KCSM France 24 News September 19, 2013
In 1912, officially organized and developed the leadership of Southeast Alaska and for alaska natives out of that group. The alaska native brotherhood is where the nucleus of the native power was organized, where it was developed, and where the leadership came from. The alaska native brotherhood endorsed the statehood act. They wanted statehood because it would give them a larger voice, they felt, with representatives back in congress and better control and out from under the bias thumbs. People dont realize how federalized we were in rural alaska, the native community under the bia. Narrator ...
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