Unit 10 – Village corporations
Unit 11 – Corporate mergers
Unit 12 – Textbook review
Unit 13 – Problematic provisions of ANCSA
Unit 14 – Financial and legal options
Unit 15 – Success and future of ANCSA
Part III – Current land, villages corporation issues and events
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Unit 10 – Village corporations
The village corporations were quite different from the regionals and had eligibility requirements based on population numbers. A village needed to have had at least 25 residents listed in the 1970 census in order to be eligible to form a corporation under ANCSA, and the acreage allotted to each village corporation was also decided based …
Unit 11 – Corporate mergers
It is important to understand that in some areas quite significant amounts of land had been taken over by non-Native majority communities before ANCSA was negotiated and lands were withdrawn from the public domain to be made available for selection by the ANCs. Non-Natives had filed claims on homesteads, developed town-sites and urban areas, …
Unit 12 – Textbook review
Your text for this course was written by an author who had extensive firsthand experience with the ANCSA negotiations. An impressive amount of research went into the writing of the book and its companion volume, “Sold American.’ Some of Mitchell’s views are quite controversial but the historical information in the book is sound and …
Unit 13 – Problematic provisions of ANCSA
ANCSA is loaded with complicated technical provisions. When you begin to examine these closely you start to have an understanding of how different the ANCs really are from mainstream corporations. No main stream corporation ever had to spend the kind of monies that the ANCs had to outlay simply to clarify who owned what and …
Unit 14 – Financial and legal options
Some of the ANCSA corporations are extremely successful today. They have invested in a wide variety of businesses all over the United States, and some of them have invested internationally. Business subsidiaries include construction companies, security, technology and communications, tourism and hospitality, oil-field support services and many others. They are a major contributor to …
Unit 15 – Success and future of ANCSA
Some of the leaders who worked on the original ANCSA settlement are now either very elderly, or have passed over. In this final unit you will hear from five different Alaska Native leaders who have lived with ANCSA from the very beginning, some of whom have changed the way they look at its many different …
