Thursday, November 17, 2011

Alaska Native Non profit corporations should be in complete control of government benefits to their tribal members

Back in 1996 I received a letter from the late Alaska US Senator Ted Stevens.  He suggested that Alaska Native non profit corporations should administer all government benefits.  Most US Senators have decided that tribes should not be able to administer.  Let's honor the late Alaska US Senator Ted Stevens and adopt this idea.  They can include the government assistance with the tribal shareholder payouts.  Alaskan native people can better decide what their members then some bureaucrat in Washington, DC. Please call your US Senator and say you want the Ted Stevens Alaska Native Benefits Responsibility act.  The government benefits would only go to the 13 regional Alaska Native Corporations who would decide to administer them themselves or would delegate that to native corporations in their jurisdiction.  

Example I have a Alaskan native father figure who is a shareholder of Akhiok-Kaguyak Incorporated how his regional native corporation is Koniag.  Koniag has contracted the Kodiak Area Native Association to deal with Kodiak Island tribal benefits.  He would go to Kodiak Area Native Association to apply for government benefits.  This will allow Alaska tribes to dictate the social welfare needs of their people.

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