BSNC’s Career Pathways Series helps showcase jobs held by successful shareholders and descendants. This series aims to raise awareness of these career options and the essential skills needed to succeed in these positions. BSNC shareholder Jenna L. Krohn joined BSNC as corporate counsel in 2021. In 2013, Krohn graduated from the University of Alaska with a...
Shareholder Richard Atuk was one of BSNC’s first employees. Today, he is involved with Kingikmiut Singers and Dancers of Anchorage and Kissaq Kingikmiurguqtuat dialect language revitalization efforts. “When we start speaking about language, we start speaking about history and culture,” said Atuk. “In the Lower 48, colonization was about taking land. In Alaska, as well...
The Peabody Museum at Harvard Seeks to Return Hair Clippings to Families and Tribes
November 22, 2022by Media
The Peabody Museum at Harvard stewards a collection of hair samples from Indigenous people around the world assembled by anthropologist George Edward Woodbury in the 1930s and donated to the Museum. The vast majority are from North America, including clippings of hair from approximately 700 Native American children attending U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. Many of...
BSNC’s media and communications team, with Yuit Communications, was honored to receive the third place Aurora award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the Public Relations Society of America – Alaska Chapter. Our 2022 Get Out the Native Vote campaign aimed to mobilize Alaska Native and American Indian voters. “Our team was honored to receive...
BSNC Donates $250,000 to Nome Community Center
October 28, 2022by Media
BSNC recently donated $250,000 to the Nome Community Center for the HomePlate Nome Apartments. The HomePlate project will include 15 studio apartments built for single occupancy, and an onsite unit for the property manager. The Project is designed to provide a path toward housing permanency for Nome’s most vulnerable, chronically homeless population. The apartments will...
BSNC Shareholder Brian Wassmann Receives AFN’s Glenn Godfrey Law Enforcement Award
October 24, 2022by Media
BSNC congratulates shareholder Brian Wassmann, originally from Nome, on receiving the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Glenn Godfrey Law Enforcement Award. This award recognizes an Alaska Native law enforcement officer, federal, state, or local, who has shown outstanding dedication to the safety of the public in any location(s) within Alaska, often requiring heroic courage in...
BSNC Shareholder Roy Ashenfelter Receives AFN’s Katie John Hunter-Fisher Award
October 24, 2022by Media
BSNC congratulates shareholder Roy Ashenfelter of White Mountain on receiving the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Katie John Hunter-Fisher Award. This award is given to an Alaska Native who exemplifies and preserves the spirit of successful subsistence hunting, trapping and sharing and our way of life. Nominees acknowledge and ensure that the next generation of...
BSNC congratulates shareholder Elizabeth Aarons on receiving the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Health Award. This award is given to an Alaska Native in the health field who has improved the health outcomes of Native peoples through their competence and commitment. Aarons was nominated by BSNC and recognized at the 2022 AFN Convention. Aarons is...
BSNC Announces 2022 Annual Meeting Election Results
October 2, 2022by Media
BSNC held its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Saturday, Oct. 1 in Nome, Alaska at the Nome Recreation Center, 208 E. 6th Ave. Shareholders voted on the election of five board directors who will serve three-year terms. Incumbents Gail R. Schubert, Louie Green Jr., Cindy Towarak Massie and Charles W. Fagerstrom were reelected and...
September Storm: Federal and State Individual Assistance
September 29, 2022by Media
Residents of the Regional Educational Attendance Areas of Bering Strait, Kashunamiut, Lower Kuskokwim and Lower Yukon who suffered property damage or loss from September’s severe storm, flooding and landslides are now eligible to apply for disaster assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), State of Alaska and the Small Business Administration. Available aid includes...