2011 Annual Report - Sealaska Heritage Institute

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SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE
One Sealaska Plaza, Suite 301
Juneau, Alaska 99801
907.463.4844 • 907.586.9293 (f)
www.sealaskaheritage.org • www.alaskanativeartists.com
www.jineit.com
ISBN 978-0-9825786-8-1
Cover art and art featured on pages 2, 8, 14, 20, and 28 made by
Tlingit artist Clarissa Rizal. Her works range from traditional pieces
intended for ceremonial use to original contemporary pieces such as
the collages featured in this book.
Design and composition by Kathy Dye.
PHOTO CREDITS
Page 1, SHI President Rosita Worl by Scott Areman; page 3, Tlingit
War Helmet made by Wayne Price by Brian Wallace; page 6, Mt.
Saint Elias Dancers by Carolyn Cogan, Chilkat weaver Clarissa
Rizal, weaver Holly Churchill, and masks by Kathy Dye; page 6,
moccasin class students by Brian Wallace, artist Nathan Jackson
holding pipe by Kathy Dye; page 9, students by Jordan Gibson;
page 10, photos by Kathy Dye; page 12, Latseen Academy by Jordan
Gibson, Latseen Hoop Camp by Crystal Worl; page 15, Chilkat
blanket by Brian Wallace; page 16, Commander of the Tides mask
courtesy of Hoonah Heritage Foundation, SoundScriber disc by
Kathy Dye; page 18, Byron Mallott by Brian Wallace, Emily Moore
by Dixie Hutchinson, Box of Knowledge by Kathy Dye; page 21,
Dr. Walter Soboleff courtesy of Sealaska Corporation; pages 22–26,
Walter Soboleff Center renderings by Vlad Irimescu of MRV
Architects; page 42, Rosita Worl and Ed Thomas by Kathy Dye,
Rosita Worl and Julie Kitka by Dixie Hutchinson, Ethel Lund photo
courtesy of Dana Leask-Ruaro; page 44, Dr. Walter Soboleff by
Brian Wallace.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE • 1
PROGRAMS
Native Art • 3
Education and Native Languages • 9
Collections and Research • 15
Walter Soboleff Center • 21
DONORS • 29
FINANCIALS • 38
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, COUNCIL OF
TRADITIONAL SCHOLARS • 40
NATIVE ARTISTS COMMITTEE, STAFF • 41
Sealaska Heritage
Institute (SHI) is
a regional Native
nonprofit 501(c)(3)
founded in 1980.
Our mission is to
perpetuate and enhance
Tlingit, Haida, and
Tsimshian cultures.
Our goal is to promote
cultural diversity
and cross-cultural
understanding.
SHI administers cultural
and educational
programs.
AWARDS • 43
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President’s Message
The year 2011 was a year of change for us
at Sealaska Heritage Institute.
Our longtime Chair, Dr. Walter
Soboleff, “Walked Into the Forest” at
the age of 102. Fluent in Tlingit and a
scholar on traditional ways, he was a
valued member of our team at Sealaska
Heritage Institute and is sorely missed.
But his legacy will live on. In 2011,
we announced our new center in Juneau
will be named for him. The Walter
Soboleff Center will be the premiere
facility for Southeast Alaska Native
arts and exhibits and study of Native
cultures. In 2011, we continued our
fundraising campaign and worked with
an architectural firm on the design. We
think Dr. Soboleff would be proud.
In 2011, we also made headlines outside of Alaska when
we showcased Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian artists at the
renowned Santa Fe Indian Market. We went there to introduce
ourselves, our art, and our culture to people at the the largest
Native art market in the world. We think that the more people
know about Southeast Alaska Native art, the more demand will
grow for this distinctive Northwest Coast art.
Our next Celebration in 2012 will feature an expanded
Native art market, as we move toward emulating the market in
Santa Fe. We hope you will join us there!
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—ROSITA WORL
PRESIDENT

Native Art and At.óow
The wood carvings, basketry,
weavings, and other cultural pieces
made by the Tlingit, Haida, and
Tsimshian are distinctive in the
art world and sought by collectors
across the globe.
Some of the most ancient
objects are found in museums as far
flung as England and Russia.
Modern Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian make cultural
objects to this day, and the pieces presented at ceremonies are
considered to be clan at.óowu (sacred clan treasurers).
But in the last decade, master Native artists grew
concerned that emerging artists were not learning the ancient
designs properly and that some art practices, such as spruce
root weaving, were becoming endangered. In response, SHI
expanded its art program to include:
• A biennial Juried Art Show and Competition
• Native art workshops
• Native art markets
• Two Native art websites
• Publication of Native art books
• Commissions of monumental art
Our goal is to ensure the survival and evolution of the
unique Northwest Coast art and create economic opportunities
for our artists across the region.
