“One, two, three, enjoy the ride, bye-bye,” was the last thing I heard before the whoosh of speed and air drowned out most sound. I was ziplining — and attempting to voice a story — on one of six parallel lines running down a mountain in Hoonah.
Alaska Native Corporations
As the final dock pilings are drilled, a Hoonah controversy is put to rest
The publicly financed dock is being built where it serves a local Native corporation’s interests, only indirectly benefiting residents — although many are also shareholders.
Native regional corporation for Western Alaska elects first-ever chairwoman
Calista says in a news release that Pohjola has done accounting work for Cook Inlet Tribal Council, NANA and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. She graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in management and has been on Calista’s board since 1987.
In historic vote, Calista shareholders choose to enroll ‘afterborns’
The preliminary results from the annual meeting in Kasigluk dramatically reshapes the ownership of the YK Delta’s regional Alaska Native Corporation.
Regional Native corporation to consider opening enrollment to ‘afterborns’
If enrollment is opened up, Calista would join other corporations such as the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Doyon and Sealaska — all regional corporations that issue shares to descendants.
Sealaska board unchanged by election
Sealaska shareholders have returned five incumbents to the regional Native corporation’s 13-member board of directors.