Alaska Native Brotherhood & Alaska Native Sisterhood in Southeast Alaska
The History of the Alaska Native Brotherhood & Alaska Native Sisterhood in Southeast Alaska 1 Geography of Alaska 2 Alaska Native Groups 3 The ANB & ANS Began in Sitka, Alaska in 1912 The Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall was built in 1914 on the waterfront in Sitka. It is now a national historic landmark. ANB Hall 4 The Founding Fathers of the Alaska Native Brotherhood - Peter Simpson, Tsimshian Canadian (“Father of ANB”) Rise of the ANB - Ralph Young, Sitka - Chester Worthington, Wrangell - James C. Johnson, Klawock - Paul Liberty, Sitka - Seward Kunz, Juneau - Frank Mercer, Juneau - Frank Price, Sitka - George Field, Klawock - Eli Katanook, Angoon - James Watson, Juneau - William Hobson, Angoon - Andrew Wanamaker, Sitka ANB & ANS Constitution Preamble The purpose of this organization shall be to assist and encourage the Native in his advancement from his Native state to his place among the cultivated races of the world, to oppose, to discourage, and to overcome the narrow injustices of race prejudice, to commemorate the fine qualities of the Native races of North America, to preserve their history, lore, art and virtues, to cultivate the morality, education, commerce, and civil government of Alaska, to improve individual and municipal health and laboring conditions, and to create a true respect in Natives and in other persons with whom they deal for the letter and spirit of the Declaration Independence and the Constitution and laws of the United States. 6 The Alaska Native Sisterhood - Promoting Alaska Native Women’s Rights since 1926 Panel Discusses Alaska Native Sisterhood Elizabeth Peratrovich - Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand President and Civil Rights Leader 7 ANB & ANS Political and Cultural Leaders William Paul (1885-1977) - An attorney, legislator, and political activist from the Tlingit nation of Southeastern Alaska.
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