Shee Atiká is a private for-profit corporation, based in Sitka, Alaska and organized in 1974 under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971. ANCSA created 13 regional corporations, more than 200 village corporations, but only four urban corporations, of which Shee Atiká is one.
These ANCSA corporations, each wholly independent, are linked by a common history and various provisions of the act. ANCSA corporations like Shee Atiká are eligible to qualify subsidiaries under the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program. This program is designed to use Federal prime contracts to help minority owned companies grow, mature and become competitive with similar firms.
It is our mission to “preserve and enhance our culture for all generations of shareholders, and to provide benefits to shareholders consistently and on an equitable basis”.
*Shee Atiká is a modern spelling of the original Tlingit world for Sitka Kwáan. A kwáan is vaguely akin to tribe, but is more accurately defined as a geographical area where several clans lived in close association with one another.