CIRI descendant Raven Gene of Colorado reunited with his biological family when he returned to Alaska on Nov. 18. Raven had been adopted when he was 2 months old. He found his older brother, CIRI descendant Loren Hovis Jr., on Facebook. Raven found an aunt that lived in Oregon, and two more aunts who lived in Oklahoma. Raven’s biological father, CIRI shareholder Loren Hovis Sr. of Anchorage, spent 34 years looking for his own biological father, reuniting with him in Oregon in 1992. Raven met his father, older brother, sisters, uncle and close friends of the family when he returned to Alaska.
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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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