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Santa Fe Indian Market. CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP: Mt. Saint Elias Dancers. Chilkat weaver
Clarissa Rizal with a Chilkat robe in progress.
Weaver Holly Churchill. SHI Arts and Culture
Specialist Rico Worl with masks and jewelry by
Nicholas Galanin.
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Native Art and At.óow
{Native Art Markets}
In 2011, SHI sponsored a Native art market for Tlingit, Haida,
and Tsimshian at the Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico.
The goals were to better educate art enthusiasts and
collectors about Southeast Alaska’s distinctive indigenous art
and to eventually develop a similar market in Alaska.
SHI’s events included Native art demonstrations, art
sales, dance-and culture performances by the Mt. Saint Elias
Dancers of Yakutat, and a high fashion show of regalia and
contemporary Native clothing.
The Santa Fe Indian Market has been instrumental in
creating worldwide demand for Southwest Indian art. Such a
market in Alaska would be a boon for the state and for Native
artists struggling to make a living, said SHI President Rosita
Worl, noting the Santa Fe market has made some Native artists
there prosperous.
“It provides them with a good living,” Worl said. “Some
have said it’s their livelihood for the entire year. And the benefit
it brings to businesses there in Santa Fe is also something that
would be good for our economy.”
SHI provides other retail opportunities for Native artists
as well, including an art store, Jineit, which is located in the
tourism district of Juneau. In 2011, the institute created a
searchable e-commerce site for the store at www.jineit.com. SHI
also operates the art web www.alaskanativeartists.com.
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TOP: In 2011, SHI sponsored workshops
on how to make moccasins in Juneau and
Angoon. ABOVE: Student with moccasin in
progress. LEFT: Tlingit carver Nathan Jackson
at the British Museum studying an old pipe
inlaid with abalone. In 2011, a SHI delegation
traveled to the museum to document the
collection for a book.
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2011
Native Art and At.óow
{Workshops, Publications, Performing Arts}
In recent years, Tlingit Elder Anita Lafferty urged SHI to
sponsor workshops on how to make moccasins. People were
forgetting how to make them, she said.
SHI responded in late 2010 by sponsoring a moccasin
workshop taught by Anita Lafferty. In 2011, Anita “Walked
Into The Forest.” But, the first workshop proved to be so
popular, the institute has continued them.
In 2011, SHI’s Carmaleeda Estrada taught two workshops
in Angoon and Juneau for almost forty students. Some of
the students caught on so quickly, they were able to make a
complete set of moccasins by the end of the class, each of which
ran three days.
The institute also sponsored a trip to England in 2011 to
document Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian objects at the British
Museum. The delegation included SHI’s Donald Gregory, an
artist, and the famous Tlingit artist Nathan Jackson.
The museum has a wide range of objects, including some
very old Chilkat robes and a rare bentwood box made from
baleen. SHI plans to publish a book on the British Museum
collection, which many Native artists have never seen.
In addition, SHI partnered with Perseverance Theatre
to sponsor the Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous, a five-week
program for young people with an interest in theatre. SHI
sponsored scholarships for Native actors to participate in The
Woman Who Married the Bear, a play based on a Tlingit story.
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Education and Native Languages
We know for a fact that
Native children do better
academically when they
know who they are—
when they are familiar
with their history,
language, and culture.
At Sealaska
Heritage Institute, we
work to integrate Native
culture and languages
into classrooms.
We also develop
teaching materials,
including books, curriculum, and interactive tools and provide
professional development to train teachers to use our materials.
In addition, the institute sponsors an annual academy for
middle school children where we cultivate the art of leadership
through camp activities and coursework based on traditional
and scientific knowledge.
And, we sponsor an annual camp that integrates
basketball with language learning. Through this camp, students
retain Native languages because they have fun while they’re
learning.
SHI also makes annual scholarship awards to Native
students enrolled in college or voc-tech school.
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TOP: SHI released The Road to ANCSA, 11-units of social studies materials for
grade 6. Staff also taught more than 200 teachers how to use its materials, which
include fun exercises. ABOVE: In 2011, SHI unveiled Let’s Learn Tlingit, flash
cards for learning the Tlingit alphabet.
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2011
Education and Native Languages
{Materials Development, Scholarships}
In 2011, SHI released The Road to ANCSA (The Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act), an 11-unit social studies curriculum for
grade 6 that incorporates a method called the Developmental
Language Process (DLP), which has been shown to help
students retain language. The text is available online at www.
sealaskaheritage.org and includes units on:
• Creation Story
• Clans and Moieties
• Migration Story
• Ku.éex’ (Ceremonies)
• Alaska Native Groups • Native Arts
• Traditional Beliefs
• Traditional Shelters
• Ancient Trade
• Contact
• Southeast Alaska Communities
The institute in 2011 also released flash cards, an audio
CD, and an online interactive tool designed to teach the Tlingit
alphabet to young people.
