Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Erma Syers
Honoring those who have passed on is a labor of love for CIRI shareholder Erma Syers.
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Shareholder Spotlight: Tammy Ashley
Tammy Ashley drinks a lot of coffee. With a full-time job, a busy family life and volunteer commitments that range from Girl Scouts to emergency ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Deb Winkelman
After 25 years as an elementary-school teacher, Deb Winkelman was looking forward to retirement. But it wasn’t the life of leisure she envisioned. “I knew ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Long-Serving CIRI Board Member Jerry Brown Passes Away at 82
Long-serving CIRI Director and CIRI Elders’ Settlement Trust trustee Gerald “Jerry” Grant Brown passed away July 30 at home in Everett, Wash., surrounded by his ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Descendant Spotlight: Rosemary Berg
Originally from Point Hope, Rosemary Berg isn’t your typical beauty pageant contestant – and that suits her just fine. Initially, the half Inupiaq, half African-American ...
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Shareholder Spotlight: Olive Blumenstein
An uprooted childhood, a Navy career fueled by wanderlust, family lost and found – Olive Blumenstein’s life reads like the most incredible fiction.
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