Thursday, September 2, 2010
Interview
I interviewed my grandma the other day and it was quite interesting. They first had meetings in colleges dorms and living rooms and then the leader ship started to form called the AFN. She did went to the first few meetings. She told me that they started the meetings because when the oil was discovered they knew that the white people would take it away. She knew William Hensley, Sara Fema Shane, and Ruby Tensy (I'm not sure how to spell their names so you can correct me if I spelled it wrong). When she went to a restaurant called Country Kitchen which was also called Sugar Shack the manager/cook told her and her friends to sign up for Anchorage because since they were going to stay in Anchorage and not go back to the villages they might as well sign up. So my grandma sign herself, my mom Iva, and her nephew and now they are shareholders of CIRI. My grandma also told me that in the papers it said that having fedral owned lands is illegal. So now I'm curious about that topic and I hope you guys will too. Anyways when ANCSA passed she wasn't happy when they got 44 million acres after all the fighting they did. That was it for the interview.
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Do you think you can get information on what types of things they were talking about? What disputes were there, did it go pretty smoothly? I think it's really cool that your grandma was there for that and that we can ask her what it was like and what happened.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard about that before. That federal owned lands is illegal, I might look into that tonight.
Do you know how much land they lost? What lands did her people still own after ANCSA?
i have to agree with you but at least we have land that legally belongs to us. and for that were better off than some. and just to say real quick i think that that is cool your grandma knew all of those people. but i think that we deserve even more land from the government because it is after all ours by right. and we had suffered for aboout 200 years for only 44 million acres and whatever amount of money.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, your grandma was convinced to join the 13th regional corporation, which is designed for people who didn't live in state. this is the reason, If i understand right, that your grandmother did not get any land. Since that regional corporation was not living on the land, it did not recieve any land. I think that all people in the 13th regional corporation should choose if they want to join another corporation.
ReplyDeleteI think that was awesome that your grandmother knew all these leaders and people who fought for our land! Jonah, CIRI isn't the 13th Regional Corporation, CIRI stands for Cook Inlet Regional, Inc. You're grandma chose well since at one point CIRI sold one of their subsidiaries and managed to provide $50,000 to each shareholder because of some smart decisions!
ReplyDeleteOn the federal lands part, I'm not exactly sure what you are referring too or talking about.