Native Corporations and Arctic Drilling
This chapter considers the impact of Native-owned corporations on the Arctic Refuge debate. It traces the history of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)—a controversial federal law passed in 1971 that established Native corporations as the instruments for land claims rather than tribal g...
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crunivncaropr:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469661100.003.0016 2024-06-09T07:41:56+00:00 Native Corporations and Arctic Drilling Dunaway, Finis 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469661100.003.0016 en eng University of North Carolina Press Defending the Arctic Refuge page 138-145 ISBN 9781469661100 9781469661124 book-chapter 2021 crunivncaropr https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469661100.003.0016 2024-05-14T13:13:08Z This chapter considers the impact of Native-owned corporations on the Arctic Refuge debate. It traces the history of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)—a controversial federal law passed in 1971 that established Native corporations as the instruments for land claims rather than tribal governments. The settlement was explicitly tied to an assimilationist agenda, imposing a corporate model on Indigenous communities. The chapter explains how the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the Kaktovic Iñupiat Corporation (both created following ANCSA) have shaped the Arctic Refuge debate and contributed to a simple media framing of the fight as a story of Gwich’in versus Iñupiat. The chapter complicates and challenges this narrative by including voices of Iñupiat, such as Robert Thompson, opposed to drilling and of other Indigenous critics of ANCSA, such as Faith Gemmill. It explains how leaders of Native corporations often present themselves as the voices and representatives of their communities. In addition, the chapter discusses Thomas Berger’s study of the effects of ANCSA, based on testimony from more than sixty villages across Alaska. Book Part Arctic Arctic Gwich’in Alaska UNC Press (The University of North Carolina) Arctic 138 145 |
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This chapter considers the impact of Native-owned corporations on the Arctic Refuge debate. It traces the history of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)—a controversial federal law passed in 1971 that established Native corporations as the instruments for land claims rather than tribal governments. The settlement was explicitly tied to an assimilationist agenda, imposing a corporate model on Indigenous communities. The chapter explains how the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the Kaktovic Iñupiat Corporation (both created following ANCSA) have shaped the Arctic Refuge debate and contributed to a simple media framing of the fight as a story of Gwich’in versus Iñupiat. The chapter complicates and challenges this narrative by including voices of Iñupiat, such as Robert Thompson, opposed to drilling and of other Indigenous critics of ANCSA, such as Faith Gemmill. It explains how leaders of Native corporations often present themselves as the voices and representatives of their communities. In addition, the chapter discusses Thomas Berger’s study of the effects of ANCSA, based on testimony from more than sixty villages across Alaska. |
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