A. N. B, NOTES
A letter has just come from Kake,
Alaska, reading in part as follows:
“We have now organized the Kake
Sisterhood, or the Alaska Native
Sisterhood, of thirty members. We
hope that you will spread the news
to the Grand President Mr. Simp
son, and ask that you grant us a
charter. Will you please tell Mr.
Simpson that Kake has added one
more joint to his backbone.' The of
ficers are: Mrs. Mary Cooday, pres
ident; Mrs. Fred Wilson, vice-pres
ident, and Mrs. Edith Williams, sec
retary
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A new Camp of the Sisterhood
has been organized at Ketchikan,
Alaska. The names of the officers
will be published in the next Fish
erman. They start with nine char
ter members.
The Native Village of Kake, which
is often times held up as the orig
inator of mass-voting, of illiterate
voters, has just installed an electric
light plant of their own, and every
house in that Village will be lighte 1
by the municipal plant. To show
how little this progressive town is
understood, we will further state
that this town has its own ha1!,
measuring about 80 feet by 40 feet,
built entirely by the native citizens
there, who contributed their labor;
they own their own sawmill, their
own co-operative store, they built
their own sidewalks with lumber cut
in their own mill, and they have
their own Salvation Army Post,
which meets in a hall of their own,
and they have their Presbyterian
Church, which is presided over by
one of the citizens of the town. This
citizen is Haines DeWitt, a gradu
ate of the Sitka Training School
and of Chemawa.
* * *
The A. N. B. of Wrangell are
now on the way to securing one of
the finest Brotherhood halls. They
have purchased what was known as
the “rink” from William Lewis. This
will give the Wrangell Camp a fine
boost and many of the younger men
have now made application for mem
bership. The members have been
out logging and have repaired the
foundation to the building. Next
fall they will put a new roof on the
building.
The following Brotherhood camps
now own their own halls, all of
them of dimensions of about 80 feet
by 40 feet. Sitka, Douglas, Juneau,
Angoon, Yakutat, Kake and Wrang
ell. In the other towns, namely:
Bay View, Hydaburg, Hoonah and
Kasaan, the Brotherhood uses the
town hall, on the theory that all
citizens of those towns belong to
the Brotherhood and while the legal
title is not in the Brotherhood at
the same time it belongs to them as
citizens of the respective towns. The
progress of the Natives in the First
Division is very encouraging. The
schools are being well supported.
* * * * *
Some people decry the making
elective the office of Commissioner
of Education. They claim that this
will put it into politics. When Hen
derson appeared before the legisla
tive committee with a bill which
would prevent any Indian child from
having opportunity of going to the
public school and in the same bill
gave himself a raise of a thousand
dollars a year for so doing, was he
putting his office into politics or
taking it out of politics ? The
trouble with some politicians is that
they are poor sports—they make
rules for their game and when they
get beat at it they yell “Unfair”
and want the rules changed.
* * * * *
In the solving of this school ques
tion it is well to think of the Pre
amble to our constitution and also
the Golden Rule. What was it about
Liberty, Equality and Justice? Was
that not intended for the poor In
dian who has been insulted am!
wronged from the time of Columbus
to the present day? And is the
Golden Rule not for the Red Race
when it says, “Do unto others as
ye would have them do unto you.”
* * * *
When Christopher Columbus first
landed on the American Continent,
he fell on his knees and then on the
Aboriginees. The remnants of the
old Shackleford gang at Juneau are
trying to fall on the Aboriginees but
because they cannot make a success
of it they want decent voters to
help them out in their crooked game.
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The Troy-Faulkner brand of poli
WILLIAM L. PAUL
Lawyer
205 Bank Building
Ketchikan — Alaska
tics must go. Realizing that they
are losing caste with the voting
public who are receiving the sup
port of the Indians of this division,
they want to create dissension bj
yelling “literacy test.”
* * * * *
A recent article by Jawn Troy
which was really the Empire’s reply
to a speech made hy Hazeltine, pro
hibition director, condones the vio
lation of the Prohibition Law. He
claims that because it is impossible
to drive the violators out of busi
ness, it should be allowed to con
tinue.
* * * *
The illiterate towns of kake, An
goon, Bayview, Hydaburg have very
little trouble with violation of the
liquor laws of the United States. The
territory does not think enough of
these thousand or more people to give
them a commissioner or deputy mar
shal. If the highly literate town of
Juneau wherein the Empire tries to
sway public opinion were half as re
spectful of the laws of the land it
would be a mighty fine town to live
in. Let us have more of this kind
of illiteracy.
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