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Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC) was formed in 1972 as the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) regional corporation for the Bering Straits and Norton Sound region. The corporation actively pursues responsible development of resources and other business opportunities. Through its subsidiaries, BSNC serves the federal government ...
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.
The newly passed Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act created twelve Native regional economic development corporations. [26] Each corporation was associated with a specific region of Alaska and the Natives who had traditionally lived there. [26] This innovative approach to native settlements engaged the tribes in corporate capitalism. [26] [34]
The Inupiat[2] (singular: Iñupiaq [3]) are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. [4][5][6][7] Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat (Iñupiaq lands), including seven Alaskan ...
The Aleut Corporation was incorporated in Alaska on June 21, 1972. [1] Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, The Aleut Corporation is a for-profit corporation with approximately 3,410 Alaska Native shareholders, [2] primarily of Aleut descent originating in the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, and Shumagin Islands of Alaska. [3]
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a 2019 book by Brown University historian Bathsheba Demuth, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] The book examines environmental and social change in the Beringia region surrounding the Bering Strait from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, focusing on the pursuits of American and Russian interests and their ...
Map showing NANA's region, with an inset showing the region in relation to Alaska as a whole. Adjacent regions are those of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (to the north), Bering Straits Native Corporation (to the south) and Doyon, Limited (to the east). Until 1971, the issue of land ownership in Alaska was divisive.
Alaska Communications. Alaska Power and Telephone Company. Alaska Railroad. Alaska USA Federal Credit Union. Aleut Corporation. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. AT&T Alascom.