Shareholder Spotlight: Amber Christensen Fullmer
CIRI shareholder Amber Christensen Fullmer (Inupiaq) decided to mark her hands and arms with traditional lines because, as a mixed-race person, “I could step out of being Native and into whiteness without thinking about it,” she explains.
Shareholder Spotlight: Cynthia Demientieff
A family tragedy at a young age set CIRI shareholder Cynthia Demientieff on a lifelong path of helping others.
Descendant Spotlight: LeeAnn Cooper Garrick
When LeeAnn Cooper Garrick was a young teen, her father picked her up after school one day and took her to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to apply for her Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood card.
Shareholder Spotlight: Rhonda Shelford Jansen
CIRI shareholder Rhonda Shelford Jansen’s art may evoke images of the past, but it took coming into her own as an adult and evolving past a “fear of failure that begins to diminish when you reach middle age” to commit to the act of creating said art.
Shareholder Spotlight: Clinton Ray Lageson
Though CIRI shareholder Clinton Ray Lageson spends much of his time collaborating with and advocating for Alaska Native and American Indian people across the U.S., his heart is at home with his Tribe and his family.
Shareholder Spotlight: Thomas Yates
After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CIRI shareholder Thomas Yates (Athabascan) wanted to fight.
