The Regional Corporations

The regional corporations were set up as for-profit businesses very different from the "typical " reservation system seen in the lower 48 states. Both the Alaska Natives and Federal Goverment saw the failings of the reservation system and agreed that Alaska needed something different.

Some have dubbed the Corporations and ANCSA as a "Social Experiment"

This establishment of for-profit corporations was a big jump for a people who were not used to the politics and proceedings of the corporate world. One of the big issues was that all of a sudden there were these corporations that needed to be run with no one trained or educated to do so.

Regardless, it was a much better arrangement than the peoples to the South had been awarded.

The original ANCSA is definitely not without its shortfalls.

• unfamiliar corporate world
• idea of for profit corporations came from dominant culture
• Extinguished the Native rights to any and all lands not addressed in the Claim
• allowed potential for Natives to possible lose their land
• Excluded Natives born after 1971 form becoming shareholders
• No special benefits for elders as all shareholders had to be treated equally
• If a person missed the original enrollment period they could not be admitted late.

To address these issues amendments were made in 1991. Amendments

The big thing for the Native groups was that ANCSA created the 13 corporations, all of which would be entirely Native controlled as well as title to the lands that they had been awarded.

The 13 Regional Corporations. View

1. Arctic Slope Regional Corp
2. Aleut Corp
3. Ahtna Inc.
4. Bering Straits Native Corp
5. Bristol Bay Native Corp
6. Calista Corp
7. Cook Inlet Regional Inc
8. Chugach Alaska Corp
9. Doyon Ltd
10. Konaig Inc
11. Nana Regional Corp
12. Sea Alaska Corp
13. The 13th Regional Corp