This corporation covers 66,000 acres of surface land and 1.572 million acres of subsurface estate. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold. The Aleut Corporation primary business areas revolve around government contracting, telecommunications, environmental remediation, real estate management, trust management, sales of sand, gravel, mineral, and rock aggregates, investments in oil and gas, producing properties and marketable securities.

On June 22,1972 the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, the seventh of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. There are 11,000 shareholders of Inupiat descent. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold. This corporation holds title to about 5,000,000 acres of Alaska's North Slope. Most of these lands are highly prospective for oil and gas, coal and base metal sulfides. Some of the lands contain known resource reserves such as the Alpine Oil Field and the Western Arctic Coalfields.

On June 23, 1972 the next four Alaska Native Regional Corporations came into existence the Ahtna, Incorporated, Bering Straits Native Corporation , Chugach Alaska Corporation , and Koniag, Incorporated came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. All of these corporations have no publicly traded stock and their shares cannot be sold. Ahtna, Incorporated has 1,200 Alaska Native shareholders primarily of Ahtna Athabaskan descent. Ahtna, Incorporated has 1,770,000 acres including regional and village entitlements. Activities of the corporation include construction, maintenance and services, telecommunications and natural resources. The next corporation mentioned, Bering Straits Native Corporation, has about 6,700 Alaska Native shareholders of Inupiat , Siberian Yupik , and Yup'ik descent. This corporation is in control of about 2 million acres of surface and or subsurface estate in this region. The next corporation mentioned is the Chugach Alaska Corporation with more than 2,200 shareholders primarily of Chugach, Alutiiq , Eyak, and Tlingit descent. This corporation has 10 million acres under their control. The last corporation created on this day, the Koniag, Incorporated, has about 3,400 shareholders and they are mainly of Alutiiq descent. Complications of the land selection process, especially the lack of available land given the region's long history of non-Native settlement, led to land exchanges through which Koniag was permitted to select subsurface rights in lands along the coast of the Alaska Peninsula across Shelikof Strait from Kodiak Island. Later, some of the Alaska Peninsula lands were exchanged for land on Afognak Island.

On June 26,1972 the Doyon, Limited, the twelfth of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations, came into existence under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. This corporation has about 18,000 shareholders mainly of Northern Athabaskan Indian descent. This corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold. This firm's land entitlement under ANCSA is about 12.5 million acres making it one of the largest private landowners in North America.

A few years later on December 31,1975 the last of one of the thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations came into existence - The Thirteenth Regional Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 in settlement of Alaska Native land claims. Unlike the other 12 corporations this one is not headquartered in Alaska but in Seattle, Washington. Also the 13th Regional Corporation and its shareholders received only monetary compensation, with no land conveyance, in settlement of aboriginal land claims. This corporation's creation was dependent upon how many of approximately 78,000 Alaska Native people allowed for enrollment under ANCSA voted "yes" on Section 22 of the official enrollment form, which reads, "Do you elect to establish and be enrolled in a 13th Region?" The initial determination of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was that an insufficient number of enrollees voted for creation of a The 13th Regional Corporation, and each of the "yes" voters was instead designated as a shareholder in one of the original 12 regional corporations. The 13th Regional Corporation has about 5,500 Alaska Native shareholders of Eskimo, American Indian, and Aleut descent. Its original enrollment was of Alaska Natives who were no longer residents in Alaska.

The Alaskan Native Regional Corporations are working towards protecting and helping save the land and the Native People of Alaska.

References

Jules823 (talk) 15:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Already-existing article

You'll probably want to merge your information with the already-existing Alaska Native Regional Corporations article.--Pharos (talk) 22:22, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

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