The American Flag and the Alaska Native Brotherhood

The Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) (est. 1912) is one of the oldest Indigenous rights groups in the United States. Although critics have accused the ANB of endorsing assimilationist policies in its early years, recent scholarship has re-evaluated the strategies of the ANB to advance Tlingit and Hai...

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Published in:Arts
Main Author: Emily L. Moore
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
Subjects:
Alaska Native Brotherhood
Alaska Native Sisterhood
American flag
Indigenous sovereignty
patriotic pluralism
Tlingit
Haida
Tsimshian
tlingit
Tsimshian*
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040158
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Summary:The Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) (est. 1912) is one of the oldest Indigenous rights groups in the United States. Although critics have accused the ANB of endorsing assimilationist policies in its early years, recent scholarship has re-evaluated the strategies of the ANB to advance Tlingit and Haida governance at the same time that they pursued a strategic commitment to the settler state. Contributing to this re-appraisal of the early ANB, this article examines photographic documentation of the use of the American flag in ANB Halls from the period 1914–1945. I argue that the pairing of the American flag with Indigenous imagery in ANB Halls communicated the ANB’s commitment to U.S. citizenship and to Tlingit and Haida sovereignty.

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