In 1912, officially organized and developed the leadership of Southeast Alaska and for alaska natives out of that group. The alaska native brotherhood is where the nucleus of the native power was organized, where it was developed, and where the leadership came from. The alaska native brotherhood endorsed the statehood act. They wanted statehood because it would give them a larger voice, they felt, with representatives back in congress and better control and out from under the bias thumbs. People dont realize how federalized we were in rural alaska, the native community under the bia. Narrator former colonel and now delegate marvin muktuk marston had worked with governor gruening to enlist alaska natives into the territorial guard during world war ii. It was an Early Warning scout brigade to watch out for japanese landings on mainland alaska. Now he wanted alaska to recognize native land claims. Marston was, no doubt, the most eloquent and impassioned defender of what h were the best fo