Wrangell’s Sandy Churchill was reelected president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand Camp at the organization’s annual convention.

The Alaska Native Brotherhood and ANS met Oct. 1-3 in Wrangell — where the ANS was founded in 1915. The ANB was founded in 1912 in Sitka.

Woodrow Watson of Saxman won election as ANB Grand Camp president at last month’s convention.

Harriet Miyasato Beleal, Sitka ANB Camp 1 Mother, reported that 10 ANB camps and five ANS camps attended the three-day convention. Communities represented included Wrangell, Ketchikan, Tenakee, Yakutat, Saxman, Sitka, Craig, Juneau, Anchorage and Seattle, she told the Daily Sitka Sentinel.

ANB/ANS members worked on more than 20 resolutions, the first of which requests that Alaska Native corporations, their subsidiaries and tribal business corporations begin the process of divesting from federal contracts related to immigrant detention.

NANA, the regional corporation for Northwest Alaska, has been criticized by some of its shareholders for its contract work to provide security services at federal detention centers.

Another Grand Camp resolution expresses opposition to any ballot measure that would repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska. Another resolution asks Gov. Mike Dunleavy to support state funding for public broadcasting.

ANB and ANS are nonprofit organizations formed to address discrimination and promote Native solidarity and equal rights.