Date of Award
8-17-2013
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was an experiment and a radical departure from policies in creating corporations with all shareholders being equal. The replication of publically traded corporate governance has created frustrations, inequities and unintended consequences for thousands of Natives which can be righted only if the experiment is continued. This is not a history of land claims but an attempt to unravel a tangled web of leadership, political, and rural development issues that are intimately interwoven with the ANCSA corporations. This paper is not about second guessing the leadership of the movement but about the need to understand how difficult it is to create rural development on corporate lands whose shareholders may or may not be residents and may not be Native.
Recommended Citation
Blatchford, Edgar, "Alaska Native claims settlement act and the unresolved issues of profit sharing, corporate democracy, and the new generations of Alaska Natives" (2013). Indigenous Studies. 4.
https://ualaska.researchcommons.org/uaf_grad_indigenous_studies/4
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4626