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“The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and the Native corporation system have been good for Alaska Natives”. 

The reason that I say this is because what I have been reading is that the Alaska Natives have said themselves that it was a good system for them for a long time. “it’s fair to say that, after a rocky start, many of the regional corporations have done fairly well. In 2004, seven of the top ten Alaska-owned businesses were Native regional corporations, which distributed $117.5 million in shareholder dividends, employed 3,116 Native shareholders, and paid $5.4 million in scholarships for Native students (Linxwiler, 2007)”.  With this being said they had a hard time in the beginning but once they got started they were able to start rolling.

“But is economic performance all that really matters? While ANCSA was designed only to provide Alaska Natives with opportunities for economic development, many Natives saw the corporation system as a substitute for—or a rival to—the traditional structures of tribal government. Among Alaska Natives, tribes are generally associated with individual villages (“Alaska Native Villages,” 2016)”. This was for the Alaska Natives and then they branched out and made it to non-natives have it as well.    

Linxwiler, J. (2007). The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act at 35: Delivering on the promise. https://lbblawyers.com/ancsa/ancsa-at-35-delivering-on-the-promise-proof-10-25-07

Alaska Native villages. (2016). American Indian Resource Directory. https://web.archive.org/web/20051125001107/http://www.indians.org/Resource/FedTribes99/Region1/region1.html

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