Sharing Our Knowledge

Index of Andrew Hope Newsletters

An Index of Newsletters Produced and Published by Andrew Hope III, from 1978 to 1995

This index of 20 newsletters that Andy Hope produced over a 17 year period include several dozen articles and essays, many written by Andy and all edited by him, revealing the depth and breadth of his interests: Indigenous culture, Alaska tribes, modern Alaska Native history, contemporary politics, education, book reviews, poetry, and music.

Of interest to historians: the article by Frank O. Williams (see #7) about Native health pro- grams; the interview by Andy Hope with Judson Brown (#13), a Tlingit leader who discusses his attendance at the 1929 ANB/ANS Grand Camp that initiated Alaska Native claims and at the meetings that led to the formation of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska; and the articles by Jim Bowen about the origins of Alaska Native judicial systems (numbers 11, 12, 14, and 18).

Beginning in 1993, Andy was the principal organizer of the Sharing Our Knowledge conferences (see www.SharingOurKnowledge.org) until his death of cancer at age 58 in 2008. Relevant to that legacy are the reports about two “lost” clan conferences (aka, Sharing Our Knowledge) for which there are no video recordings and little documentation. These were held in Sitka 1995 (see: #19, November 1995), and in Ketchikan/Saxman 1996 (#20 November 1996).

Through the 1980s Andy was general manager of the Sitka Community Association (now Sitka Tribe of Alaska). During the same period he served as a director for Shee Atiká Inc., so it comes as no surprise that two of these publications (numbers 2 & 6) served as annual reports for both organizations. Through succeeding years, Andy was regional coordinator of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative of the University of Alaska.

Andrew Hope III was in the vanguard of those leading the way to what is now widely considered a renaissance of Tlingit culture. He was a mentor to many including Peter Metcalfe who compiled and indexed this record of newsletters. Any suggested changes, additions, or constructive com- ments can be shared via peterMmetcalfe@gmail.com

A note about the newsletter publications that follow: Most of the pdfs were produced several years ago thanks to Linda Wynne of Sealaska Heritage Institute. The typographical oddities and typos that will be found are not in the originals and were due to the limits of the scanning technology then in use.

INDEX of Publications by Andrew Hope III (1978 to 1995)

