CIRI descendant Daniel Becker was one of 80 national winners of a 2008 Morris K. Udall scholarship. He was awarded the scholarship based on an essay about the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and his personal family connection to the Act. The annually awarded scholarship supports students who will go into careers in the environment, or Native America/Alaska Native students who plan to work on tribal policy issues. Daniel is a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. and is a Native American Studies major.
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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