Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Descendant Spotlight: Rosemary Berg
Originally from Point Hope, Rosemary Berg isn’t your typical beauty pageant contestant – and that suits her just fine. Initially, the half Inupiaq, half African-American ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Olive Blumenstein
An uprooted childhood, a Navy career fueled by wanderlust, family lost and found – Olive Blumenstein’s life reads like the most incredible fiction.
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Storme Webber
In many ways, CIRI shareholder Storme Webber defies categorization. A mixed-race woman of Aleut, African-American and Choctaw descent, she is a poet, playwright, educator and ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Sabrina Walker
The first time she ran the 16-mile Lost Lake Run, CIRI shareholder Sabrina Walker (Tlingit) was greeted by a face at each half-mile marker. The ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
CIRI’s Oldest Living Shareholder Turning 100
“It’s not your nationality that counts as much as it is your character and your personality.” These were a teacher’s words of wisdom to CIRI ...
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Shareholder and Descendant Spotlight
Shareholder Spotlight: Nikki Graham
CIRI shareholder Nikki Graham hadn’t even been to her first meeting of the Alaska Native Professional Association (ANPA) when one of the organization’s directors encouraged ...
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