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Bering Straits Native Corporation is owned by more than 8,000 Alaska Native shareholders. These include original shareholders, heirs and gift recipients residing inside and outside Alaska. BSNC shareholders who are Alaska Native are eligible to vote for the Board of Directors or on other advisory matters that come to the shareholders for a vote ...
The regional and village corporations are now owned by Alaska Native people through privately owned shares of corporation stock. Alaska Natives alive at ANCSA's enactment on December 17, 1971, who enrolled in a Native association (at the regional and/or village level) received 100 shares of stock in the respective corporation.
NANA was incorporated in Alaska on June 7, 1972. [1] NANA is a for-profit corporation with a land base in the Kotzebue area in northwest Alaska. Its corporate office is in Kotzebue, Alaska. NANA's Alaska Native shareholders are of Inupiat descent. The Northwest Arctic Native Association (now the Maniilaq Association) was NANA's predecessor, and ...
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting what is still the largest land claims settlement in United States history. [1][2] ANCSA was intended to resolve long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimulate economic ...
The Aleut Corporation, or TAC, is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. The Aleut Corporation was incorporated in Alaska on June 21, 1972. [1] Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, The Aleut Corporation is a for-profit ...
Calista is a for-profit corporation with 34,500 Alaska Native shareholders primarily of Yup'ik descent. [3] The name Calista (worker) is a portmanteau of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik words cali-, meaning "to work," and -ista, meaning someone or something which does. The Yup'ik language does not have a word for "corporation".
The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia - United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic ...
Inuit Arctic Business Alliance. Inuit Arctic Business Alliance is a partnership between three Alaska native corporations, the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, NANA Regional Corporation and Bering Straits Native Corporation. The alliance board is headed by Rex Rock. [1]