CIRI shareholder Tom Gerds celebrates his business’ second year of operation this December. In 2009, he opened Advanced Care Pet Hospital with his wife, Dr. Pamela Gerds, in St. Cloud, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Gerds recently won a Google Uptick Award from the Association of Small Business Development Centers. Learn more about the Gerds’ veterinary clinic by visiting www.advancedcarepethospital.com.
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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