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The Corporate Whale: ANCSA, The First 10 Years Program 10 of 10

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Publisher: Educational Media Services
SR Box 20155
Fairbanks, AK 99701

McPherson, Karen Michel


1982

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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12, 7, 8

Theme(s): ANCSA

Category: General ANCSA
The title and content of the series provide an analogy between the role of the whale in certain Alaska Native subsistence lifestyles, and the roles and responsibilities of the corporations created under ANCSA. Each tape in the ten part series begins with the following prayer by the Reverend Merculieff from St. George Island: "This land of Alaska, which thou gave to our ancestors who had come and gone before us, is now being handed to us a second time by the act of the United States Congress and our untiring efforts. A second chance is given to us by thee to be the new custodians and caretakers."
"This is a very serious and important day in history; we have a tremendous amount of work to do in implementing this bill...we cannot do it in a matter of a day or two or a week or a month...A decade has passed since Don Wright said those words to delegates attending the Anchorage Convention of AFN on December 18, 1971...the money has all been transferrred. The Department of the Interior has conveyed less than half of the promised land...In this program...leaders involved in land claims implementation assess the bill that Barrow activist Charlie Edwardson, Jr. once referred to as 'a new harpoon.' "1 Interview segments include perspectives of Edna Maclean (Iñupiaq linguist, Alaska Native Language Center); Andy Hope III (Shee Atika Corporation, Sitka); Sam Kito (past President, Alaska Federation of Natives; AFN lobbyist; Board Member, Doyon, Ltd.; Board of Regents, University of Alaska); Nelson Angapak (Vice President, Calista); Al Adams (President, Kikiktagruk Iñupiat Corporation); Roger Lang (Board Member, Sealaska; former President, AFN, Alaska Native Foundation); Tim Wallis (President, Doyon, Ltd.); Senator Ted Stevens; Willie Hensley (Chairman, NANA Development Corporation); Byron Mallott (President, Sealaska). Topics include the need for consolidation of previous Indian legislation, issues of equality or "corporate democracy," determining the extent of ANCSA's jurisdiction, protection of Native subsistence rights, interpretation and implementation of the 7(i) provision, shareholder relations and information, enrollment of afterborns, and 1991.
1 McPherson, Karen Michel, The Corporate Whale, Program 10 of 10, (Fairbanks, AK: Educational Media Services, 1982).



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