Unit 6 – Legislative process challenges
Unit 7 – Early ANCSA implementation
Unit 8 – Business leadership and ANCSA
Unit 9 – Misconceptions about ANCSA
Part II – ANCSA implementation process
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Unit 6 – Legislative process challenges
Alaska Native leaders like the late Chief Peter John from Minto and the late Andrew Isaac, the traditional chief of Tanacross, provided forceful testimony about encroachments on traditional lands during hearings arranged in 1968 by Senator Ernest Greening. Tanacross filed its first land claim in 1963. Held in Anchorage by the Senate Interior …
Unit 7 – Early ANCSA implementation
During the years of the land claims movement Alaska Native leadership was fairly fluid with a core group supported by many others from around the state who made valuable contributions when the time was right. In the final months before ANCSA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, Don Mitchell describes an atmosphere of …
Unit 8 – Business leadership and ANCSA
Political activism and corporate management require two different sets of skills. Some of the Alaska Native leaders involved in the ANCSA negotiation phase then had to change hats and fill the newly created management and directorship positions. This was not an easy task and some moved on to other tasks leaving room for others to …
Unit 9 – Misconceptions about ANCSA
The leadership challenges faced by Alaska Natives who worked on implementing ANCSA were really quite unique. They had to start work in reverse, controlling corporations with operating mandates and large numbers of shareholders but no businesses to run. People were thrust into high level management positions with no prior experience and had to make decisions …
