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The Corporate Whale: ANCSA, The First 10 Years Program 7 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: Regional 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."
"Of the 13 regional corporations...six of 12 share 16 million of 44 million acre total under a complex provision of the act called the land loss formula. These regional land allocations are based on the size of the land area initially claimed rather than the size of the Native population living in the claimed area...And the Act further states in one of its most controversial provisions, 7(i), that 70% of all revenues derived from resource development must be shared among all 12 in-state ANCSA corporations...Both the land loss formula and 7(i)...were intended to be equalizers in the settlement, providing resource revenues to regions without rich lands, in addition to land to those without large populations. This program...will examine two regional corporations particularly affected by these provisions: the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation in the North, and Doyon, Limited in the Interior."1
Interview segments feature perspectives of Native leaders Oliver Leavitt (whaling captain; Treasurer, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation); and Tim Wallis (President, Doyon, Limited); also Dave Williams (Vice President-Lands, Doyon, Limited). Topics include oil leases on Arctic Slope Regional Corporation lands and the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska.
1 McPherson, Karen Michel, The Corporate Whale, Program 7 of 10, (Fairbanks, AK: Educational Media Services, 1982).



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