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Traditional culture meets global international economic development at the Bering Straits Native Corporation. The collection of tribes plays a key role in the Port of Nome that is working to develop the nation’s first deepwater port in the Arctic. It is among the big — and small — economic development visions for Indigenous people in the Arctic region. We’ll hear about those opportunities as well as some concerns about balancing financial and traditional environmental well-being being discussed at the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska.
GUESTS
Haven Harris (enrolled tribal member of the Nome Eskimo Community), senior vice president of growth and strategy for the Bering Straits Native Corporation
Edward Alexander (Gwich’in), co-councilor for Gwich’in Council International
Rachel Kallander, founder and CEO of Arctic Encounter Symposium
Kuno Fencker (Inuit), member of the parliament of Greenland
Haven Harris talking for people when he hasn’t lived there since he was a teenager is insane. Saying “Most people in the region are for Graphite One” when every BSNC meeting includes shareholders speaking against it and nobody speaking for it is so disgusting and misleading. Please don’t let people like him speak for us. He is a disgrace to our community.