Alaska Native Cooperatives Will
Incorporate Under Territorial Law
(Daily Alaska Empire)
Juneau, Aug. 21 — A new plan of operation for the
Alaska Native Industries Cooperative Assn. (ANICA)
and Alaska Native Arts and Crafts ,ANAC) came out
of the Juneau meeting, called by Hugh Wade, area dir
ector of ANS, between representatives of the coopera
tives, representatives of the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C., and the ANS executives.
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E. J. Utz, assistant commission
er, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and
Albert Huber, chief of the branch
of credit, Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, both of Washington, D.C.,
are in Alaska to assist the native
cooperatives in making plans for
reorganization as corporations un
der territorial laws.
Following meetings in Juneau
which were concluded Saturday,
Utz and Huber left Juneau Mon
day and this week are visiting the
four native-owned canneries in
southeast Alaska at Klawock,
Hood Bay, Kake and Hydaburg.
Out of the meetings in Juneau
which were called by ANS Area
Director Hugh Wade, came a new
plan for the operation of the Al
aska Native Industries Coopera
tive (ANICA) and Alaska Native
Arts and Crafts (ANAC).
ANS Loan Paid
Timing of the call for a meet
ing was determined by the fact
that ANICA, the cooperative buy
ing organization which has head
quarters in Seattle and is owned
jointly by 32 native, village
owned stores in the Interior, has
paid in full the $500,000 loaned
to ANICA by the ANS in 1947 to
get the cooperative started.
Though final payment of the
loan was not due until Oct. 1952,
the last $250,000 due the ANS
was paid in July.
“Problem before the meeting
was to establish the status of the
cooperative members now that
their loan from the government
is paid in full,” Wade said.
Meeting with the men from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs and lo
cal ANS representatives were Ab
raham Lincoln, White Mountain,
president of the board of direc
tors, ANICA; Alfred Mazonna of
Wales, and Paul Tiulana of King
Island, members of the board;
L. C. Peters, ANICA’S manager,
and ANICA Attorney W. L. Gib
bon, Seattle.
The repayment of the loan
ahead of time was a real accom
plishment, Wade said, and much
credit is due the board of direc
tors of the native villages and Mr.
Peters.
ANICA Now on Its Own
The plan worked out among
those at the meetings was the
manner in which the native co
operatives should assume respon
sibility for running their own
businesses—the manner in which
they could cut loose from the gov
ernment.
ANICA, which in the past was
operated as a cooperative associa
tion under the Secretary of the
Interior, now will be set up as an
independent cooperative corpora
tion under the territorial law,
Wade explained. Principal place
of business will be Juneau, but
operation headquarters will con
tinue to be Seattle.
“This change, which was de
sired by the Eskimos and natives,
is evidence of their wish to be
come independent of the federal
bureaus and become a part of the
territorial government,” Wade
said. “This change to an incor
porated status was urged by the
Alaska Native Service and is fur
ther evidence on the part of our
office to urge the natives to as
sume more responsibility in the
management of their own affairs.”
ANAC Cooperative Planned
A similar arrangement was
made for ANAC.
The plan is to urge the native
villages that have been supplying
the majority of arts and crafts to
the Arts and Crafts Clearing
House operated in Juneau for sev
eral years, to incorporate a coop
erative marketing company under
territorial law and to become an
independent company to handle
the marketing of all native arts
and crafts in Alaska.
Under this plan, ANAC would
incorporate with Juneau its prin
cipal place of business and place
of operation.
The native villages would man
age the operation of the market
ing store through a manager se
lected by the native villages, and
thus become independent of the
federal government.
Under the new establishment,
the Alaska Native Service would
act only in an advisory capacity.
This new marketing organization
would not require any govern
ment financing.
“This is only the first step in
the direction of turning over the
management of the native-owned
cooperatives to the natives—with
a minimum of government con
trols,” the area director said.
“It is the hope of Dillon Meyer,
commissioner of Indian affairs,
that as soon as the cannery loans
on the four native-owned canner
ies are paid, that those villages
will take action similar to that
taken by ANICA and ANAC.
“While visiting Klawock, Kake,
Hydaburg and Hood Bay this
week, Mr. Utz and Mr. Huber
will urge the native villages to
begin to plan toward independent
operation,” Wade said.
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The fifth native-owned cooper
ative cannery in southeast Alaska
at Metlakatla has been complete
ly on its own with all loans paid
j up for the last five years, accord
I ing to Mr. Wade.
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