An opportunity to do more than apologize: support planning for a native healing center in Kake AK

Alaska Friends Conference, one of 2 yearly meetings in Alaska, has come to unity on and has written an apology to Native Alaskans for Quakers’ part in running boarding schools for Native Alaskan and Native American children and for the harm this caused:  forcibly separating children from their families, communities, and culture and causing intergenerational harm.  AFC Friends presented this apology at the 2023 Summer Conference of Alaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Churches attended by Native Alaskans.  There, they learned that tribal leaders in the Organized Village of Kake, Alaska hope to turn a donated Forest Service building into a cultural treatment healing center.  By the end of October, 2023, the tribe needs money for a feasibility study and for insurance and suggested that white Quakers could donate money to meet this need.  This is an opportunity for reparation and the time is short. 

To donate to the healing center, please send a check made out to Alaska Friends Conference, PO Box 241732, Anchorage, AK 99524-1732 with "Kake" in the memo line.