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Tlingit Chilkat Blanket*
Charitable Contributions
Margaret Nelson believes in community partnerships and is committed to helping improve the quality of life for all Alaskans. Her contributions are usually in the areas of safety and social services, the arts, education and youth.
Her support goes beyond financial assistance, as evidenced by the number of personal hours that she contributes to health and social service and civic organizations throughout Alaska, and Anchorage in particular.
Please join Margaret Nelson in supporting the following organizations:
- Bean's Cafe, a place where the homeless can find food and shelter in Anchorage, Alaska;
- Kids Cafe, an organization that serves hungry children throughout Anchorage;
- Hospice of Anchorage, mental and physical support for terminally ill people and their families, Anchorage, Alaska;
- Abused Womens Aid In Crisis, a shelter for women escaping domestic violence, Anchorage, Alaska;
- UAF Alumni Foundation;
- Healing Hands Foundation, providing health care services through the SEARHC Consortium to the indigenous people of Southeast Alaska, Juneau, Alaska;
- United Way of Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska;
- Barrow Whaler Athletic Foundation, Barrow, Alaska;
- Mary Magdalene Center, supportive services for women, Anchorage, Alaska;
- Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage, Alaska; and
- Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
*Chilkat blankets were woven from mountain goat wool and cedar bark. They were the specialty of the Chilkat tribe of the Tlingit, whose territory was at the mouth of the Chilkat River in Southeast Alaska. This group refined the style to its highest level in the late nineteenth century, but it had initially been developed among the Tsimshian-speaking people who lived along the Skeena and Nass Rivers on the mainland and had easy access to mountain goats in their hunting territories.
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