The materials feature original, whimsical art and are
meant to provide a fun way for kids to interact and become
familiar with the Tlingit alphabet. Each card includes a
character in the Tlingit alphabet, a Tlingit word that uses that
character, and an image depicting the Tlingit word.
SHI distributed the card sets and CDs to more than a
dozen teachers with Tlingit language programs in Southeast
Alaska and posted the materials on the institute’s web.
The institute in 2011 also distributed $447,000 in
scholarships to students attending college or voc-tech school.
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TOP: 2011 Latseen Leadership Academy.
ABOVE AND RIGHT: SHI teaches basketball
and Native languages at its annual Latseen
Hoop Camps.
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2011
Education and Native Languages
{Latseen Academy, Latseen Hoop Camps}
SHI in 2011 sponsored its annual Latseen Leadership Academy
for students in grades 6-8.
This year’s camp in Juneau drew forty-eight students from
Southeast Alaska and as far away as Fairbanks, and Oregon.
At the eight-day camp, the institute used its
Developmental Language Process materials and gave tests
before and after to assess their effectiveness. The results were
significant: students improved their post-test scores in Tlingit
by 53 percent. They showed 13 percent improvement in math
and 26 percent improvement in science.
“The test scores show the DLP method is working.
Students are learning the content and retaining it,” said Joshua
Ream, SHI curriculum specialist.
The DLP materials are designed to increase students’
vocabulary in each of the content areas. The vocabulary words
are selected from the State Academic Standards, and the words
are incorporated into activities to make learning fun.
The students also met new people, worked in teams,
and built skills. Students learned how to process fish for the
smokehouse, sew ceremonial vests, and make copper jewelry.
SHI in 2011 also sponsored its annual Latseen Hoop
Camps in Hoonah and Juneau for almost forty students.
This is an innovative program designed to teach Native
languages to kids through basketball. We think this approach
helps kids retain language because it makes learning fun!
The camps were taught by Ralph Wolfe, Jordan Gibson,
De’Andre Jazz King, Mischa Jackson, Josh Jackson, Jessica
Chester and Michaela Demmert.
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Collections and Research
SHI houses rare books, historical
photographs, audiovisual
recordings, manuscript materials,
and ethnographic objects that
document the history, culture,
heritage, art, and language of the
Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian.
The collections are available
to the public for educational
and research purposes through
on-site visits and SHI’s online
searchable databases located at www.sealaskaheritage.org.
SHI acquires its collections through donations and
purchase. The institute also cares for art and clan at.óowu
repatriated under federal law on behalf of clans.
The institute employs a full-time, professional staff to care
for its collections and to assist researchers. SHI also fosters
research of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures through
its Visiting Scholars Program. Scholars who are accepted into
the program are given logistical support and introductions to
people in the Native community.
SHI further supports research by sponsoring an annual
lecture series featuring speakers doing research of importance
to the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian.
The institute also sponsors an internship program to
foster Alaska Native students pursuing careers in archives
and museums–fields that are currently underrepresented by
Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian.
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TOP: Commander of the Tides, a Hoonah
mask repatriated in 2011. ABOVE: Historic
SoundScriber disc containing audio recording
of Kake land claims testimony, 1945.
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2011
Collections and Research
{Archives, Objects, Internship Program}
In 2011, SHI helped the T’akdeintaan Clan, Mt. Fairweather
House, of Hoonah repatriate eight old, cultural objects illegally
sold to an east coast museum in the 1920s.
The clan has been trying for sixteen years to repatriate a
collection of 50 objects owned by the Mt. Fairweather House (a
sub division of the clan) but held by the Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The repatriated objects include a wooden box drum, a
robe known as the Lituya Bay Robe, a mask known as Owl of
the Heavens, a mask known as Commander of the Tides, a
headdress known as Little Ravine, a head cover formed from
a corner piece of a Chilkat blanket, a rattle featuring a loon,
human and raven’s head, and a tobacco pipe.
The institute also received a federal grant to research and
migrate old Tlingit language recordings to a format that will
make them more accessible to modern-day Native language
students and scholars.
The grant from the Institute of Museum and Library
Services will allow SHI to migrate more than one hundred
recordings of people speaking Tlingit to a digital format. Some
of the recordings date to the early 1900s.
SHI also in 2011 joined with the University of Alaska
Southeast (UAS) in an internship program designed to foster
more archivists and museum curators.
SHI’s first Tlingit intern under the program, founded
in 2011 by UAS, was just accepted into a graduate school
in California to pursue a career in archives and given a full
scholarship.
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TOP: First Alaskans Fellow
Byron Mallott giving a
lecture on ANCSA at SHI’s
2011 lecture series. ABOVE:
2011 Visiting Scholar Emily
Moore. LEFT: SHI’s new occasional
paper series Box of
Knowledge.
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2011
Collections and Research
{Lectures, Scholars, Occasional Papers}
Alaska made history in the 1970s when it settled its Native land
claims by forming Native corporations instead of reservations.
