(Anchorage, AK) Calling it misguided and wrong, Native American leaders criticized
legislation introduced by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) that would effectively dismantle
Alaska Native Corporations’ (ANCs) access to federal contracting through the Small
Business Administration’s Native 8(a) program.
“It is clear Sen. McCaskill has turned a blind eye to the progressive policies of her
predecessors allowing Native people a chance [...]
When 33-year old Kari Sherod decided to go back to work a year and half ago, she
looked for something she could do out of her Kodiak home so she wouldn’t be far from
her young daughters. Sherod applied to Afognak Native Corporation’s Small Business
Growth Program which awards four shareholders up to five-thousand dollars each year
to start [...]
NANA Regional Corporation has done something no other Alaska Native Corporation
(ANC) has ever accomplished: Winning the National Center of American Indian
Enterprise Development’s (NCAIED) Corporate Advocate of the Year Award.
The NANA honor was announced at the center’s 25th annual Reservation Economic
Summit and American Indian Business Trade Fair in Las Vegas.
NANA Regional President and CEO Marie Greene [...]
Source: Sioux City Journal
WINNEBAGO, Neb. – Ho-Chunk Inc. CEO Lance Morgan will testify Thursday before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., about the importance of a Small Business Administration program for American Indian tribes, according to a release from Ho-Chunk.
The 2:15 p.m. webcast testimony will be available at indian.senate.gov/hearings.
The topic is “Promise [...]
By Sarah Lukin on Roll Call
Rep. Bennie Thompson’s positions regarding Alaska Native Corporations reflect a core misunderstanding regarding the role and mission of these vitally important native enterprises (“ANCs Should Be Held to Same 8(a) Standard,” March 21).
In his call for ANCs to abide by the same award standards as other 8(a) companies, the Mississippi [...]
Three of the nation’s leading Native American organizations today expressed collective concern over new regulations by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that could significantly impact Native Enterprise participation in the 8(a) Business Development Program and restrict benefits to distressed Native communities.
Native groups issuing joint reaction to the SBA’s regulations include the National Congress of American [...]
This rule makes changes to the regulations governing the section 8(a) Business Development (8(a) BD) program, the U.S. Small Business
Administration’s (SBA or Agency) size regulations, and the regulations affecting Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs). It is the first comprehensive revision to the 8(a) BD program in more than ten years. Some of the changes involve technical [...]
CCI Group, LLC, a construction subsidiary of Bristol Bay Native Corporation, says its performance on federal stimulus contracts at Fort Wainwright near Fairbanks has received outstanding performance ratings from the government, and that it is doing exactly what the work is intended to do: create local jobs.
CCI Group is responding to an erroneous report by [...]
ANCHORAGE, AK (January 27, 2011): Afognak Native Corporation (Afognak) expressed criticism over a recently published ProPublica story containing misleading information regarding Alutiiq Manufacturing Contractors’ (AMC) work on a federal building contract in Boston, MA. AMC is a subsidiary of Afognak. The story inappropriately targets AMC and several other Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) who [...]
Source: National Congress of American Indians
Speech to be broadcast live online at NCAI.org and on radio stations around Indian Country, from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, January 27, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. (est), the President of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), Jefferson Keel, will deliver the annual State of Indian Nations address. [...]
