ANB/ANS Grand Camp Convention
Alaska Native Brotherhood & Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 14 are joined by Camp 15 Saxman to celebrate!
"Grand Camp, a gathering of all the delegates from the communities across Southeast, is about start in our very own landless community of Kichx̱áan (Ketchikan).
The Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) and the Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) are powerful civil rights organizations who advocate for Indigenous rights within Southeast Alaska. ANB was founded in 1912, and ANS was founded in 1915. The organizations were a big part of advocating for equal rights and ending Jim Crowe laws by helping to pass the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945.
They were also a part, along with other Alaska Native entities, in laying the foundation of decades of legal battles that grew into the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971, which is the legislation we are trying to amend and make right to include our five landless communities.
Many ancestors have fought to bring this legislation to where it is today. Many of their descendants are still fighting. As the bill moves through congress and our people come together, let's continue to remind leadership that this is but a bookmark in our story, and that our totem poles have been chapters long before stories were written in English."