The federal law that paved the way was the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act, known as ANCSA.
In 2011, SHI made ANCSA the focus of its annual lecture
series, in recognition of the fortieth anniversary of the act.
The November lecture series included talks by First
Alaskans Fellow Byron Mallott, Tlingit and Haida Central
Council President Ed Thomas, Scholar Tom Thornton, Sealaska
Corporation President and CEO Chris E. McNeil, and SHI
President Rosita Worl, an anthropologist.
The series was videotaped and may be viewed online at
www.sealaskaheritage.org.
SHI also hosted Ph.D. Candidate Emily Moore through its
Visiting Scholars Program. Moore is studying Southeast Alaska
totem parks created during the Great Depression. Moore gave
a lecture in 2011 and screened a recently rediscovered newsreel
about the parks from 1949.
The institute in 2011 also announced its new Box of
Knowledge Occasional Papers series. The series will be a
platform for essays covering all aspects of Alaska Native life,
including history, anthropology, archaeology, art history,
political science, linguistics, sociology, and literature.
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Walter Soboleff Center
SHI is planning to build a new center
named after Dr. Walter Soboleff, a Tlingit
Native of the Raven, Dog Salmon clan.
He was a spiritual leader who helped
Native and non-Native people alike at
a time when segregation was the norm.
Throughout his life, he worked tirelessly
to advance Native civil rights.
Dr. Soboleff’s generosity of spirit
and small acts of kindness made him a
giant of a man to people across Alaska. He
practiced our traditional Native values,
especially Haa Shagóon—honoring our
past while preparing a better future for
our children’s children.
He was also important to the institute: he served on our
Board of Trustees since 1985 and as our Chair since 1988 up
until the day he died. He was also a member of SHI’s Council of
Traditional Scholars and gave us valued guidance along the way.
In May 2011, Dr. Soboleff “Walked Into The Forest” at
age 102, but his accomplishments and people whose lives he
touched live on.
The Walter Soboleff Center will be a physical
manifestation of Haa Shagóon and all the ideals he held dear.
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The Walter Soboleff Center
will be located in the historic
district of downtown Juneau.
The center will help Alaska
Natives to share their heritage,
culture, language, and
place in a diverse and rapidly
evolving society.
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2011
Walter Soboleff Center
{Capital Campaign, Design}
The Walter Soboleff Center will be a facility that will perpetuate
the arts, revitalize Native languages, enhance diversity in the
community and nation, and allow SHI to continue growing and
flourishing for years to come.
In 2011, SHI continued its campaign to raise $20
million to build the center. The Alaska State Legislature and
Alaska governor in 2011 included a $5 million appropriation
in the state budget for the center, bringing the state’s total
contribution toward the project up to $7 million.
SHI also is pursuing donations from other sources,
including foundations and corporations. Sealaska Corporation
donated the lot for the center, which will be located in
downtown Juneau, Alaska’s capital.
In 2011, SHI also worked with MRV Architects on the
design, engineering, and layout of the facility.
The 29,000 sq. ft. center will be designed to meet LEED
Gold standards. It will have four floors, and include space for
SHI’s offices. It will be steps away from the capitol building,
cruise ship docks, and museums.
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TOP: Ceremonial space.
ABOVE: Jinéit, a Native art store.
LEFT: The lobby and other spaces
will feature Native art.
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2011
Walter Soboleff Center
{Native Art, Ceremonial Space}
The center will be a showcase and marketplace for Alaska
Native art. Both traditional and modern Native art installations
from artists and collectors will appear throughout the building.
The center will house Jinéit, a retail store offering
authentic Native art. The store will include space for artist
demonstrations.
The facility also will have spaces for artists to create
monumental art, such as totem poles and dugout canoes.
In addition, SHI will hold art workshops year round on
courses such as formline design, skin sewing, and wood carving.
Our goal is to ensure the survival and evolution of the
unique Northwest Coast art and create economic opportunities
for our artists across the region.
A ceremonial space designed in the tradition of a clan
house is a major element in the new center. With its terraced
flooring, anticipated use of locally available woods, and
traditional artwork, the ceremonial space will be available for
presentations, workshops, and performing arts.
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TOP: The center will have
classrooms and include a living
history center with distance
learning technology for Natives,
scholars, visitors, and the general
public. ABOVE: Public space
for rotating exhibits. LEFT: The
ground floor lobby will lead to
the exhibits area.

2011
Walter Soboleff Center
{Exhibits, Research, Living History Center}
SHI leads the scholarly research of Tlingit, Haida, and
Tsimshian cultures and histories. The institute also provides
support to research scholars and facilitates meetings between
scientists and Native Alaskans.
The new center will fill a need for more public education
and insight into traditional Native cultures. It will also provide
a richer, more context-filled experience.
