If your organization's foray into Alaska involves energy or construction services, tourism, telecommunications, electrical contracting, environmental consulting and remediation or real estate development, it will likely be working with one or more of the state's regional or village native corporations. Formed by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 as an alternative to the reservation model implemented for native populations in the lower 48 states, these corporations today are powerful economic engines from the metropolitan Anchorage area to the energy-rich North Slope. Some of the larger of the 13 regional corporations have surpassed the US$1-billion-in-revenue per year mark and are on their way to being among the top economic forces in the state. Download article here.
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