CIRI descendant Mariah Huhndorf, a student at Kenai Central High School, participated in the 12th Annual Patty Iron Cloud National Native American Youth Initiative (NNAYI) program held in Washington D.C. this summer sponsored by the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP). AAIP sponsors this program to educate and encourage more Native American students into health professions. The students were taken on field trips that included tours of the National Institutes of Health, Office of Minority Health and George Washington University School of Medicine. NNAYI was created in 1998 to increase the number of American Indian/Alaska Native students entering health professions and biomedical research. Mariah is the daughter of CIRI shareholder Stan and Anne Huhndorf.
Mission
The mission of CIRI is to promote the economic and social well-being and Alaska Native heritage of our Shareholders, now and into the future, through prudent stewardship of the company’s resources, while furthering self-sufficiency among CIRI Shareholders and their families.
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Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) is one of 12 regional corporations established in Alaska by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. CIRI is owned by nearly 9,500 Shareholders, primarily of Athabascan, Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yup’ik, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Aleut/Unangax descent.
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