NANA Development Corporation

Three years later, in 1971 President Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which conveyed nearly 150 million acres (610,000 km2) of federal land into the hands of 12 newly created Alaska Native regional corporations.

In November 2017, the company's subsidiary, Akima LLC, fired one of its employees, Juli Briskman, after a news photographer caught her giving the finger to the presidential motorcade of Donald Trump as it passed by her.

[2] Four months after being fired, she sued the company for wrongful termination and for additional severance pay.

[citation needed] NANA Development Corporation employed approximately 15,000 employees in all 50 states and in nine different countries.

It worked primarily in the oil and gas, mining, technology, hospitality, healthcare, construction, federal contracting and tribal sectors of the economy.

NANA Development Corporation headquarters are adjacent to the Delaney Park Strip in downtown Anchorage . The building, constructed in 1969, previously housed oil company offices.