The facility will include a large space for public
exhibitions of ethnographic objects owned by SHI and pieces
owned by other collectors. The exhibition space will link to a
space for artists to make monumental art.
The center also will include classrooms for workshops and
lectures on Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. It will house
a living history center with distance learning technology for
Natives, scholars, visitors, and the general public.
The entire basement level will house a research facility,
climate-controlled collections storage, and work areas for
SHI’s staff and visiting scholars. The new center will make the
institute’s world-class ethnographic collection widely accessible
to the general public.
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Donors
Sealaska Heritage Institute
is a nonprofit organization
and relies on public funds and
private donations to provide
programs for the Tlingit,
Haida, and Tsimshian plus
scholars, visitors, and the
general public.
The institute is a 501(c)
(3) organization so all contributions are tax deductible.
SHI gratefully acknowledges our 2011 donors, which
included businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and more
than four-hundred individuals.
We especially want to acknowledge the Alaska State
Legislature and Alaska Governor Sean Parnell for making a
significant commitment to our Walter Soboleff Center in 2011.
Gunalchéesh, Háw’aa, T’oyaxs.
Thank you.
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$10,000 AND UP
(CORPORATIONS, NONPROFITS, AND GOVERNMENT)
• Institute of Museum and NAGPRA
Library Services
• Sealaska Corporation
• National Science
• State of Alaska
Foundation
• U.S. Department of
• National Park Service,
Education, ANEP
$1,000—$9,999
(CORPORATIONS, NONPROFITS, AND GOVERNMENT)
• Alaska Humanities Forum • Elgee Rehfeld Mertz, LLC
• Association on American • Huna Heritage
•
Indian Affairs
AT&T
•
Foundation
MRV Architects
• Behrends Mechanical • The Eyak Corporation
• Boyer Towing, Inc. • Van Ness Feldman
UP TO $999
(CORPORATIONS, NONPROFITS, AND GOVERNMENT)
• Advanced Janitorial • Juneau Lions Club
Services
• Martin Environmental
• Alaska Litho
• McDowell Group, Inc.
• American Seafoods • Morgan Howard
•
Company
Black Rhino Marketing •
Productions
Sealaska Corporation
• BP America, Inc.
Shareholders
• Eagle Capital
• Simpson, Tillinghast, &
•
Management
Erisa Compliance •
Sorensen
Sunrise Aviation
Associates
• United Way
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2011
Donors (con’t.)
$1,000—$9,999
(INDIVIDUALS)
• Kadinger, Lee
• Kleefeld, Carolyn
• Kleefeld, Carla
• Mallott, Anthony and
Amanda
• McNeil, Mary and Chris
• Worl, Rosita
UP TO $999
(INDIVIDUALS)
• Ackerman, Brian
• Ackerman-sedivy, Peggy
• Ackert, Yvonne
• Adams, Jean
• Allen, Betty
• Almeida, Wilbert
• Alsup Hart, Serena
• Ames, Molly
• Anderson, Ashley
• Anderson, August
• Anderson, Susan
• Andrianoff, Susan
• Antioquia, Todd
• Araujo, Antone
• Araujo, Jade
• Araujo, Jaeleen
• Araujo, Maya
• Arrington, Marilyn
• Austin, Keith
• Austin, Lena
• Backford, Billy
• Baldwin, Walter
• Ballard, Zina
• Barenie, Linda
• Barnes, Nancy
• Beach, Jennifer
• Beck, Charles
• Beierly, Andrew
• Belarde, Linda
• Belk, Constance
• Bell, Tana
• Bennett, Roberta
• Berkley, Heather
• Berretta, Jeanne
• Berry, Marion
• Bird, Barbara
• Bird, John
• Blake, Barbara
• Boal, Kimi
• Boland, Amy
• Boland, Travis
• Bolanos, Debra
• Bolima, William
• Booth, Rowena
• Borchers, Carol
• Bradford, Florence
• Brainard, Madeline
• Breinig, Jeane
• Brooks, Mitchell
• Brooks, Graehl
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• Brown, Hilory
• Brown, Conrad
• Bryson, Henry
• Byrd, David
• Cabrera, Maria
• Canul-Dunne, Victoria
• Carle, Charlie
• Carlson, Natalia
• Carlson-Arnold, Dayna
• Casperson, Paula
• Castaneda-Felipe,
Aurelia
• Castillo, John
• Cesar, Delfin
• Cesar, Marlene
• Channell, Martha
• Charles, Paul
• Charley, Liana
• Chavarria, Tamera
• Chester Jr, Mark
• Chew, Marcella
• Chilton, Alicia
• Christomos, Laurie
• Chulik, Paul
• Chulik, Isabel
• Churchill, Barbara
• Clark, Estella
• Clark, Louise
• Cleland, Deborah
• Cline, Allan
• Cogley, Wendy
• Collins, Heleena
• Cook, Elizabeth
• Cook, Matthew
• Cox, Valentin
• Crane, Robert
• Curtis, Claudette
• Dabaluz, Gail
• Dailey, Eleanor
• Dailey, Jennifer
• Dalton, Sylvia
• Davenport, Terry
• DeAsis, Milton
• DeGroat, Candida
• Demmert, Mildred
• Demmert, Ruth
• Dexter, John
• Dick, Cavan
• Dick, Russell
• Dick, Tevin
• Didrickson, Carlos
• Didrickson, Sharon
• Dixon, Michael
• Doucette, Lorraine
• Douglas, Michael
• Drake, Donna
• Duncan, Desiree
• Duncan, Jon
• Dundas, Reba
• Dundas, Lisa
• Dunne, Francis
• Dybdahl, Johan
• Dybdahl, Paul
• Dybdahl, Sarah
• Dye, Kathy
• Easton, Tamara
• Edenshaw, Sidney
• Emery, Albert
• Emery, Joseph
• Enloe, Cheryle
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2011
Donors (con’t.)
