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81 Miss. L.J. 813 (2011-2012)
A Corporate Culture - The Environmental Justice Challenges of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

handle is hein.journals/mislj81 and id is 821 raw text is: A CORPORATE CULTURE? THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CHALLENGES OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT INTRODUCTION ................................ .....813 I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ANCSA AND THE CREATION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CORPORATIONS.................814 II. ANALYSIS ...........................................819 A. Theory: An Imperfect Solution? Native Corporations and Procedural Justice....................819 1. Board of Directors Composition and Village Access to Decision Making ..... .......820 2. Proxies and Afterborns ................. ......822 3. Village Corporations vs. Regional Corporations................................826 B. Practice: Development Decisions in Action.... .....827 1. Mining: Red Dog Mine, NANA, and Kivalina. ................................827 2. Coal Extraction, Timber Sales, and Inland and Offshore Oil Drilling: Possibilities for Future Study................................834 CONCLUSION: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND REDUX, OR, WHOSE FAULT IS THIS, ANYWAY? ..........................837 INTRODUCTION The jurisdictional status enjoyed by Alaska Natives in the last fifty years has differed from that of most Native American groups in this country. In lieu of a reservation system, with tribal sovereignty over each reservation, a 1971 federal act gave Alaska Natives forty-four million acres of land dispersed throughout the state, to be administered by a series of regional Native-run corporations. The Act creating this corporation-based system led to arguably a more equitable settlement with a Native population 813

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