The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, signed into law Dec. 18, 1971, settled Alaska Native peoples’ aboriginal land claims and distributed 44 million acres of land and nearly $1 billion to 12 land-based Alaska Native regional corporations, including CIRI.
Please join us in congratulating Elder of the Year, the late Penny Carty; Shareholder of the Year Ivan Encelewski; and Youth Recognition Award recipient Grace Carlson.
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Every Alaska Native person with a living memory of the passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) has a story to tell. To tell my story, I must go back in time long before ANCSA passed.
For CIRI shareholder Rebecca Louie (Tlingit/Aleut), working in affordable housing is more than just a job—it’s a way of combating “the injustice that comes from being low income and doing what I can to help,” she said.
