We have to appreciate them
Kaalgeikw’
Andrew John Hope, Jr.
Stoonookw
Herb Hope
Kiks.ádi men X’aaka
Hít Káakx’
Point House men
Sons of Kaagwaantaan
Sons of Andrew and Tillie Hope
Dad and Herb were
Good teachers
Dad attended every ANB Convention
From the time he joined in 1946 through 1998
He would have made the 1999
If he was alive
Dad and Herb
Were at every ANB and T&H convention
In the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
When I was learning
The protocol
How to get things done
Dad talked to me when I first
Moved to Juneau, just after I turned 18
I left Sitka because I wanted to live with him
He talked to me about how he survived
Tuberculosis
When he was young
How he had watched others
Give up
And pass away
He talked to me about the
Importance of learning
Robert’s Rules
Parliamentary procedure
He learned those rules
They were really
About learning to be civil
To be diplomatic
To be a gentleman
To be friendly
To your opponents
How important it was
To talk to your opponents
And he practiced those rules
Lived those rules
Applied those rules
And he helped organizations
Get things done
Together, as a group
As a community
He helped people
Work out disagreements
Misunderstandings
Conflicts
Humor was an important
Factor in everything
He did
And he was able to
Communicate with people
In public
Because he utilized humor
And speaking skills
That he learned from his uncle
Dalwoolsees’
Don Cameron
Taught him oratorical skills
By making him practice
Presentation
From the top of a tree stump
When he was a boy
He was raised by Dalwoolsees’
Who worked as a translator at the turn of the 19th and
20th centuries
With ethnographer John Swanton
And, with Andrew Hope, was one of the founders of
The Sitka Camp of the Alaska Native Brotherhood
And his maternal aunt
Yaandusgei
Amelia Cameron
The Kiks.ádi matriarch
Who documented our
Tlingit genealogy
With the anthropologist Ronald Olson
In the 1930’s
Who dad referred to as Mrs. Cameron
Who sold the land the Sitka Post Office was built on to the U.S. Government
for $600
Yaandusgei and Dalwoolsees’ believed the Kaalgeikw’
Was the reincarnation of their son John,
Who drowned around 1915
And Kaalgeikw’ grew up as John Cameron
In Yaandugei’s and Dalwoolsees’s home in the Native Cottages
At the entrance of what is now the Sitka National Historic Park
He was a
Peacemaker
Master parliamentarian
Dedicated to the brotherhood
He wrote a manuscript on the history of the ANB
A gentleman
Stoonookw was a tactical strategist
Not unlike his namesake
Who lead the military campaign
Against the Russians
Two hundred years ago
Stoonookw documented, retraced and reenacted the Kiks.ádi Survival
March
The route the Kiks.ádi took across Baranof Island following
the 1804 Battle of Sitka
A student of how to win
Community support
How to win elections
Working with people
Communicating with families
In the Sitka Indian Village
In Anchorage neighborhoods
To get people to support
Policies and people
That wanted to get things done
Kaalgeikew’ and Stoonookw were mentors
To those that came into
The brotherhood and sisterhood
And wanted to accomplish something
To work for the community
For the Native people
