CIRI shareholder Clare Swan and her husband Van recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. The couple was married on Aug. 3, 1950. They met in Anchorage when Van was in the Army, then lived in the Lower 48 before returning to Alaska. Clare served on the CIRI Board from 1991 to 2006 and was named Board Chair for Cook Inlet Tribal Council in 2008. She was also Chair of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe.
Mission
The mission of CIRI is to promote the economic and social well-being and Alaska Native heritage of our Shareholders, now and into the future, through prudent stewardship of the company’s resources, while furthering self-sufficiency among CIRI Shareholders and their families.
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Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) is one of 12 regional corporations established in Alaska by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. CIRI is owned by nearly 9,500 Shareholders, primarily of Athabascan, Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yup’ik, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Aleut/Unangax descent.
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