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The Corporate Whale: ANCSA, The First 10 Years Program 8 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: Village Corporations
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."
"More than 200 villages and groups were eligible to receive benefits under the ANCSA...To manage those benefits, Congress mandated the creation of village corporations, either not-for-profit or profit making entities. All chose the business option and set up new corporations in addition to existing traditional and political councils...Many of the people working for a claims settlement wanted to center the benefits on the villages, whose people used and occupied the land, and did not wish to create regional corporations as overseers...In this program...village and regional corporation leaders will discuss village-centered approaches to managing ANCSA's land and money entitlement and impact."1 Interview segments include perspectives of Emil Notti (first President, Alaska Federation of Natives); Rosemarie Maher (Charter Member, Statewide ANCSA Village Association; Board Member, Doyon, Ltd.; President, Northway Natives); Oliver Leavitt (Treasurer, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation); Dale Stotz (Corporate Manager, Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation, Barrow); John Schaeffer (President, NANA); Al Adams (State legislator; President, Kikiktagruk Iñupiat Corporation); Glen Fredericks (President, Kuskokwim Corporation); and Walter Carlo (President, River Villages; Board Member, Doyon, Ltd). Topics include the relationships between regional and village corporations, including the roles of regional corporations in overseeing village corporation budgets and land selections; also mergers of certain village corporations within regions, and the merger of 10 villages in the NANA region with the NANA regional corporation.
1 McPherson, Karen Michel, The Corporate Whale, Program 8 of 10, (Fairbanks, AK: Educational Media Services, 1982).



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