Feeling Trapped in Anaktuvuk Pass

This 1985 article explores the impact of ANCSA and includes an extensive interview of Glenn Fredericks. Following ANCSA, Georgetown had 28 shareholders and received $34,000 of the almost billion dollar ANCSA settlement. The settlement was accompanied by an audit requirement which would have cost the Georgetown Village Corporation $50,000.

Glenn Fredericks “quickly concluded his tiny corporation would have a hard time surviving. He convinced 10 other villages on the upper river to merge with Georgetown into the successful Kuskokwim Corporation”.

Evelyn Thomas of Sleetmute was also interviewed. Thomas “recalled the tale of an elder woman who journeyed to a place she had long pocked berries, only to be told by a homesteader that she was trespassing. “

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Citation
(1985, April 21). Anchorage Daily News , p. 144. Available from NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current