• Erickson, Justin
• Evenson, Lorissa
• Farmer, Hope
• Farquharson, Martha
• Fergestrom, Wilma
• Fernandez, Ceasar
• Fields, Audrey
• Fiorella, Marguerite
• Fish, Esther
• Fisher, Violet
• Fisher, Lisa
• Flores, Arlene
• Fluetsch, Bradley
• Flygare, Clarkelle
• Flygare, Delores
• Folletti, Susan
• Foss, Lola
• Frank, Albert
• Frank, Oscar
• Frankforter, Hazel
• Frederiksen, Derik
• Frederiksen, Glenn
• Freiberg, Joyce
• Furlow, Jeffrey
• Gage, Amelia
• Gage, Robin
• Garcia, Clara
• Garnick, Ptarmica
• Garza, Corrine
• Gauthun, Sheila
• George, Lawrence
• George, Phyllis
• Gilbert, John
• Gilbert, Pacita
• Ginger, Kristine
• Giroux, Karen
• Glatzmaier, Michael
• Goddard, Doris
• Goenett, George
• Goodrich, Lloyd
• Goodwin, Kellie
• Gordon, Charles
• Gordon, Larry
• Gouge, Vivian
• Grabhorn, Laura
• Grant, Andrew
• Grant, Lori
• Greene, Kelly
• Greer, Melanie
• Greig, Ellen
• Gubatayao, John
• Guerrero, Maximo
• Gulledge, Roberta
• Guthrie, Judylee
• Guthrie, Floyd
• Haaseth, Einar
• Haerling, Christopher
• Hale, Albert
• Hallingstad, Nicole
• Hamblet, Edward
• Hamilton, Ryan
• Hammer, William
• Harmon, Monica
• Harris, Clara
• Harris, Rick
• Harris, Thomas
• Haws, Elizabeth
• Heaton Sheufelt, Janice
• Henry, Arlene
• Hill, David
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• Hillman, Lou
• Hoffay, Sonya
• Hooey, Theodore
• Hotch, Marsha
• Howard, Devyn
• Howard, Elizabeth
• Howard, George
• Howard, Klae
• Howard, Morgan
• Howard, Roan
• Hoyt, Rob
• Hoyt, Henrietta
• Hoyt, Kathryn
• Hoyt, Michael
• Hughan, Jennifer
• Hughes, Marlene
• Hunter, Jacqueline
• Hutchinson, Irma
• Jackson, Robert
• Jackson, Clarence
• Jackson, Lornell
• Jacobson, Dora
• James, Benjamin
• James, Esther
• James, Marion
• James, Norman
• Jameson, Vincent
• Jensen, Peter
• John, Jessy
• Johnsen, Christopher
• Johnson, Harlan
• Johnson, Jacqueline
• Johnson, Marlene
• Johnson, Stanley
• Jones, Bruce
• Jones, Zachary
• Jovick, Paul
• Kadinger, Lee
• Kadinger, Louise
• Kanen, Evelyn
• Kasbohm, Donald
• Ketah, Beth
• Kilmer, Richard
• Kline, Valerie
• Knight, Donna
• Kookesh, Sally
• Kookesh, Elaine
• Korthuis, Sasha
• Krontz, Dean
• Kuchinsky, Steven
• Kuhlman, Virginia
• Kuhnau, Sandra
• Laborn, Tava
• Lambert, Connie
• Lambert, Kevin
• Lamp, Laurie
• Landol, Samuel
• Lauth, Frederick
• Lawrence, David
• Lea, Kathleen
• Leask, D
• Leask, Lucinda
• Leask, Robert
• Lemke, Vivian
• Lewis, Kenneth
• Light, Tiara
• Lincoln, Edward
• Ling, Dorcey
• Little, Daniel
• London, Joseph
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2011
Donors (con’t.)
