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Article: Alaska Native village corporations: sleeping giant? ANCSA village corporations will continue to expand and develop their business operations both within and outside Alaska.
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Alaska Native village corporations may be a sleeping giant whose role in Alaska's economic destiny is not only misunderstood but also perhaps underestimated. In fact, in 2003, three village corporations were among the Top 49 Alaskan-owned and -operated companies in Alaska, and village corporations made up 23 percent of the Alaska Native corporations on the list and 6.12 percent of all of the companies on the list.
A question that came out of Commonwealth North's Urban Rural Unity Study several years ago perhaps best illustrates this: "Isn't rural economic development really the responsibility of the Native village corporations?"
The study was undertaken ...