In Sisterhood

Subtitled: The History of Camp 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood In this first book-length history of Alaska's Tlingit women, the remarkable lives of the women of Alaska Native Sisterhood's Camp 2 are recounted. These women 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. These women 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. 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.