  1. Raven’s Bones Journal February 1978, special edition
    • What is Raven’s Bones Foundation?
    • Shaman, poem by Robert Davis
    • No-No Boy, novel by John Okada, reviewed. The novel is about the Asian-Amerian experience
    • Two poems by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
    • “Jimmy George” and “King of the Island” – poems by Andrew Hope
    • Letter to Andy & Sister Hope from Victor Cruz, about his upcoming novel “By Lingual Whales”
  2. NEEK News of the Sitka Community Association, Vol. 1/No.1/1979
    • Shee Atika Corporation Shee Atika Lodge Shee Atika’s LandsStockholder Information Scholarship Committee
    • Announcement: Southeast Alaska Native Cultural Festival January 24-26, 1980
    • Housing In Sitka
    • Modern Tribes, by Andrew Hope
    • Clan Names And Community Houses
    • L’ux Yatx’I (Mt. Edgecumbe Landmark)
  3. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 1/No. 2/ 1980
    • Dedication of a Tlingit Crest
    • Book Reviews: Atitlan/Alashka, by Andy Hope Selected Poems And Prose By Nathaniel Tarn, New Poems By Na- thaniel Tarn And Janet Rodney + Nora Dauenhauer Poems
    • Notes On Tlingits (Excerpts) By Ivan Veniaminoff
    • Biography.· Ivan Veniaminoff (Bishop Innocent), From: History Of Education In Alaska By Tikhon I. Laurischeff
    • Several Poems Throughout, by Nora Dauenhauer
    • Egg Boat, essay by Nora Dauenhauer
    • RESOLUTION NO. 79-41, TITLE: Publication of Tlingit & Haida Oral History Material For Posterity.
  4. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 1/No. 3/ July 1980
    • Alaska Reorganization Act
    • The Clary Institute
    • The Continuing Story of Sitka Housing
    • Buy Indian and Indian Preference
    • The Elbridge Warren Merrill-Photographic Collection
    • Indian Sovereignty
    • 1979-80 Higher Education Program Graduates
    • Free Vocational Training Opportunities (list)
    • Mary Anne Navitsky Selected as Summer Trainee
    • Sitka Student [Roger Frank] Picked For Concert Tour
    • Shee Atika, Incorporated Sixth Annual Meeting [April 5, 1980]
  5. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 1, No. 4/August, 1980
    • Rootless Primitives Need Land Masters [quotes by Alan Ginsburg, Gary Snyder
    • Election Alert
    • Kodiak Is Camp No. 80!
    • Why Sitka Needs Nelson Frank
    • Attention Republicans [racist screed printed in the Alaska Daily Empire, April 5, 1924]
    • Right to Vote: Status Finally Established [Reprinted from The Alaska Fisherman, January 1924]
    • D-2 [ANILCA] Remains Up in the Air
    • An Overview of ANB History by Herbert Hope, ANB Grand President
    • Profile: Ben Grussendorf
    • Learning to Be Rich, by Representative Richard I. Eliason
    • Profile: Alan Dill
    • Jobs, Education, Housing, and the D-2 Bill
    • A Compromise of Difference by John Brady, May 2, 1894
    • Alaska and the Senate, by Clark Gruening
    • [Nelson] Frank to Run for House
  6. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 2/No. 1/March 1981
    • Tribal Membership, by Andrew Hope
    • Sitka Community Association [list of ] Tribal Council Meetings 1981
    • Tribal Employment Rights Office, by Harold Jackson
    • Letter from [General Counsel] Paul, Johnson, Paul and Riley + list of Contracts & Grants
    • Sitka Community Association [flow chart]
    • Adult Basic Education
    • SCA-CETA Annual Report, 2nd Quarter January ‘81 to March ‘81, by Keith Redeagle
    • Housing Improvement Program, by Robert Nielson
    • Progress Report Higher Education Program, by Connie Simpson
    • Adult Vocational Training Program Progress Report
    • Social Services Annual Report Fiscal Year ‘80, by Georgina Kaycon
    • Planning Workshop
    • Sitka Community Association Education Committee
    • Sitka Community Association Health Committee
    • Sitka Native Education Program, End-Of-The-Year Report, September – March 1981
  7. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community,Vol. 2, No. 1/March, 1981[This Volume number, the same as the preceding newsletter, was due to a replicated error]
    • The Sitka Indian Village Redevelopment Project
    • Recent News From Neek
    • Native Health History, by Frank O. Williams Jr.[includes program planning participants, April 27, 1970]
    • Grand Camp Res. No. 81-56: commending Isabella Brady
    • Origin of The Land Claim Movement, by Fred Paul
    • “Henry Benson 1925-1980,” poem by Andrew Hope
    • SCA Tribal Enrollment
    • Overall Economic Development Planning in Sitka
    • Native Foster Homes a Much Needed Resource
    • The Mt. Edgecumbe PHS Hospital Outpatient Dept., by the SCA Health Committee
    • Higher Education Applications
  8. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 2/No. 2/1982, Special Edition
    • SCA Constitutional Convention
    • Membership Roll
    • Indian Sovereignty
    • Tribal Law by Bob Peck
    • SCA Calendar of Events
    • Are You Enrolled To SCA?
    • Rules and Regs (for charters under BIA)
    • Tribal Court (formative)
    • Baranof Island Native Public Housing Authority
    • Grand Camp Convention (Resolution: Timber Renewal)
    • Constitution & Bylaws Of The Sca (ratified Oct 11, 1938)
  9. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, Vol. 2/No. 2/December 1981
    • Review: Poetry By Paul Metcalf By Richard Dauenhauer
    • Beyond Geography By Frederick Turner
    • Mt. Edgecombe Hospital, By Barbara Baker, Rn
    • Dental, By Frank Sutton
    • October Report (SCA), By General Manager Andy Hope
    • Housing (Letters Of Support/Concern)
    • Baranof Island Native Public Housing Authority
    • RESOLUTION A resolution of the Assembly of the City and Borough of Sitka supporting attempts by the Sitka Commu- nity Association to secure a housing project for the Sitka Indian Village.
