Bering Straits Native Corporation, or BSNC, 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. Bering Straits Native Corporation was incorporated in Alaska on June 23, 1972. Headquartered in Nome, Alaska, Bering Straits Native Corporation is a for-profit corporation with about 6,700 Alaska Native shareholders primarily of Inupiat, Siberian Yupik, and Yup'ik descent.
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