Mr. Elook, Natasha Segevan, Ermelina Gonzalez, and Christine Noratak at the 2019 EWE Traditional Gathering
Mission
Advocating for Native Students at BDEAHS
Helping our Community
Sharing Cultures
Raise awareness about Native Issues
Suicide Prevention
Sharing Cultural Foods
Leadership
Teaching Tradition
Recognition of Student Tribal Rights
2024- 2025
NLC Sponsor - Ms. Krystalynn Scott
President: Abigail Hancock, Inupiaq
Vice President: Shaylee Andrew, Yup’ik
Secretary: Rose Xiong, Hmong
Treasurer: Arista Toolie, Inupiaq, Siberian Yup’ik
Media Specialist: Rebecca Simeonoff, Inupiaq Alutiiq
NLC Raises Awareness for Orange Shirt Day Monday, September 30th, 2024!
NPR: American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many
American Indians and the American government have lived with a harsh legacy for 130 years. The government took tens of thousands of Indian children far away from their reservations to schools where they were required to dress, pray, work and speak as
mainstream Americans. Many Indians remember those boarding schools as places where they were abused and where their culture was desecrated.
After years of reforms, the government still operates a handful of oK reservation
boarding schools, but funding is in decline, and now some Native Americans are fighting to keep the schools open. NPR's Charla Bear has the first of two reports.
Phyllis Webstad Orange Shirt Day Presentation
Orange Shirt day is an annual event held each September 30th in
remembrance of the Canadian Residential School system and the
impact of this government policy on First Nations.
Explore the latest research through this interactive map, which was created in partnership with the National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation. You can find information and locations for all 523
known Indian boarding schools in the United States, as well as known
Indian residential schools in Canada.
In June 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal
Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive eKort to recognize the
troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and to shed light on the traumas of the past.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is the first and only national organization whose purpose is to advocate on behalf of Native peoples impacted by U.S. Indian boarding school policies. We seek truth
through education and research, justice through activism and policy advocacy, and healing through programs and traditional gatherings.
NABS was created to develop and implement a national strategy that increases public awareness and cultivates healing for the profound trauma experienced by individuals, families, communities, American Indian and Alaska Native Nations resulting from the U.S. adoption and implementation of the Boarding
School Policy of 1869.
President: James Day
Vice President: Heather Oomituk
Secretary: Gregory Todd
Treasurer: Halitopa Farve
Lead Artist: Avasha Watson
Media Specialist: Jonet Bungay
Shaylee Andrew, Tikvah Barnes, Jonet Bungay, James Day, Halitopa Farve, Jordan Fuqua, Sarah Greenwald, Abigail Hancock, Heather Oomittuk, Gregory Todd, Avasha Watson, Rebecca Simeonoff, Dajah Stephens, Makari Swetzof
All students in pursuit of NLC's mission are eligible to run for officer positions. Positions are a school-year-long commitment.
EWE students are notified of NLC's opportunities through emails, morning bulletins, the EWE Community Meeting, the EWE Website, Bulletin Boards, Native News and Posters.
Students must self-nominate or accept a nomination to run for a position. Voting is done by secret ballot by NLC meeting attendees after all nominated students receive the opportunity to speak.
New Officers and the East High School community will be notified of the election results over the Morning Bulletin Monday, following the vote.
Tatiana Ticknor and Alton Smallwood, NLC Fundraiser volunteers and AJROTC students
Lorraine Gregory and Terry Johnson, Russian Jack Elementary NYO volunteers
Jasmyn Perez, Russian Jack Elementary Alutiiq Tag volunteers
Rochelle Dau, Russian Jack Elementary Akutaq volunteers
NLC Coordinates the Alaska Native and American Indian Heritage Month Activities at East!
EWE's December Traditional Gathering is a Community event, coordinated by Native Student Leadership Council members. Alaska Native and American Indian Dance, Drum and Song groups volunteer to perform, vendors sell their arts, and in 2019 EWE students performed and student artwork was on display!
Native Sisterhood Grand President
Alaska Native Civil Rights Leader
A member of the Lukaax̱.ádi clan, in the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation
2022: Students celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich by serving Akutaq to students and staff!