FROM THE EDITOR.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: The Alaska Native corporations formed by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

In my office in Midtown Anchorage I have a limited but important library. Most of it is the managing editor's archive, which has almost every issue we have published since our inception. The few that are missing I plan to pilfer from the larger Alaska Business Publishing Co. archive in the future after it has been fully digitized--except for one issue. Despite checking everyone's offices (sometimes with their permission), I've never been able to locate an individual copy of one of our older magazines: February 1988. We have a copy that's bound into a larger volume, which is incredibly fortunate, but that little piece of our history is gone, and the archive in my office will remain one issue short for as long as it exists.

Also on those shelves are various books my predecessors and I have collected over the years, such as editing handbooks, historic texts, and style guides. I've personally added two art books: Menadelook: An Inupiat Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 and The Alaskan Paintings of Fred Machetanz. Each was a gift from a leader of one of the twelve Alaska Native regional corporations. They both feature art with themes of transition and change, acting as documentation of how "what was" changed to "what is."

Anyone who has interacted with a representative of the Alaska Native corporations formed by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) knows that these organizations take their dual mandate to support their regions and shareholders through profitable enterprise seriously. They apply it to all their decision-making, whether acquiring a company, entering a new market, planning a cultural program, or funding a community project.

The leaders of ANCSA corporations know how critical it is to fund dividends, elder benefits, and scholarship programs; create jobs for their shareholders, other Alaskans, and people globally, and...