Alaska Native and business leader used beautiful style for success
Morris Thompson was one of Alaska’s most prominent Native and business leaders.
“A really big Alaskan tree fell today,” Byron Mallott, who recently stepped down as executive director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.., Told the Anchorage Daily News.
Thompson, 61, his wife, Thelma and daughter Sheryl were vacationing in Mexico.
Thompson retired last month as president and chief executive officer of Doyon Ltd.., A Native corporation formed in 1971 as part of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. The corporation has 12.5 million acres of land, making it the largest private landowner in the United States.
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