Скачать или смотреть A Traditional Literary History of the Alaska Native Brotherhood & Sisterhood

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on the literary history of the Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) and Sisterhood (ANS) as part of a series on Southeast Alaska Native history in honor of Native American Heritage Month.

The talk, A Traditional Literary History of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood: Writing Alaska Native Solidarity into American Modernity, will be given by Michael P. Taylor, Ph.D., assistant professor of English and associate director of American Indian Studies, Brigham Young University.

On November 5, 1912, eleven Alaska Native men and one Alaska Native woman came together to form the ANB. Two years later, eight Alaska Native women organized the ANS. Early on, the brotherhood and sisterhood collaborated to promote Alaska Native solidarity, fight for U.S. citizenship, desegregate public education, ensure economic equality, and protect traditional rights to Alaska Native lands and waters, Taylor wrote.

This presentation turns to the ANB’s monthly newspaper, The Alaska Fisherman (1923–1932), to demonstrate how the ANB/ANS navigated the challenging sociopolitical realities brought on by increased U.S.-settler expansion by adapting longstanding Alaska Native literary traditions. Such literary adaptations were not an abandonment of traditional practices and protocols; rather, The Alaska Fisherman offers a continuation of traditional literary commitments that served to protect and sustain Alaska Native lands and waters into American modernity.

The lecture is scheduled at noon Alaska time, Wednesday, Nov. 10. All lectures will be streamed at 12 pm to the Sealaska Heritage YouTube channel. A live Q&A session will follow the lecture.

Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: https://www.sealaskaheritage.org/
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