Willie Kasayulie, Board Chair
Storyknife, November/December 2025 edition
As an Alaska Native corporation, our Mission is rooted in providing for you, the Shareholders. We provide distributions and professional opportunities. Additionally, for the continuation of a successful corporation we offer open enrollment for Descendants of original Shareholders to become part of the corporation.
We would like to welcome 830 new Calista Corporation Shareholders through this year’s fall stock issuance! Our youngest Shareholder was born in August 2025, and over 100 are under one year of age.
The number of Shareholders tripled over the last eight years, growing from 13,000 Original Shareholders before enrollment to 39,100 Shareholders after this fall’s stock issuance. Calista remains the largest Alaska Native corporation by number of Shareholders.
Eligible Descendants who completed an enrollment document with all the required documentation by the August 31 deadline received Class C shares in Calista’s 18th stock issuance this fall.
Open enrollment began in 2015 when Shareholders voted and passed a binding resolution to issue stock to Descendants of original Calista Shareholders and to missed enrollees who could have received original Calista shares but did not. The first round of open enrollment stock was issued in December 2017.
Grow with your corporation and we will grow with you. Shareholders receive benefits through distributions, scholarships, internships, work hire preference, state and federal funding from advocacy for community and shareholder needs, and many business opportunities.
Do you know of a recent birth in the family? Or someone who has yet to enroll? Remind your family to start the enrollment process to meet the mid-January 2026 deadline for the next Calista stock issuance.