school year to the evident disad
vantage of the Native Indian
children of Alaska, therefore
Ee It Resolved, by the Alaska
Native Brotherhood that the
United States Bureau of Educa
tion be urged to maintain a nine
months’ school year, and
Be It Further Resolved, That
each local Camp support such
school by requiring each guardi
an or parent to keep each child
’u school for the full term.
The Grand Secretary is hereby
instructed to send copies of this
resolution to the United States
Commissioner of Education, the
Honorable William John Cooper,
Washington, D. C., to the Hon.
Jonathan H. Wagner, Chief of
Die Alaska Division of the Unit
(d States Bureau of Education.
Seattle, Washington and to Mr.
Charles W .Hawkesworth. Dis
D-’Ct Superintendent of the Bu
reau of Education for South
eastern Alaska
Passed at the Cunvenr.on of
tlie Alaska Native Brotherhood,
held at Haines, Alaska, Novem
ber 22, 1929.
EXTEND SCHOOL TERM AT
SHELDON JACKSON SCHOOL
Whereas, The Alaska Native
Brotherhood, sitting in conven
tion at Haines, Alaska, realize
the importance cf the part tak
en by the Board of National Mis
sions in educating our Native
people, and
Whereas, The advancement of
our people is largely due ro the
good work carried on at the
Sheldon Jackson School, Sitka,
Alaska, and
Whereas, We have concluded
that our children cannot com
pete with the white children un
der the eight months' school
year, therefore
Be It Resoived That- we ask
that the Sheldon Jackson School
at Sitka, Alaska, adopt a nine
months school *tp?h\
Be It Further Resolved That
copies cf this resolution be sent
to the Superintendent of the
Sheldon Jackson School, and to
the Board of National Missions
of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America.
Adopted this 23rd day of No
vember 1929, by the Grand Con
vention of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood at Haines, Alaska.
SOCIAL DISEASES IN ALASKA
Whereas, Scientists and social
workers today are more and
more recognizing the great men
ace of the so-called social dis
eases, and
Whereas, Our people are not
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informed as might be desired
upon the nature and conse
quences of the said diseases, and
Whereas, Some of our own
people, both young and old, have
1 alien victims to these diseases
and caused untold miseries,
Ini gely through ignorance, to
themselves and families, and so,
indirectly to society, therefore.
Be It Resolved by the Grand
Camp of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood, that special efforts be
made to take appropriate steps
to help banish this evil through
i he local Camps in cooperation
with the Health Officials of tl-e
Territory:
Be It Further Resolved T1 iat
tuples of this resolution be sent
to the Territorial Board of
Health, Bureau of Education, and
the publications of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood.
Adopted November 23, 1929.
FOR FAITHFUL SERVICES
Whereas Our faithful Grand
President, William L. Paul, has
unceasingly carried on the pro
gram and work of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood, and
Whereas, he took up the mat
ter of dismissal of Indian chil
dren from the Ketchikan Pub
kc Schools, because they were
Indian, and
Whereas, he successfully un
dertook to defend the Constitu
tional rights of these children
and carried the case to a suc
cessful conclusion to the benefit
of the Indian race,
Now Therefore Be It Resolved,
That this Convention of the
Grand Camp of the Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood and Alaska Na
tive Sisterhood extend its thanks
and appreciation to Brother
William L. Paul, our Grand Pres
ident, and to Mrs. William L.
Paul, his helpmeet, for their ef
fort to secure to our people the
rights of liberty guaranteed un
der the Constitution of the