    • Mt Edgecumbe High School
    • Tax Act: Indian Tribal Government Tax Act o f 1981
    • Employee Of The Month: Shirley Yocum
  10. NEEK News of the Native Community Special Issue, October 1982
    • Tribal Government and Indian Self-Determination, by Robert Bennett, Consultant on Indian Affairs
    • P.L. 280 and Indian Child Welfare
    • An Interview with Robert Bennett, By Andrew Hope III
    • Alaska Native Self- Government, by David Stanway Case
  11. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, (1983)
    • Written and Unwritten Law, by Judge Jim Bowen
    • United Tribes of Alaska Charter
    • United Tribes of Alaska Formed
    • American Indian Tribal Government, Policy Consultants
    • Raven’s Bones
    • National Indian Law Library
    • Native American Rights Fund Publications List
    • Review of Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law By Russel L. Barsh
  12. NEEK News of the Sitka Native Community, December 1984
    • Christmas-tide in Sitka, January 7, 1898
    • The State of the St. Michael Brotherhood, by Hieromonk Antonii, For the year 1902
    • Funeral Rites, by Archimandrite Anatolii Kamenskii
    • Early Church Conflicts, Sitka Petitions Washington, D.C. (circa 1897, translations by Sergei Kan)
    • The Development of the Indian Court System by Judge Jim Bowen
  13. Raven’s Bones Journal[date unknown, presumed 1985
    • Organization of the Tlingit and Haida Central Council An Interview with Judson Brown, by Andrew Hope
  14. Raven’s Bones Journal, May/June 1986,Published in Alaska Native Magazine (Vol. 4, No. 5)
    • RAVEN’S BONES JOURNAL: in Alaska Native Magazine by Andrew Hope
    • On Leaving the Tundra Times, by Bill Hess
    • “The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty,” Book review by Jim Bowen
    • “Alaska Natives and American Laws,” by David Case, Book review by Jim Bowen
    • “Captured Heritage,” book review by Peter Corey
    • Rethinking Indian Law,” book review by Jim Bowen
    • Eben Hopson, a Biography, By Fred Bigjim
    • “Alaskan John G. Brady: Missionary, Businessman, Judge, and Governor,” book review by Sergei Kan
    • The SCA Court of Elders, by Robert Peck, PhD.
    • Yeil is a Myth, by Frederick Paul
    • Poetry, by Sister Goodwin and Andrew Hope
  15. Raven’s Bones Journal, July/August 1986, Published in Alaska Native Magazine (Vol. 4, No. 6)
    • Tlingit Stone Fishing Technologies, by Steve J. Langdon
  16. Raven’s Bones Journal Vol. 1/No. 1/Nov. 1993
    • The Alaska, Native Reading Program, By Andy Hope
    • Juneau Indian Studies Program, by Rhonda Hickock
    • Native Education Commission, by Ron Williams
    • Cy Peck Sr. Honored at Dinner Tribute
    • “These Masks,” poem by Andy Hope for Cy Peck Sr.
    • Founders’ Day: Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 2 by Andy Hope
    • “Will the Time Ever Come?” Clan Conference in Klukwan by Andy Hope
    • waa sa yaa at na nein (what’s happening!)
    • Officers, Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood
    • 1993-94 Indian Studies Program, Parent Board and Staff
  17. Raven’s Bones Journal Vol. 2/No. 1/April 1994
    • Survey of Native American Children’s Literature,1968-90 by Geary Hobson
    • What’s In a Name?(Derision by Juneau citizens for Tlingit place names)
    • Editorial, Sealaska enrollment (left-outs)
    • The Catalog of Native American Writers
    • Education Commission Fights for Our Kids, by Carol Jorgensen
    • Alaska Native Literature Selected Bibliography, by Richard Dauenhauer
    • MEMORIAL POEM, by the late Charles Olson
    • (1993) Clan Conference Video Catalog
  18. Raven’s Bones Journal, Vol. 3/No. 1/March 1995
    • Who are the True Landless Natives? By Andy Hope
    • 1949 Sitka ANB, Pride of Sitka and Southeast, by Gil Truitt
    • A Message from SEACC, to SE AK Native community
    • Murkowski’s Landless Bill by Vance A. Sanders
    • Southeast Alaska’s Landless Dilemma, by Richard Young
    • Poem, Chilkoot Heritage, by Tasquatly
    • Reconstructing Alaskan Indian Tribes, by Andy Hope
    • Choice of Law in Tribal Courts, by James A. Bowen
    • Settling the New World, (excerpt) by Roger Echo-Hawk
  19. Raven’s Bones Journal, Vol. 4/No. 1/November 1995
    • The Second Conference of T1ingit Tribes and Clans, Au- gust 1-3, 1995 at Sheldon Jackson College (Sitka)by Andy Hope
    • Establishing a T1ingit Natural and Cultural and Resources Commission,by Jude Pate, Sitka Tribal Attorney
    • 1995 Officers of ANB & ANS Camp
    • Ancient Tlingit Fishing Sites, July 13, 1995
    • Indigenous Weavers: For Ourselves and Our People
    • Tlingit Memorial Calendar, Summer/Fall 1995
    • The Last Potlatch (1904) photo by E.W. Merrill, photo Identification by: Mrs George (Mary) John (1985), and Mrs. Sam (Minnie) Johnson (1981)
    • Tlingit memorials explainedSergei Kan, Richard & Nora Dauenhauer
    • Forty Day Parties & “Pay-Offs”
    • Tentative schedule of parties for 1996
    • The Juneau Native Education Commission
  20. Raven’s Bones Journal,Vol. 5/No. 1/November 1996
    • Summary Reports: Workshops of the Third Conference of the Tlingit Tribes and Clans Saxman and Ketchikan, Alaska, (notes by Sherry Steele)
    • New Native Forum, by Andy Hope
    • Helen Hope Hays, by Marie Olson
    • A Tribute to Roy Dennis, by John Hope
    • Pepper’s Pow Wow festival circuit and captures top hon- or, by Joslyn Howard, Upstream Productions
    • Native Writers Circle Honors Vine Deloria, Jr. by Geary Hobson
    • The ANB Camp 2 monitors the legislature, by Bob Willard
    • The Last Potlatch and 1996 Forty Day Parties by Harold Jacobs
    • Identifications of photograph by Merrill, neg. no. 328740, hosts and Yakutat guests at the Sitka potlatch on Decem- ber 9, 1904.
    • Reading (Totem) Poles, by Andy Hope