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    Alaska Native claims settlement act and the unresolved issues of profit sharing, corporate democracy, and the new generations of Alaska Natives

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    Blatchford, Edgar
    Chair
    Gerlach, Craig
    Nakazawa, Anthony T.
    Committee
    Gabrielli, Ralph B.
    Pullar, Gordon L.
    Shepro, Carl E.
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    Abstract
    The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was an experiment and a radical departure from policies in creating corporations with all shareholders being equal. The replication of publically traded corporate governance has created frustrations, inequities and unintended consequences for thousands of Natives which can be righted only if the experiment is continued. This is not a history of land claims but an attempt to unravel a tangled web of leadership, political, and rural development issues that are intimately interwoven with the ANCSA corporations. This paper is not about second guessing the leadership of the movement but about the need to understand how difficult it is to create rural development on corporate lands whose shareholders may or may not be residents and may not be Native.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2013
    Table of Contents
    Chapter 1. Prelude -- A complex puzzle of intent, leadership, and corporate democracy -- The disconnected dots, confusion and secrecy emergence of paradoxes and controversies -- Governance intent -- The superimposition of non-Alaska Native intent -- The relevance of the past -- Alaska Native corporate governance, the failure to be bold, experimental benefits of enrollment -- Alaska Native corporate democracy -- Did Congress intend pure corporate democracy? -- Evolution of corporate democracy: from concepts to words to making laws -- The entering of "corporation" in the Alaska Native lexicon -- Who was watching the store in 1969? -- Pure corporate democracy, the unfulfilled, unintended consequence -- The FitzGerald Commission: Land claims settlement and poverty -- Management of assets -- The daunting task of corporate governance -- Tactics change, new leadership emerges and the table is rearranged -- The bottom line versus the social agenda -- Chapter 2. Prelude -- An experiment born out of poverty and frustrations: efforts to civilize the Indian and bring the Alaska Native into the 20th century -- An experiment, big and bold -- Facing political reality -- FitzGerald Commission findings -- Was there bias for a corporate structure? -- Social and political pressure for a settlement -- Seeds of corporate democracy -- Undoing Federal assimilation policy -- Managing the for-profit corporations -- Germinating the corporate seed -- The corporate seed -- Secretary Udall's trust responsibility -- Senungetuk's hide box -- Traditional Alaska Native governance in the modern sense -- Governance in the corporate system: the superimposition of an alien system -- The challenges of change -- Chapter 3. -- Prelude -- ANCSA shareholders and corporate participation -- Transparencies and shareholders -- Raising the question -- Participation promotes change -- Adoption of election tactics -- ANCSA: Where all are equal -- Applicability of Sparks article -- Unique and distinct from all others -- Think outside of the box to empower -- A lonely cause, ANCSA corporate change -- Evidence of the changing characteristics of ANCSA corporations -- Causing change, shareholders or managers or boards -- Too big to change -- Who will lead? -- Chapter 4. Prelude -- The strength of culture, the allure of dividends -- Chapter 5. -- Prelude -- To affect local affairs, create municipal governments -- The demise of a concept, pure corporate democracy -- Chapter 6. -- Prelude -- Conclusion -- Aftermath: Igniting a revolution -- Acronyms -- Definitions -- References -- Bibliography -- Appendices.
    Date
    2013-08
    Type
    Dissertation
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    Indigenous Studies

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