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Calista Corporation (pronounced [tʃɑlɪstɑ])[1] is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Calista was incorporated in Alaska on June 12, 1972.[2] Although the Calista region is in western Alaska, Calista Corporation is headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. Calista is a for-profit corporation with 34,500 Alaska Native shareholders primarily of Yup'ik descent.[3]

The name Calista (worker) is a portmanteau of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik words cali-, meaning "to work," and -ista, meaning someone or something which does. The Yup'ik language does not have a word for "corporation".

As part of ANCSA, Calista received patent for 4,997,263 acres (20,223.21 km2) from the federal government as well as approximately $80 million, making it the second largest corporation established under ANCSA. The Calista region covers Alaska's Bethel and Kusilvak census areas and includes 56 villages.

Shareholders

Currently, Calista has over 34,500 shareholders, almost all of whom are Central Alaskan Yup'ik people, Cup'ik or Athabaskan, and most of whom still speak the Yup'ik and Cupꞌik languages and live a largely subsistence lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and gathering. At incorporation, Calista Corporation enrolled 13,303 Alaska Natives, each of whom received 100 shares of Calista stock. The total number of shareholders continues to grow due to open enrollment for descendants of original shareholders.

As an ANCSA corporation, Calista Corporation has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot legally be sold. In 2017, after a historic vote by our Shareholders, Calista Corporation joined a small but growing number of ANCSA corporations that have opened enrollment to the descendants of its original Shareholders.[4]

Lands

Calista Corporation owns about 6.5 million acres (26,00 km2) in southwestern Alaska on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and the Kuskokwim Mountains.[5] Most of this land is split estate where the village corporation owns the surface estate and Calista owns the subsurface. The region's 56 villages selected the bulk of these lands near their villages based primarily on subsistence needs. Calista's entitlement also includes 264,000264,000 acres (1,070 km2) acres of fee estate lands where Calista owns both surface and subsurface rights. Much of the fee estate entitlement is prospective for precious metal mineral resources.[6]

Because of the importance of the land to the traditional subsistence economies of the region's Yup'ik, Cup'ik, and Athabaskan residents, including the bulk of Calista's shareholders, Calista concentrated most of its land selections under ANCSA in areas surrounding the region's 56 villages.

In a land exchange with the federal government, finalized in 2001, some of Calista's surface land parcels and a portion of its subsurface estate were incorporated into the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, while preserving subsistence hunting and fishing rights.

Calista is land owner to subsurface rights from ANCSA, and holds title to the large Donlin Creek gold deposit, which is leased to Barrick Gold and NovaGold Resources.[7][8]

Business enterprises

Key Calista businesses include oil well services, telecommunication and VoIP services, secure data hosting, cybersecurity, business services, equipment leasing, computer consulting, real estate, environmental consulting, construction, marketing and advertising.[9]

Under federal law, Calista Corporation and some its majority-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and partnerships are deemed to be "minority and economically disadvantaged business enterprise[s]" (43 USC 1626(e)).[10]

Wholly owned subsidiaries

Calista Corporation's 30-plus subsidiaries involved in federal contracting, construction, engineering, oilfield services, equipment, real estate, and other services are organized in four holding lines:[11]

Bektuq Holding, LLC

  • Nordic-Calista, LLC
  • E3 Alaska, LLC
  • Qangan Lands, LLC

Calista Brice, LLC

  • Brice Inc.
  • Brice Civil Constructors Inc.
  • Brice Builders, LLC
  • Brice Environmental
  • Brice Engineering, LLC
  • Brice Equipment
  • Brice Marine
  • Brice Solutions, LLC
  • Browns Hill Quarry
  • STG, Inc.
  • STG Pacific, LLC
  • Yukon Equipment, LLC
  • Tunista Construction, LLC

Ena Holding, LLC

  • Aulukista, LLC
  • Calista Real Estate, LLC
  • Tunista, Inc.

Yulista Holding, LLC

  • Yulista Aviation, Inc.
  • Yulista Integrated Solutions, LLC
  • Y-Tech Services, Inc.
  • Yulista Tactical Services, LLC
  • Yulista Support Services, LLC
  • Tunista Services, LLC
  • Tunista Logistics Solutions, LLC
  • Chiulista Services, Inc.
  • Troy7, inc.

Joint Ventures

Calista owns joint ventures in:[12]

  • Delta EMI, LLC (25% owner of Delta Constructors, LLC)
  • Redstone Defense Systems (51% owned by Yulista Aviation)
  • Defense Systems and Solutions (51% owned by Yulista Integrated Solutions)

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Alaska Corporations Database". commerce.alaska.gov. Alaska Department of Commerce. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Calista Corporation to Hold Annual Meeting on June 3, 2022". www.CalistaCorp.com. Calista Corporation. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Calista Region". www.CalistaCorp.com. Calista Corporation. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  5. ^ "ANCSA Twelve Regions". ANCSA Regional Association. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Calista Lands". www.CalistaCorp.com. Calista Corporation. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  7. ^ Bruno, Jeff. "Donlin Gold Project". Alaska Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Donlin Gold's Reserves and Resources". NovaGold Resources Inc. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Industries and Services – Business – Calista Corporation". Calistacorp.com. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  10. ^ "Small Business Credit for Alaskan Native Corporations". federalregister.gov. Federal Register. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Calista Holding Lines and Subsidiaries". Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  12. ^ "Calista Holding Lines and Subsidiaries". Retrieved 2022-01-31.

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