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Updated 2/4/11

Southeast Native Educators Association
A Chronology
Documented by Andy Hope

• The SEANEA originally organized in the summer of 1996 at a meeting funded by the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative and held in conjunction with Celebration 1996 in Juneau.
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv1i4.html
   
• The first slate of SEANEA officers were elected in the fall of 1996 at a meeting funded by AKRSI in Sitka.
   
• The SEANEA cosponsored a number of workshops, conferences and academic and professional development courses from 1996-2000; some highlights:
  Alaska Native Education Consortium meeting, Sitka, April 1997
  Axe Handle Academy seminar, UAS, Juneau, December 1997
  Southeast Alaska Native Language Consortium, February, May, August,
  October1998- February, April, May, September, October, and November 99.
  Many of these meetings also addressed tribal college planning.
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv5i1.html
  Indigenous Curriculum Development in Science, UAS Sitka, ED 697, August 1999
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv4i4.html
  Southeast Alaska Native Education Forum, Juneau, June 2000
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv5i4.html
   
• The SEANEA formally reorganized in January 2002 in a meeting funded by AKRSI and the Teacher Leadership Development Project (TLDP).
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv7i1.html
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv7i3.html
   
• SEANEA received funding from the National Science Foundation/Teacher Leadership Development Project to hire a lead teacher. This funding ran from early 2002 through the fall of 2004. Three people served in the position: Ted Wright (February-June, 2002), Angie Lunda (August 2002-June 2003) and Andy Hope (September 2003-August 2004). TLDP partners were Tlingit and Haida, Juneau School District, Sealaska Heritage Institute, the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) Southeast Alaska Intertribal College and University of Alaska Southeast/Preparing Indigenous Teachers for Alaska Schools (UAS/PITAS). DEED matched TLDP funding in the final two years of the project.
  
  The purpose of the TLDP was twofold: to build capacity for the Native educator associations in the respective cultural regions of Alaska, and to provide cultural orientation training for new teachers.
  
  TLDP funding was provided by the National Science Foundation, the Alaska DEED and UAS/PITAS.
  
  A highlight for the SEANEA was the cultural orientation course presented in the fall of 2002. A group of 15 new teachers from throughout southeast Alaska participated in this course. Another project partially funded by TLDP was the Southeast Alaska Tribal Resource Atlas. The atlas is packed with content: electronic tribal maps that includes Tlingit and Haida place names, Sheet'ká, Aangoon and K'éex' Kwáan atlases, the Traditional Tlingit Country and Tribes map (a listing of Tlingit tribes clans and clan houses) and the Herman Kitka Traditional Tlingit Ecological Knowledge series.
   
• In the summer of 2002, the PITAS program provided start up funding for development of the Place-Based Education Resources website, which is posted on the Alaska Native Knowledge Network website:
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/Curriculum/Tlingit/Salmon
   
• SEANEA cosponsored the UAS course, Math in Tlingit Art, ED 698, August-December 2003
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv8i4.html
   
• SEANEA sponsored a Native Scholarship Providers Forum, May 2004.
   
• SEANEA cosponsored the 5th Annual Academy for Culturally Responsive Schools, UAS,ED 613, June 2004
   
• SEANEA members elected the following officers and board members in early 2004:
  President: Roxanne Houston
  Vice-President: vacant
  Secretary: Rhonda Hickok
  Treasurer: Laurie Cropley
  Board Members:
  Dr. Ronn Dick
  Mary Jean Duncan
  Les Hamley
  Andy Hope
  Jean Jackson
  Rhoda Jensen
  Marie Olson
   
• SEANEA cosponsored a series of Native Education Forums, June-August 2004 in Juneau.
   
• In March 2005, the SEANEA Board established a $30 fee for SEANEA membership.
   
• SEANEA sponsored a Place-Based Education Academy (ED 193-493/CCS 697) at the UAS Campus, June 27-July 2, 2005.
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/sop/sopv10i2.html
   
• In December 2005, SEANEA incorporated as an Alaska non-profit corporation. Sean Topkok of the Alaska Native Knowledge Network posted a discussion board for SEANEA members.
   
• In April 2006, SEANEA members elected the following board members:
  Ron Dick
  Laurie Cropley
  Ishmael Hope
  Alan Hayton
  Marie Olson
  Ted Wright
  Lily Hudson
  Vivian Martindale
  Roby Littlefield
  Andy Hope
   
• In December 2006, the SEANEA board voted to cosponsor "Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tsimshian, Haida and Tlingit Tribes and Clans, March 21-25, 2007, Sitka, Alaska.
  http://ankn.uaf.edu//ANCR/Southeast/ClanConference/
   
• Also in December, the SEANEA board voted to provisionally reactivate the SE AK. Intertribal College and to cosponsor a series of Summer Institutes on Place Based Education. These institutes will take place in Sitka, Juneau and Seattle in June, July and August.
   
• In March 2007, SEANEA conducted a membership meeting in Sitka, in conjunction with the Sharing Our Knowledge conference.
   
• In April 2007, SEANEA members elected the following board members:
  Ron Dick
  Linda Kruger
  Roxanne Houston
  Alberta Jones
  Ishmael Hope
  Wilma Baines Chahim
  Roby Littlefield
  Richard Dauenhauer
  Nora Dauenhauer
  Vivian Martindale
  Andy Hope
   
• In April 2007, the SEANEA website was posted for the first time:
  http://ankn.uaf.edu/NPE/SEANEA/