• Lopez, Theresa
• Lucas, Tara
• Luckhurst, Vince
• Lund, Ethel
• Lundy, Richard
• Lynn, Dori
• Macasaet, Melodie
• Mackey, Patricia
• Mallott, Benjamin
• Mallott, Byron and
Antoinette
• Manuel, Symsi
• Marks, Erik
• Martin, Robert
• Martin, Hilary
• Martin, Joan
• Marvin, Wallace
• Maslowski, Ruth
• Mason, Judith
• Matthews, Marie
• Matthews Whitlock,
Kimberly
• Maughan, Jeanne
• McAlpin, Patrick
• McClure, Linda
• McClure, Michael
• McClure, Steven
• McCullough, Robert
• McLane, Steve
• McQueen, Curtis
• McVey, Ilya
• Metz, Lizabeth
• Middleton, Gloria
• Miller, Charlene
• Miller, Laurie
• Miller, Michael
• Milligan, Sandra
• Mills, Ernest
• Mintz, Alan
• Mitchell, Catrina
• Mitchell, Johanna
• Mitchell, John
• Monares, Dennis
• Moran, Jeffrey
• Morato, Claudio
• Morris, Alice
• Morrison, Brendan
• Moy, Brian
• Moy, Cheri
• Murphy, Frank
• Nelson, Margaret
• Nelson, Barbara
• Nelson, Norval
• Ness, Loretta
• Ness, Christine
• Nevers, Cathleen
• Newland, Jeannette B
• Newman, Carlene
• Nickolai, Ethan
• Nielsen, Anna
• Nielsen, Marie
• Norton, Dawn
• Novela, Jenna
• Novela, John
• Novela, Dianna
• O Connell, Michael
• Obert, Michael
• Oehler, David
• Olsen Smith, Karla
• Orazio, Joseph
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2
• Orr, Elizabeth
• Ozanich, Terrance
• Parham, Consuelo
• Paris, Ruth
• Parker, Carol
• Parks, Cathleen
• Patrick, Barbara
• Paul, Tyrone
• Peele, Roxanne
• Perez-Felipe, Cecilia
• Perry, Elizabeth
• Peters, Darold
• Peters, Edna
• Peterson, Reginald
• Peterson, Marjorie
• Phillips, Catherine
• Phipps, Rodney
• Phipps, John
• Pleasants, Samuel
• Pratt, Walter
• Preston, Caleb
• Pritchett, Tammy
• Pruett, Lorie
• Puckett, Crystal
• Quinto, Julian
• Raines, Davina
• Ramey, Kevin
• Ramos, Judith
• Ratliff, Mary
• Refuerzo III, James
• Revels, Kimberly
• Reynolds, Florence
• Richert, Callen
• Richert, Maxine
• Richey, Patricia
• Rickard, Lonnie
• Rodriguez, Helen
• Rose, Richard
• Ross, Joseph
• Rowan, Blake
• Rowan, Mia
• Rud, Walter
• Ruddy, Kathy
• Samaniego, Sandy
• Sanders, Larry
• Sanderson, Ray
• Sanford, Lamar
• Santana, Verla
• Sargent, Christopher
• Schrack, Linda
• Schultz, Benjamin
• Scott, Rose
• Seegert, Elizabeth
• Shafer, Janice
• Shea, Irene
• Sheakley, Amber
• Shewbert, James
• Silva, Tanya
• Skartvedt, Betty
• Smathers, Wilma
• Smetzer, Gerald
• Smith, Thelma
• Smith, Diane
• Smith, John
• Smythe, Chuck
• Soboleff, Jacob
• Spires, Theresa
• Stack, Lyle
• Stearns, Beverly
• Stedman, Lori
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2011
Donors (con’t.)
