2000-03-07                     Senate Journal                      Page 2541
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                            ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE                           
                   TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION                   
                                                                               
Juneau, Alaska                                                                 
                                                                               
                                Fifty-eighth Day                               
                                                                               
Pursuant to adjournment the Senate was called to order by President            
Pearce at 11:23 a.m.                                                           
                                                                               
The roll showed twenty members present.                                        
                                                                               
The prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Lay Reader Connie Munro                
of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Senator Hoffman moved and            
asked unanimous consent that the prayer be spread. Without                     
objection, it was so ordered.                                                  
                                                                               
May our prayer today, as we celebrate Womens                                  
History month, reflect on some Alaska Native                                   
Women leaders who gave us many blessings:                                      
                                                                               
Belle Herbert, Athabaskan Oral Historian, recorded                            
a century of life in the Black and Big River areas,                            
preserved at the Alaska Native Language Center.                                
                                                                               
Della Keats, Inupiaq Eskimo traditional Healer from                           
the Kotzebue area, using her hands to heal and                                 
many ancient methods, never accepting money for                                
her work.                                                                      
                                                                               
Maggie Lind, Yupik Eskimo Traditional Story                                   
Teller from Bethel. The University of Alaska in                                
Bethel dedicated the main building in her memory.                              
                                                                               
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, Tlingit Indian                               
Civil Rights Activist, a leader for the equal rights                           
for Native Alaskans. The Senate sponsored and                                  
passed Senate Bill No. 499 establishing February 16                            
as Elizabeth Peratrovich Day.                                                  
                                                                               
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