In Sisterhood, the first book-length history of Alaska's Tlingit women, recounts the remarkable lives of the women of Alaska Native Sisterhood's Camp 2, who grew up in towns and villages along Alaska's southeast coast, fishing in canoes with their grandmothers and helping their families gather seaweed, pick berries, and smoke fish.

If caught speaking Tlingit in school, their mouths would be taped shut, their hair tied in white rags, and their hands beaten with wooden rulers. They suffered ongoing discrimination, as schools and hospitals in the Territory of Alaska remained segregated, and signs prohibiting Natives from entering could be found hanging from businesses well into the 1940s.

Since the founding of their organization in 1926, the women of Juneau's Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 2, alongside their brothers in the Alaska Native Brotherhood, have fought for equal education, health care, and voting rights, and helped to win an historic settlement of claims to their traditional lands. In these pages, the women of Camp 2, and three men with close ties to the organization, tell the story of how the Alaska Native Sisterhood touched their lives and helped to change the course of Alaska's history.

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Friday Oct 3 - 4:30-7PM
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