• Steele, Priscilla
• Stein, Garth
• Stevick, Desmona
• Stewart, Loretta
• Stivers, Stuart
• Stokes, Gilbert
• Strong, Daniel
• Sumey, Janet
• Sutton, Rita
• Tabafunda, Judy
• Tansy, Douglas
• Tassell, Patrick
• Taylor, Philip
• Thomas, Cindy
• Thomas, Kerri
• Thomas, Rhiannon
• Thomas, William
• Thomas, Edward
• Thomas, Joyce
• Thompson, Terri
• Thurston, Barbara
• Tripp, Arlene
• Tynan, Pat
• Van Horn, Timothy
• Vandel, Richard
• Vermeulen, Pearl
• Verney, Darrel
• Walder, Carmel
• Waldron, Robin
• Wallace, Carol
• Walter, Carmelita
• Walters, Robert
• Walters, George
• Warden, Kathleen
• Wark, Kyle
• Watson, Harry
• Weathers, David
• Weedman, Jeanetta
• Weir, Patrick
• Weiser, Janice
• Weston, Paul
• White, Julie
• White, Lily
• White, Deborah
• Wilcox, Roberta
• Williams, Fredrick
• Williams, Franklin
• Williams, Ronald
• Williams, Savannah
• Wilson, William
• Wilson, Marilyn
• Wisdom, Caryn
• Wolfe, Ronald
• Worl, Lillian
• Worl, Miranda
• Worl, Ricardo
• Worl, Rico
• Worl Jr., Ricardo
• Worl, Rod
• Wright, Irving
• Wright, Daniel
• Yugulis, Barbara
• Zane, Stacie
• Zastrow, Lewis
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2
2011
Unrestricted
Revenues and Support
Contributions and Grants
Sales, Dues and Fees
Total Investment Income/(Loss)
Net Assets Released from Restrictions
Total Revenues and Support and
Net Assets Released from Restrictions
Expenses
Program Services
Support Services
Management and General
Resource Development
Total Expenses
Change in Net Assets
Net Assets, Beginning of Year
Endowments
Other Net Assets
Total Net Assets, December 31, 2009
Net Assets, End of Year
Endowments
Other Net Assets
Total Net Assets, December 31, 2011
3,775,419
18,242
3,841
58,041
3,855,543
1,439,875
1,272,435
191,660
2,903,970
951,573
-
2,118,636
2,118,636
-
3,070,209
3,070,209
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2011
Financials
Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2011
(Summary Financial Statement—compiled from audited report)
2011
Temporarily
restricted
62,741
2,111
(58,041)
6,811
Permanently
restricted
-
-
-
-
-
Total
3,838,160
18,242
5,952
-
3,862,354
-
-
-
-
-
6,811
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,439,875
-
1,272,435
191,660
2,903,970
958,384
58,993
76,388
135,381
110,845
31,347
142,192
100,000
91,000
191,000
100,000
91,000
191,000
158,993
2,286,024
2,445,017
210,845
3,192,556
3,403,401
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Board of Trustees
Council of Traditional Scholars
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
• Dr. Walter Soboleff, Chair
• Marlene Johnson, Chair (succeeded Soboleff mid 2011)
• Robert Martin, Vice-Chair
• Joe Nelson, Secretary
• Clarence Jackson
• Ethel Lund
• Nancy Barnes
• Jeane Breinig
• Mike Miller
COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL SCHOLARS
• Clarence Jackson, Chair
• Ken Grant
• Joe Hotch
• David Katzeek
• Paul Marks
• George Ramos
• Dr. Walter Soboleff
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2011
Native Artists Committee
Staff
NATIVE ARTISTS COMMITTEE
• Steve Brown
• Holly Churchill
• Nicholas Galanin
• Nathan Jackson
STAFF
• Dr. Rosita Worl, President
• Linda Belarde, Curriculum Specialist
• Sarah Dybdahl, Projects Manager
• Kathy Dye, Media and Publications Director
• Carmaleeda Estrada, Development Associate
• Lola Foss, Director of Finance and Human Resources
• Donald Gregory, Administrative Assistant
• Katrina Hotch, Administrative Assistant
• Rick Huteson, Scholarship Administrator
• Zachary Jones, Archivist and Collection Manager
• Lee Kadinger, Chief of Operations
• Michael Obert, Administrative Assistant
• Elizabeth Perry, Development Director, Senior Grant Writer
• Joshua Ream, Curriculum Development Specialist
• Daniel Strong, Research Associate
• Rico Worl, Arts and Culture Specialist
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2
TOP: Tlingit and Haida Central
Council President Ed Thomas
giving Worl the council’s Lifetime
Achievement Award. ABOVE: Worl
accepting the AFN’s Citizen of the
Year award. In back, AFN President
Julie Kitka. LEFT: SHI Trustee
Ethel Lund with the 2011 Shirley
Demientieff Award given by the
governor of Alaska.
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2011
Awards
In 2011, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell gave the Shirley Demientieff
Award to Tlingit Elder and SHI Trustee Ethel Lund.
The award is given each year at the Alaska Federation of
Natives convention by the governor for advocacy on behalf of
Alaska Native women and children.
Lund, originally of Wrangell, is one of the founders of the
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), and
she served as its president. SEARHC began in 1975 as a small
organization led by an Alaska Native volunteer board of directors—mostly
women from remote villages. Over the last three
decades, SEARHC has grown into one of the largest health care
organizations in Alaska.
Also in 2011, SHI President Rosita Worl won the annual
Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Central Council of
the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Worl called it
“a great honor to be recognized by your tribe and your people.”
Central Council is a tribal government representing more than
27,000 Tlingit and Haida Indians worldwide
The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) in 2011 gave to
Worl its Citizen of the Year award. At the awards ceremony,
AFN President Julie Kitka presented the federation’s highest
honor, saying Worl “had dedicated her life to helping Native
people from one corner of the state to the other.”
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Dr. Walter Soboleff
tlingit leader • traditional scholar • shi chair
November 14, 1908–May 22, 2011
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