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Well, once they set up, once a corporation board sets up its corporation with its mission
and purpose and its organization kind to do business. They’re under the Alaskan statutes
have to report their earnings and try to do everything they can to meet their mission
and goals and objectives that they set out each year. So that's primarily what they do.
They also have a responsibility to the average shareholder in rural Alaska, and that's to
make sure they're represented on corporation board and their views are heard. And I don't
really know how much that is taking place. There are many shareholders that don't have
the corporate view and the profit view in their mind because they haven't benefited
from it. So they should be able to talk to board members, board members should make themselves
available to shareholders so they can talk to them about their feelings of corporations
and how they work. I believe that the officers and corporation
board members have a moral responsibility besides a legal fiduciary responsibility just
to the corporations, shareholders and people of making sure they do things on their part
that are right and that are going to be of benefit to those Native people where they
evolved from. So it's, it's different from a regular corporation. There's more of a responsibility
there, I believe. And, but it's up to the elders and all shareholders to have that discussion
with board members and officers. You have responsibility not only to do the corporation
work and everything but to hear us and hear our concerns about our life and our future
which is is your life and your future too. So there's a moral, cultural responsibility
there that's different, yeah.